Cantook by Aldiko 17+

Great reader!

Finally settled on this app after trying several others in an attempt to replace the awful default iOS reader. I have only used Aldiko to import my own epub books for reading so I can’t speak to its comic or audiobook capabilities, but for my purpose of simply reading books and being able to adjust the font size/color and background color it works beautifully. Easy 5 stars. However the app is not perfect, for example sometimes it will jump to a different page if I accidentally turn the phone to landscape mode and back again, which loses my reading place.

Good now, hopefully better in the future

The app overall works really well as it stands, but it is obvious it still needs some work before I works consider it a daily-driver. Searching through some OPDS catalogs (using both Kavita and Calibre) will often crash when downloading and not display the entire catalog. Moreover, I would love to see more customization options as well as features. PDF's for example have basically no options (would be nice to have option to display two pages at once). It would also be nice to have more format compatibility in regards to comics as well as manga (which doesn't seem to be supported at all). Lastly, OPDS-PS would be the icing on the cake, allowing for book streaming/syncing to an OPDS server would allow users to read a book on any device and keep progress synced without having to download anything

Developer Response ,

Hello,

Our next release targets specifically PDF, with new options to switch between scrolling/pagination, control the reading direction and use a dual page mode in landscape.

We'll look into both Kavita and Calibre but based on past experience, neither of them tend to stick closely to the OPDS specification, which might explain specific issues.

OPDS-PS falls into the same category as it's not really part of the OPDS specification.
Our plan is to build support for streaming comics through the Divina profile of the Readium Web Publication specification, which provides a lot more features than OPDS-PS but it should be possible to provide a bridge to OPDS-PS down the road as well.

Loves this app but recent update has caused some issues

I honestly love this app above all other epub reading apps i’ve found. however lately, whenever i leave my book, i find that when i open the book back up, it restarts the chapter which is really annoying and the app didn’t use to have that issue. i have to be more conscious about bookmarking my spot before leaving the book and the app lest it takes me back to the start of the chapter when i resume my reading. hopefully that gets fixed soon. other than that, i really love this app and i personally find it very easy to use.

Developer Response ,

Hello, you can contact us at help@demarque.com so we can look into this.

The Aldiko Team