Best book app for iPad Pro?

[democrite]

I use Readle Documents/PDF Expert. It uses a side bar for both toc and search rwsukrs, and such is easy to navigate and search large documents with many search results. UI while reading is decent enough.

File search is not ideal, kinda buggy, and slow. As I use iCloud drive to sync with devices and macOS, an app that uses the default iCloud drive for file navigation would be ok. But none of them I've tried have such sidebars, making search cumbersome.

Readdle also supports basic EPUB reading.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

It depends on your needs, but I wouldn’t recommend BookFusion for either PDF or ePub.
BookFusion wants to be a jack-of-all-trades, but can't do anything right.
For PDF I also recommend GoodReader and for ePub MapleRead.

I'm using BookFusion for ePub and it's working well. But I would never use it for PDF.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Thanks, my bad.

Are Lithium, Pocketbook or Bluefire on iOS?

I don't know about Lithium, but Pocketbook and Bluefire are on iOS.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by democrite

I use Readle Documents/PDF Expert. It uses a side bar for both toc and search rwsukrs, and such is easy to navigate and search large documents with many search results. UI while reading is decent enough.

File search is not ideal, kinda buggy, and slow. As I use iCloud drive to sync with devices and macOS, an app that uses the default iCloud drive for file navigation would be ok. But none of them I've tried have such sidebars, making search cumbersome.

Readdle also supports basic EPUB reading.

Does Readdle respect the CSS?

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I'm using BookFusion for ePub and it's working well. But I would never use it for PDF.

For children's books for sure

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by democrite

I use Readle Documents/PDF Expert. It uses a side bar for both toc and search rwsukrs, and such is easy to navigate and search large documents with many search results. UI while reading is decent enough.

I have just tested PDF expert briefly

GoodReader is better for looking things up on the web, but the export of annotations is more eye candy in PE. Unfortunately, with longer annotations the text is shortened, the last few words are always missing.

[JSWolf]

You cannot read most eBooks from Overdrive with Books as it doesn't support the DRM needed.

[Wesmosis]

PDF expert

[Robin]

Here are some best apps,

Apple Books
Kindle
Audible
Goodreads
Libby
Google Play Books
Barnes & Noble Nook
Scribd
Kobo Books
OverDrive

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Robin

Here are some best apps,

Apple Books
Kindle
Audible
Goodreads
Libby
Google Play Books
Barnes & Noble Nook
Scribd
Kobo Books
OverDrive

Books is a lousy app. Audible is only good if you are going to pay for a subscription.

Goodreads is not for reading.

BookFusion is good. For PDF, Goodreader is the best.

I don't know how good most of those apps are as I've not used them.

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by betelguese

I checked BookFusion in the App Store and the description says "Integrated Reader - Read all your EPUB, PDF, & CBZ/CBR eBooks both online and offline with clean and intuitive interface .".
So isnt's BookFusion enough for PDF&EPUB? Why do you suggest GoodReader separately for PDF? Is there something wrong in the way BookFusion handles PDF's? Thanks

Developer here from BookFusion. Please do check us out for yourself and not rely on only the opinions of others. Some opinions are fair but some are unfortunately biased. Look at the reviews that we have in the App Store.

PDFs - We support rich highlights and annotations. Even image/area based highlights are supported that allows you to annotate images, tables and other non-text items. Let us know what other improvements you would like to see for PDFs we are open to feedback and more than likely have those changes planned if any.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by skillachie

Developer here from BookFusion. Please do check us out for yourself and not rely on only the opinions of others. Some opinions are fair but some are unfortunately biased. Look at the reviews that we have in the App Store.

PDFs - We support rich highlights and annotations. Even image/area based highlights are supported that allows you to annotate images, tables and other non-text items. Let us know what other improvements you would like to see for PDFs we are open to feedback and more than likely have those changes planned if any.

So far, I am liking BookFusion for reading ePub on my iPhone SE 2020.

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So far, I am liking BookFusion for reading ePub on my iPhone SE 2020.

Happy to hear. You mentioned you would not use BookFusion for PDF. Can you share with us some feedback where we fall short in our PDF reader? Would like to understand if it is just the ability to free draw or write(planned) that is missing or something more since.

Feel free to reply here or in our thread. Looking forward to learning more so we can improve this.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by skillachie

Happy to hear. You mentioned you would not use BookFusion for PDF. Can you share with us some feedback where we fall short in our PDF reader? Would like to understand if it is just the ability to free draw or write(planned) that is missing or something more since.

Feel free to reply here or in our thread. Looking forward to learning more so we can improve this.

If I really needed an app to deal with PDF other then just reading, I would use Goodreader.

I'm not a fan of eBook reading apps that also handle PDF. I just want the app to deal with ePub. I don't need the bloat needed to also handle PDF.

I would prefer if BookFusion was made for ePub only and the PDF functionality can be made into a separate app. Maybe call it PDFFusion as PDF is not an eBook format. The name BookFusion doesn't make any sense for PDF as it's not a book.

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If I really needed an app to deal with PDF other then just reading, I would use Goodreader.

I'm not a fan of eBook reading apps that also handle PDF. I just want the app to deal with ePub. I don't need the bloat needed to also handle PDF.

I would prefer if BookFusion was made for ePub only and the PDF functionality can be made into a separate app. Maybe call it PDFFusion as PDF is not an eBook format. The name BookFusion doesn't make any sense for PDF as it's not a book.

Thanks for getting back.

So this is more just a personal preference of wanting different functionalities in a separate app based on the way you read. Many technical books and textbooks are in PDF format.

If that is the only reason though, it is not fair to suggest not using BookFusion for PDF as it is not based on a lack of functionality that you found missing just that you prefer to keep PDF and EPUB formats in different apps.

Alright, well no steps we can actionable take from the feedback at this time besides the items we had plan to add support for.