I also very much liked the global search. You even have your choice of processors in case one XML parser works better than another. You can modify the defaults for page turning and even add an audio sound effect for the page turn and control the animation. Things like the text margins, interrow spacing and a light gradient applied to the page make for great customization. I liked the detailed control over the background, text size, font and color. As shipped, all the book styles are two-pages by default. It should be noted here that you have very good control over the basic style, but you may have to create a new or modify an existing style to achieve, say, a one-page book just how you want it. Once in a book, you can define several ways to view the book, either as a two page book or a single page notepad. You can also search by all of those properties in a “combo” search and you can control the sort method: ascending or descending. There you can sort by title, author, genre, last opened date and more. You can just open a document and read it or you can (non-destructively) import it into your library, shown as a wooden bookshelf. It tries to make the book reading experience as natural as possible thanks to the bookshelf metaphor and a very nice set of viewing options.īookReader is notable for the nuances and details. It has a lot of features, described in the comparison chart below, and will generally delight anyone who’s building a library of ebooks.
Released in July, 2010, it has had a chance to become fairly mature, and is now at version 3.8. However, none of the ebook readers for Mac will read DRM’d books, and the developer makes that very clear on the Mac App Store’s description page. This app looks so much like iBooks that some customers, in the past, thought that it might be able to view books purchased from Apple’s iBookstore and typically viewed on an iPad. It has an iBooks-like bookshelf with good sorting and searching options, and it can read documents in many standard formats, including. BookReader 3.8 for OS X is a mature, full-featured ebook reader for the Macintosh.
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