ShuBook 2M app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 6288 ratings )

Productivity Book Education
Developer: Ambibma Ltd.

5.99 USD

Current version: 3.3.2, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 18 Dec 2014
App size: 5.26 Mb

ShuBook 2M is an OPDS and Calibre friendly book reader and organizer.

■ READING BOOKS

①　Read DRM-free and password-free books of 3 fluid-layout formats and 5 fixed-layout formats

②　Read fluid-layout formats (EPUB, TXT, UPDB) in horizontal page-turning mode

③　Read fixed-layout formats (PDF, RTF, DOC, XLS, PPT) in vertical page-scrolling mode

④　Read in both portrait and landscape orientation

⑤　Long press on text to lookup built-in dictionary, read aloud, and copy

⑥　Sync book reading progress via AirDrop and email

⑦　Support all compatible iPhone and iPad models at native screen resolution

⑧　Provide an option to auto-reopen last book read at the page you left off for fluid-layout formats and fixed-layout formats

For fluid-layout formats:

①　Customize various layout parameters (font family, font size, text alignment, page margin, paragraph indentation, paragraph spacing, line spacing, letter spacing, hyphenation) and apply color themes

②　Import unlimited number of user font files (TTF, TTC, OTF) via AirDrop, DropBox, Safari, Mail

③　Provide 16 built-in eye-pleasing color themes and 3 customizable color themes, where you can control background, text, heading and link colors

④　Jump to any page quickly and precisely via page slider with an unobtrusive reading progress line at the bottom of the page

⑤　Offer Night mode and brightness control by vertical swipe to complement iOS system brightness control via Control Center

⑥　Perform fast full text search and automatically save recent searches

⑦　Save an unlimited number of bookmarks per book

⑧　Long press on text to lookup built-in dictionary, read aloud, copy, search (and correct for UPDB)

■ MANAGING BOOKS

①　Manage easily thousands of books in Library

②　Group books by titles, authors, tags, and clusters with reading progress display

③　Group books by authors hierarchically in Library allowing multiple authors per book

④　Group books by tags hierarchically in Library allowing multiple tags per book

⑤　Group books by clusters hierarchically in Library allowing adding/removing/editing of clusters and re-ordering of clusters and their books

⑥　Search books in Library by title or author, or with help of the index bar

⑦　Edit book info, including title, author, tags and book cover image, for which you can choose from Album and online sources

■ GETTING BOOKS IN AND OUT

①　Provide convenient access to millions of free ebooks from multiple sources (HTML websites and OPDS catalogs), including Dropbox and websites you input

②　Perform TXT encoding auto-detection and TXT Smart Break after download/import of TXT files

③　Support downloading tags of books from OPDS catalogs

④　Smart batch download from calibre (and other OPDS servers on LAN) with an option to skip downloading books that are already in Library

⑤　Support iTunes File Sharing to import and export books

⑥　Send and receive books by email

Pros and cons of ShuBook 2M app for iPhone and iPad

ShuBook 2M app good for

Update 2 : All the bugs i reported have been fixed. Many thanks to the support team ! I upgraded the app to 4.5* The only thing i am missing is that the series information from calibre is automatically moved to the label field. Update : I am in contact with the support regarding both bugs and changed the rating from 2* to 3* since work in the issues has started .... I have used the original app for some years and really like it. So i decided to buy the new version. Unfortunately it still is buggy : migrating my library from old to new app did not work. The app crashed while creating the migration files. I had to manually import mymbooks. A second bug occurs when scrolling in booklist - sometimes the app crashes.

It supports all the file types I have in my calibre database. It can download all books at once or all of a special group. It can export the books to other apps in case I want to do some mark up. Many settings. Great customer service with quick and helpful answers. Recommended!!

Some bad moments

Love shu books. The best reading app I have used. Like being able to change background to make it easier to read at night. Thanks

Overall, an improvement over the previous version. Not sure its worth the full upgrade cost, since not much has been added. More polished, yes. Cleaner, yes. The selection feature is significantly improved. The new version uses native 6/6+ resolution. Those improvements are a big plus, but perhaps not worth the full version bump. The system brightness control is gone; now its just a grey overlay. I miss the system brightness. Of course, Control Center makes changing system brightness from within apps possible, so that feature may have outlived its usefulness. I still miss it. The developer continues to be very responsive -- my last support email got a helpful and thorough answer within about 3 hours.

I love this app it has saved me more time and energy and very easy to use only problem is io9 hopefully will be up and running soon because I hate using apples books app

I absolutely love Shubook. After Stanza was killed off I tried many apps that left me disappointed. Shubook is hands down the best and gets better with every update. The tagging system from Calibre now automatically sorts in Shubook. If you have a ton of books like I do this is a lifesaver.

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