Talk:Comparison of iOS e-reader software
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Why are two the most downloaded and used e-book reader software apps for iOS excluded?
The Barnes & Noble Nook and Google's Google Books reader apps for iOS have been available for years, are very feature rich and are as ubiquitous if not more so than any of the other software/apps for iOS listed, excepting the iOS reader which is bundled to the OS and cannot be removed w/o replacing the authorized firmware. I cannot help but suspect some agenda at work here as such an oversight would be impossible to make by anyone even mildly familiar with the topic they have chosen to edit on WP. Thistledowne (talk) 16:51, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
- There's no "hidden agenda" or anything. Feel free to add them. This is Wikipedia, you can edit the article and I appreciate any help. :-) Philantrop (talk) 21:42, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Suggestions for new columns / criteria
What about Ibis Reader and readMe -- do you think we should be including these? —HPG (talk), 13:07, 2011-01-01 (UTC)
- Most certainly, yes! The more, the merrier - if they're notable. I simply didn't add them because I didn't know about them till yesterday. —Philantrop (talk) 20:07, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Suggestions for new columns / criteria — DONE
Maybe we should have a column for "Import Method" (Dropbox, email, etc.) and a column for "In-app Book Deletion". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Broberds (talk • contribs) 19:03, 24 October 2011
- Good idea. As part of "import method", we should definitely list Calibre, which seems to be the most commonly-mentioned grievance for apps that don't do it.
- Under "Display features", what about adding "Customize paragraph space"?— Preceding unsigned comment added by HPG (talk • contribs) 01:27, 25 October 2011
- Basically, "Import method" should be specified in Book source management features, I think. If there's a very common method, we could add a column for it. If it's less common, a "Miscellaneous" column and listing the methods in one of its cells would be nice, wouldn't it?
- "In-app Book Deletion" certainly sounds like a good idea but is there any reader out there not allowing that? Even the Kindle app allows for "archiving" ebooks which, due to its nature, is, IMHO, similar to deletion.
- The import method "Calibre" would be OPDS or its Bonjour/Zeroconf feature or both?
- "Customize paragraph space" sounds good to me! Adding a column is really simple - add a line both in the header and footer listing of table columns and the corresponding line for the values. Here's the corresponding Help page. —Philantrop (talk) 04:56, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Yes, believe it or not, Kobo doesn't let you delete books except through iTunes. It was my favorite until I found that out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Broberds (talk • contribs) 12:19, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- Oh, that's really weird. I've added that as a note among the Special features for Kobo. (Btw, you can sign your comments by writing four tilde characters.) —Philantrop (talk) 16:46, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
I know its not nearly as important as other features but the price CAN be an important criteria for some. 58.6.192.218 (talk) 09:26, 31 October 2011 (UTC)barns_from_oz
- I agree. The problem with adding it here, though, is that the price can change at any time. Thus, I don't think it would be a good idea to add it. —Philantrop(talk) 13:20, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
- I think there is still an argument to record price. I am impressed by the scope and breadth of these tables, and think they an important contributor, without value judgements, to those who seek to compare eReaders. On the other hand, wikis like that are exactly the way to store data that CAN change; and in truth iPhone apps prices tend to change slowly. Further they almost never go up, only down. For those who use price as a criterion - and doubtless many people do - this is as good a place to record it as any?58.6.192.218 (talk) 13:59, 31 October 2011 (UTC)bdc_from_oz
- Ok, I checked and there's precedent for adding AppStore prices so I added a table for that. —Philantrop (talk) 15:07, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
- WP:NOTCATALOG, point 5 recommends against adding prices and the criteria mentioned there make a lot of sense. Thus, I've removed the corresponding section from the artice. Philantrop (talk) 12:55, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
- Ok, I checked and there's precedent for adding AppStore prices so I added a table for that. —Philantrop (talk) 15:07, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
- I think there is still an argument to record price. I am impressed by the scope and breadth of these tables, and think they an important contributor, without value judgements, to those who seek to compare eReaders. On the other hand, wikis like that are exactly the way to store data that CAN change; and in truth iPhone apps prices tend to change slowly. Further they almost never go up, only down. For those who use price as a criterion - and doubtless many people do - this is as good a place to record it as any?58.6.192.218 (talk) 13:59, 31 October 2011 (UTC)bdc_from_oz
Suggestion from MobileRead Forums: "Please add a column on whether the app can display two pages in landscape. I know iBooks and Kindle can, and Bluefire and Kobo cannot. Nook on the iPad gives you the option." Philantrop (talk) 16:55, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Which readers spy on you?
It would be nice if this article indicated whether e-book readers spy on your reading (for example, reporting what you're reading and what page you're on to a central server). The Kindle reader does this; which other readers do so? Gdr 09:59, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- Well, "spying" is rather subjective and, thus, not a good term for wikipedia. I've added a new column in the "Navigation features" table, though, called "Cloud Synchronisation" to specify whether reading positions, bookmarks, etc. are being synchronised remotely which is, I presume, what you mean. (Personally, I find this feature highly useful, YMMV.)—Philantrop (talk) 19:30, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Consider re-adding
I added Snapplify after independent research and see it has been removed citing no independent sources, the Snapplify wikipedia page that I compiled has an extensive list of independent sources and mentions of its use and users. No self-promotion is evident, and it helps to show the comparisons of currently available iOS eReader software (which it seems is the purpose of this page). Contact me on my talk page if you would like to discuss this. LAJ007 (talk) 09:38, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Proposed changes
I would like to add the Ebook Reader app to the article, under the eBookMobi row. It would have the following information.
Table 'Navigation features': Product: Ebook Reader, Pagination: Yes, Rotation Lock: Yes, Auto-scroll: No, Progress indicator: In library and in-book, Backward/forward: Yes, Table of Contents: Yes, Bookmarks: Unlimited, Resume: Yes, Cloud Synchronisation: Yes, Go To: Yes, Full text search: Yes
Table 'Display features': Product: Ebook Reader, Multi-column mode: No, Styles (bold/italic/etc.): Yes, Page Turn Effects: Yes, Themes: No, Day/Night Mode: Yes, Enable/Disable sleep mode: No (Disabled by default), Brightness control: Yes, Indent Paragraph: No, Enable/Disable CSS: No, Enable/disable Hyphenation: No, Customize margins: No, Customize text alignment: No, Customize font: Yes, Customize spacing: line/paragraph: No
Table 'Edit/tool features': Product: Ebook Reader, Highlight: Yes, Annotate: Yes, Edit Meta-data: No, Online dictionary: No, Offline dictionary: No, Lookup Wikipedia: No, Translate: No, Share: Facebook, Twitter, eMail, Google+, TTS support: No, DRM support: Adobe DRM, Export to iTunes: Yes
Table 'Book source management features': Product: Ebook Reader, Book store(s): No, Book Search: No, In-app Epub import: Yes, Import via in-app browser: No, OPDS catalog: No, Other import via: Built-in web server, Tag books: Yes, Sort books: Yes
Table 'Supported File Formats': Product: Ebook Reader, total # of formats: 2, then No in all columns, except Yes for .epub and .pdf
Table 'License': Product: Ebook Reader, Free: Yes
Table 'Special features': Product: Ebook Reader, Special Features: Full Epub3 support for in-book audio and video. Online sync of all bookmarks, highlights, notes and reading position. Import DRM free PDF and Epub files. User created collections for organizing books.