MapleRead is dedicated to enable unique audio-visual reading experience for everyone.
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Our MapleRead app family has 3 members, namely SE, CE and CX.
- SE is our flagship product with all features.
- CE is SE without PDF reader and built-in Library Server.
- CX is CE with some limitation. Free to try.
- No recurring subscription fees. No ads. Just buy it once. Gratuity optional.
- Moreover, SE and CE can be run side-by-side via split-view multitasking.
- Recommend SE for use on multiple devices with easy and fast book sharing via Library Server.
- Recommend the SE-CE bundle for the best value.
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MapleRead includes a superb audio-visual EPUB e-book reader.
- It lets you easily modify publisher's original book style to better suit your aesthetic taste.
- It lets you instantly generate pseudo audiobooks with a choice of narrator voices over 40 languages.
- It enables immersion reading so that you may read and listen to the same book in sync.
- Background listening works well too. Compatible with Lock Screen Music Player and CarPlay.
MapleRead UI is friendly to users of all ages.
- Books can be read in regular and large print.
- A choice of UI text sizes makes reading in non-book views much more comfortable.
MapleRead is a great learning tool.
- It lets you look up words, translate sentences, search text, highlight text and write notes.
- It helps you collect vocabulary and organize notes with various priorities.
- It provides hooks to user-defined dictionaries, translators, and other tools.
- Immersion reading improves your comprehension, especially of foreign-language books.
MapleRead is an effective and fast library management tool.
- It is designed for you, a book lover, who may own a huge and/or growing book collection.
- It lets you keep all your books in one place and well-organized automatically.
- It lets you display your books elegantly in style.
- It lets you easily repair individual book metadata.
- If supports multiple book sets and multiple tags.
- It offers multiple ways to import and export books, and works well with Calibre.
MapleRead supports secure sync across devices via MapleRead Cloud and iCloud.
- It syncs reading positions, notes, vocab, bookmarks, and book set membership (but not the books).
- It syncs reading positions additionally via iCloud for even better user experience.
- It enables web access to synced data via web browsers from desktop and mobile devices.
MapleRead offers unprecedented user-defined customization options.
- They include unlimited user-defined fonts, book themes, cover images and library scenes.
- Each book theme includes various types of user-defined highlight colors.
- Each book can have its own theme, and each EPUB book can have its own style.
MapleRead SE includes also a great PDF e-book reader.
- The PDF reader looks very similar to the EPUB reader for a sense of unified UI.
MapleRead SE has a zero-configuration Library Server for easy book sharing.
- All books in Library can be shared.
- Smart batch download makes transferring of multiple books very convenient.
[For more technical details, screenshots, FAQ and reviews, please visit our website.]
Overall good, but two strong suggestions to the developers
millerrdee
First off, I like the app overall. I use it with my Calibre library and it works great. I have on occasion used the server function also but not that often. The interface is good but the tagging and organizing of the books in the app is definitely not intuitive. I have done a lot of Human interface design in my career and am confident that with a little work this part of the interface could be greatly improved. My biggest issue is the cloud sync. It doesn’t really fit what I would consider a typical use case for the app. The scenario it needs to handle is ‘the user has been reading a book on their iPad. They head out of the house without the iPad and find they have some time on their hands so they go to their iPHone and pull up the book, but it isn’t synced to their last position because they didn’t consider syncing the book on the iPad the last time they put it down’. Simple solution is to support auto cloud sync. It could be a user preference, but the book position would be updated whenever an appropriate event occurred - e.g., every 15 minutes, when the iPad is put in sleep mode, when the book is closed and another is open. I’m sure there are other events that would also make sense.
Kick's Apple Books App's Digital Butt
DaBoo22
There aren't enough words to describe how much i hate the Apple Books App. What a piece of trash. Maple read SE is complicated but such an improvement. I can see my important books and documents on the first page and set up my very own tags. What a revolution! And thanks for eschewing the subscription model. That doesn't wash with me.Having said that: DUDE you need to learn how to design a GUI.
Developer Response
Regarding your comment about a unified "Annotations" view — a place where all highlights and notes across a book can be seen together, we think this feature has been available for years. Please visit www.maplepop.com, and look at Overview | Organize & Search Notes. You may also contact us by email if you need more help.
Extraordinarily practical
haroldbasset
This is the ideal book reader for epubs and the most useful I have encountered for PDFs.
Worst UI Ever.
Asgard Studios
Such a terrible app. Unintuitive, clunky, and does not work as expected. Total waste of money. Very disappointed.
This is a major release.
- Add optional per-book EPUB style and theme
- Add optional per-book PDF theme
- Add Page Layout EPUB style parameters for Modern Scroll viewer
- Fine-tune Page Layout EPUB style parameters for Modern Book viewer
- Polish EPUB toolbar, menu, setting UI including new icons
- Polish PDF toolbar, menu, setting UI including new icons
- Add a draggable floating view in Library for the last-opened book
- Add Reverse Sort option in Library views
- Add OPDS Prefer menu to single book (vs batch) download view
- Be more fault-tolerant in handling some malformed EPUB 3 books
- Make other minor enhancement
- Fix bugs
Version 7.0
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