BookFusion eBook Reader & Management Sync Across All Devices Android, iOS & Web

[culytera]

Originally Posted by skillachie

Font size gets or ridden automatically when you try to increase or decrease the font size by clicking the Big A or Small a buttons. Do you have an issue changing the font size with an EPUB?

Yes, one of the pages on a test EPUB has specified font-sizes in its css (font-size: 2.5vmax etc), so BookFusion was only able to increase or decrease its current font size instead of making the font size for all text in the EPUB the same. Not a big deal though, I was able to make a workaround by setting font-size: inherit in specific media queries for that page's elements.

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by culytera

Yes, one of the pages on a test EPUB has specified font-sizes in its css (font-size: 2.5vmax etc), so BookFusion was only able to increase or decrease its current font size instead of making the font size for all text in the EPUB the same. Not a big deal though, I was able to make a workaround by setting font-size: inherit in specific media queries for that page's elements.

Ok. Happy that you found a workaround.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by skillachie

New Fixed Layout EPUB Reader

We have now released a new and fully EPUB 3 compliant reader for fixed layout based EPUBs.

• EPUB 2 & EPUB 3 Support
• Zoom
• Bookmarks
• Highlights
• Search
• Settings (brightness, lock rotation, rtl)
• Support for spreads in fixed layout book

Improvement & Fixes

1. Progress % calculation bug
2. Fix sign in on tablets in landscape
3. Improve the offline mode detection and switch
4. Media overlays audio covers next audio with autoplay mode
5. Fix for pages that are scrolled incorrectly for RTL mode
6. Text alignment icons should be in different colors

NOTE: We just got a report that the switch to offline mode needs some more refinement and this will come in the next release. If you still have issues please reach out to us. This was resolved for most users in this release.

The latest update can be found in the Play Store. Thanks again for all the support and please do continue to reach out to us with feedback and suggestions to help us build your ideal reading platform.

What about iOS?

[JSWolf]

I have an issue with the top/bottom margins on iOS? The margins are too large and they cannot be made smaller. If the margins could be made smaller, there's a chance that I
'd get one more line. If there has to be blank space, I prefer it to be at the bottom and not divided evenly between top/bottom.

So allow us to adjust the top/bottom margins so they can be eliminated and then adjusted in very tiny increments from there.

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What about iOS?

This is already supported in iOS. iOS is ahead of Android in terms of features and releases. We however, just released this for iOS https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=118

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I have an issue with the top/bottom margins on iOS? The margins are too large and they cannot be made smaller. If the margins could be made smaller, there's a chance that I
'd get one more line. If there has to be blank space, I prefer it to be at the bottom and not divided evenly between top/bottom.

So allow us to adjust the top/bottom margins so they can be eliminated and then adjusted in very tiny increments from there.

Margins should have already been maxed to use up all spaces. Will double check and reach out if needed. It has nothing with just slightly decreasing the text size to use up the small space? A screenshot of even a random book would help and the your device model

[skillachie]

Which of the features would you like to see next in iOS? Give your input at https://survey.survicate.com/8132516...f/?p=anonymous

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by skillachie

Margins should have already been maxed to use up all spaces. Will double check and reach out if needed. It has nothing with just slightly decreasing the text size to use up the small space? A screenshot of even a random book would help and the your device model

My iPhone is an iPhone SE 2020. Here is a screen grab showing the excess space at the top and bottom. You can see the extra space at the top of the screen. That doesn't need to be there. Also, there is some margin at the bottom preventing one more line.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by skillachie

Which of the features would you like to see next in iOS? Give your input at https://survey.survicate.com/8132516...f/?p=anonymous

Other then swipe for brightness, all the other features I would put down as don't want.

What I would like is Adobe Digital Editions page numbers and options top/bottom margins with customizable content. So I can see how much longer there is in the chapter and how much longer in the book. But the page numbers need to be ADE style.

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

My iPhone is an iPhone SE 2020. Here is a screen grab showing the excess space at the top and bottom. You can see the extra space at the top of the screen. That doesn't need to be there. Also, there is some margin at the bottom preventing one more line.

Thank you. Margins now go to 0 in the latest release. Could you take it for a spin and let us know.

[skillachie]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Other then swipe for brightness, all the other features I would put down as don't want.

What I would like is Adobe Digital Editions page numbers and options top/bottom margins with customizable content. So I can see how much longer there is in the chapter and how much longer in the book. But the page numbers need to be ADE style.

Got it, I understand your preferences. The current results will be shared in the post coming today. As you will see we try to prioritize based on the requests that have the most votes. Currently only 1 reader requested Adobe Digital Editions page numbers so far so we would take a while to have that one implemented. However, we previously got feedback for customization of the top and bottom margins and once we complete 5/6 of the items in the survey we will then be able to move to that tasks with another set of votes using the additional feedback or requests.

[skillachie]

New

• Text to Speech(TTS) now supported for PDFs – You can now use TTS with not just EPUBs but PDFs as well.
  
• Text Selection Context Menu now scrollable to include - Search, Translation, Web Lookup, Share, Speak & Start TTS. You can now easily listen, translate, share and web search selected text. **Translate requires Google Translate to be installed to be used.
  
• Highlights & Annotation for Comics – Now for the first time you can easily make highlights and annotations to share the favorite scenes of your comics.
  
• Display titles in bookshelf across two lines
• Allow margins to go to 0 for EPUBs
• Display book size information on book details screen
• New Upload API – faster and more efficient uploads

Fixes & Improvements

• Display actual height of images for area/image highlights
• Annotations with watermarked PDF
• TTS fixes
• Image/Area selection fixes
• Support displaying books for libraries with no curated lists
• Improve updating currently reading section. No more deleted books cache
• Fixed page flipping bug in two column mode
• Add name of author to the index for offline search
• Show local books in series and bookshelves
• Fixes for vertical mode
  

Survey Results - The next feature/improvement you want for iOS


We recently asked our fellow readers to chime in on the next set of features on Reddit. We got over 55 responses. A big thank you to all that participated. Please see the results below:



As you can see, most readers want custom tap zones/area with the other features being prioritized after that. We are now entering the UI/UX phase of the top 3 items on this list and then will have them scheduled for development shortly. We will target completing 5/6 of these items along with our current roadmap and then reach out to the community again to prioritize the next set of mostly requested features/improvements. There were a few comments with additional requests made that we would have liked to follow up on but were not able to since we did not collect emails, as a result we will ask for your email(optional) in the next survey to allow us to connect and better understand the feedback.

The latest update can be found in the App Store at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookfusion/id1141834096 . Thanks again for all the support and please do continue to reach out to us with feedback and suggestions to help us build your ideal reading platform.

You can check the update that includes video snippets of the new features at https://www.reddit.com/r/BookFusion/...ext_selection/

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by skillachie

Thank you. Margins now go to 0 in the latest release. Could you take it for a spin and let us know.

Yes, it is working. Thanks.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by skillachie

Display book size information on book details screen

IMHO, that's not useful at all because the size of the eBook file does not give any information on how long it is. The only information that would work is Adobe Digital Editions page numbers. Once you get used to them as an indicator of how long a book is then you know about the length of the book. The screen showing page numbers based on how many screens is useless because the screen is a completely different size to my Kobo Libra 2. Also, I mostly read ePub with RMSDK and because of this, it helps make it a lot easier to sync. Also, thje Count Page plugin for calibre can generate ADE page numbers. So because of this, you get to learn about the length of the book.

I know it's not much asked for. But that's because a lot of people don't know how useful ADE page numbers really are because they read KePub or on a (gasp!) Kindle.

Oh and please do not be like the Marvin author saying he'll get to it and never did.

[vikarti]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

IMHO, that's not useful at all because the size of the eBook file does not give any information on how long it is. The only information that would work is Adobe Digital Editions page numbers. Once you get used to them as an indicator of how long a book is then you know about the length of the book. The screen showing page numbers based on how many screens is useless because the screen is a completely different size to my Kobo Libra 2. Also, I mostly read ePub with RMSDK and because of this, it helps make it a lot easier to sync. Also, thje Count Page plugin for calibre can generate ADE page numbers. So because of this, you get to learn about the length of the book.

I know it's not much asked for. But that's because a lot of people don't know how useful ADE page numbers really are because they read KePub or on a (gasp!) Kindle.

Oh and please do not be like the Marvin author saying he'll get to it and never did.

It would be nice to have "custom" version. Just get settings from Count Pages plugin on sync.