MapleRead SE 17+

EPUB+PDF reader+server

Maplepop LLC

    • 3.8 • 17 Ratings
    • $9.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

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 minus PDF reader and our unique zero-configuration Library Server.
- CX is CE with some limitation.
- 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 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 cloud.
- It syncs reading positions, notes, vocab and bookmarks (but not the books).
- 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.

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.

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What’s New

Version 5.4.1

- Fix regression bugs

Ratings and Reviews

3.8 out of 5
17 Ratings

17 Ratings

Weaver847536 ,

Robust iOS Ebook Reader

Since Marvin hasn’t been updated in years and is slowly decaying Maple Read has become my goto ebook reader, particularly for ePub, and I am transferring my iOS ePub library from Marvin -> Maple Read.

The big name reader apps, eg Kindle and Apple Books, are absolutely atrocious and designed to aggressively push app-specific paid content rather than providing a pleasant reading experience and ebook management system. So whenever possible I dispense with the DRM and use Maple Read which is really the only useable iOS ebook reading app that is still updated regularly (RIP Marvin and KyBooks).

No major complaints re performance and features but more bulk metadata editing options would be really really useful!

adaptsj ,

no longer working after update

I use this app for cookbooks but after the recent update there are many pages missing from books with many subchapters and the search function never leads me to the right place. This app was great but now it’s not really usable. Please fix!

Developer Response ,

Could you send us one such cookbook to help diagnosis? In the meanwhile, please try reading in Modern Scroll view, and see if it helps.

millerrdee ,

Overall good, but two strong suggestions to the developers

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.

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