tiReader: eBook Reader

To ad: how do i remove page animation?

Themes are broken in this app. It says you can set colors for all the elements, like text and background, and the preview shows that…. But the background color for text is stuck at white. Changing it in the interface has no effect. So try to create a “night reading mode” with white text on a black background, and you get white text on a WHITE BACKGROUND. Useless. Hasn’t been fixed in years, so obviously this app is abandoned.

I have used this app since it came out, except for the last two years. At that time I became sick and until recently wasn’t reading anything. So now I’m back to reading and went to TiReader to read some books. According to the app, I have no books. According to my iPhone and computer connection I have over 100, but can’t access them. I tried to reach out to the developer at the contact us address and got a message that it’s not a good address. I tried twice, same story. At this time I’d say don’t buy the app. They haven’t updated it in years so I guess they don’t care about the app or their customers. It’s a shame as it was the best book reader out there.

This reader does not have fullscreen function on iPad mini 6. When reading a PDF, particularly on smaller devices such as iPad mini, every inch of the screen matters.

I have pretty much tried them all and this is the best. First off, you can adjust your page to exactly where you want it and make it the default so every book opens that way. Also, when you read in landscape mode each page is numbered (as opposed to Apple’s reader which assigns one number to both pages.) The bookmarks are easy to add and delete, the page turn animation is cool, and I appreciate the ease at which you can find and add books. I’d stop your search for an ebook reader right here.

Two flaws for my process and needs: First, and relatively minor, it doesn't adjust a cover image to fit, resulting in part of the image being cut off at the bottom. (The image is fine in my usual and perfect ereader, Marvin. (But Marvin isn't in the App Store anymore so I have to find possible replacements.)) Fatal flaw: does not have true author sort, where the list becomes a list of authors and one taps an author to see all five billion of their short stories. (I subscribe to an author's Patreon; I have a lot of short stories which need to have covers, and need to not fill up the space when scrolling around. I also get fanfic epubs from AO3; I don't want to scroll through 50 fics from a prolific author when I'm looking for something!) I'll leave it on my phone and see if it updates to something I can use, but also I'm gonna keep looking.

Thank you for an excellent reader. It’s got what I was looking for that others do not have - table of contents and ability to click on links. And it’s free and no ads!

Unable to change background color. Even for a sample book.

Pros: -It allows for books to be organized into collections—should be basic for ebook apps, but sadly isn’t…. -Page movement animations are enjoyable without being showy/distracting. Cons: -You can’t transfer multiple ebook files from the Files app at once, which makes for tedious transfers of books, one at a time. -Every time you transfer books to the app, it posts an annoying popup that asks if you want to read the book, which only slows down the transferring of books that much more. -You can’t transfer books directly to the in-app collection that you have open, but they instead transfer to the main page, which means more tedious moving of books. -Limited settings options compared to other ebook apps. I like the app, but it’s pretty clear the developer hasn’t done the due-diligence and tried to use the app themselves in a practical way, as if they did they’d notice these annoyances and do something about them.

There’s a bug where sometimes when I try to scroll or move a page on a pdf, it will automatically recenter the pdf back to the top after I let go making it impossible for me to read it. This happens randomly, and closing and reopening the app doesn’t help. This app would be perfect if not for this bug.