Booklover - comic/ebook reader

Book | Comics | Utilities

iOS

Booklover is a highly responsive ebook reader with rich user interface.

This app opens DRM-free ebooks in CBZ/ZIP, CBR/RAR and PDF file formats. Best for reading comics or scanned books.

* Characteristics

1. Powerful metadata-driven library management - Organize, find, and enjoy your books without folders
• Apply metadata to your books: Title, Author, Genre, Date Published, Publisher, ISBN code, and others
• Auto-extract metadata from filename of books - Extract strings enclosed in brackets as metadata automatically
• Search/Sort/filter books flexibly by different criteria
• Add arbitrary Tags to a book for filtering

2. Library that makes your books look beautiful and organized
• Auto crop wide-sized book covers
• "Responsive Shadow" - Unique feature that renders thick books thick, thin ones thin (ON/OFF)
• Section books by genre (ON/OFF)
• Alphabetical index labels to locate a book quickly (ON/OFF)
• Side Menu to filter books by Reading Status, Star, Genre and Tag
• HUD overlay to display various attributes of books (Grid View, ON/OFF)
• Quick access to books via History List (Added/Opened)

3. Reading View to maximize immersion into the contents
• Book Settings Menu instantly accessible to change various settings of the book (ON/OFF)
• "Tilt Flip" - Tilt the device to navigate to the next/prev page
• Page Slider for fast book navigation, with larger page snapshots
• Quickly close a book by swiping up the screen (ON/OFF)

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* Main Features

[General]
• View contents of DRM-free ebook (CBZ/ZIP, CBR/RAR, PDF)
• Exclude/Include book files from the iTunes/iCloud backup target
• Universal Application
• Hardware keyboard shortcuts (Reading View)
• Add book files via iTunes File Sharing
• AirDrop / "Open-in"
• Passcode Lock / Touch ID
• Download files from cloud storage services (Needs an app provided by the cloud storage service providers)
• "Give My Regards to Black Jack" Vol. 1-13 (ON/OFF with the switch in the Side Menu)

[Library]
• Grid/List Views
• Side Menu (from the button at the top-left, or by swiping to right)
• History Lists (Added/Opened books)
• Longpress-to-show options for a book (Grid View)
• Swipe-to-show options for a book (List View)
• Section books by Genre (ON/OFF)
• HUD overlay (Grid View, ON/OFF)
• Search / Filter / Sort books
• "Responsive Shadow" / Shadow rendering settings

[Book Management]
• Add/Edit metadata to a book
• Auto-extract metadata from PDF file (ON/OFF)
• Auto-extract metadata from filename / Extraction settings
• Ignore specified leading articles on sorting (ex. The, A, An)
• Book Info View to show/edit book attributes
• Auto/Manual crop book cover
• Reading status / Star
• Change Page-progression-direction
• Edit filename
• Add/Remove/Edit Tags to a book

[Reading View]
• "Tilt Flip" - Double tap and hold then tilt the device to navigate to the next/prev page
• Book Settings Menu
• Double page spread display in landscape orientation
• Split wide page content in portrait orientation
• Change page content sizing (Show All/Width-Fit/Height-Fit)
• Trim page margins
• Change background color
• Browse related info about the book/author
• Page Slider with large page snapshots
• Brightness Slider with Night Mode
• Auto-correct page neighboring of double-page spread
• Page-Shift Button
• Close book by swiping up the screen
• "Cover Art Preview"
• Image Correction Filters (Enhance Contrast, Manual Contrast Adjustment, Greyscale, Invert Colors)

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* Acknowledgments

[Books included in the app]
• "Give My Regards to Black Jack" by SHUHO SATO (Manga on Web: http://mangaonweb.com)

[Books used in the movie and screenshots]
• JAEGIR: STRIGOI (WRITER:GORDON RENNIE/ARTIST:SIMON COLEBY) 2000AD
• Public domain books from Feedbooks (http://www.feedbooks.com)