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Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by mintplant »

dombili wrote: post #8

This looks really good. I'm not reading anything epub length on my phone but if I were, I'd give this a shot. Big thumbs up for a great product page as well. So many people screw this up. Two problems I noticed with the website: - No way to see the price of the app without clicking on the App Store button. Maybe this was intentional? - "Personalize your reading experience" part has three different screenshots showing…

> while white on blue (is that the name of that color?)

I would call that "slate".

Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by mattcurtis »

dombili wrote: post #8

This looks really good. I'm not reading anything epub length on my phone but if I were, I'd give this a shot. Big thumbs up for a great product page as well. So many people screw this up. Two problems I noticed with the website: - No way to see the price of the app without clicking on the App Store button. Maybe this was intentional? - "Personalize your reading experience" part has three different screenshots showing…

Hello dombili!

Thanks for the feedback. :)

- App price not on site: Not quite intentional, no. I plan on changing that.

- Screenshot inconsistency: Hmm. Oh - actually, that is the same part of the book, roughly, I believe the paragraph margins changed, however. Something to fix.

- Mac version: Yes, actually. Right now I'm stabilizing Hyphen, but once I've done that and implemented Syncing, there will likely be a Mac version.

Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by [deleted] »

mintplant wrote: post #11
dombili wrote: post #8

This looks really good. I'm not reading anything epub length on my phone but if I were, I'd give this a shot. Big thumbs up for a great product page as well. So many people screw this up. Two problems I noticed with the website: - No way to see the price of the app without clicking on the App Store button. Maybe this was intentional? - "Personalize your reading experience" part has three different screenshots showing…

> while white on blue (is that the name of that color?) I would call that "slate".

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Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by mattcurtis »

JSnake wrote: post #14

Is there a way to import my iBooks library into Hyphen?

There is, sort of, but iBooks makes this difficult to all but the most stout-hearted.

If you visit `~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books/` on your Mac, you'll find extracted versions of your `.epubs`, if you've downloaded them into your iBooks Library. The problem is, that in order to be valid ePubs they'd need to be archived again (as a .zip renamed to .epub, which is all ePubs are).

Also, iBooks uses DRM on paid(?) books downloaded from the store, making this more complicated even then.

So, yeah. I've plans for a desktop client that might make importing from iBooks possible/easier, but I'm a little afraid to go barking up that tree.

Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by mattcurtis »

deft wrote: post #12

Wow. I've been wondering why an ereader like this didn't already exist. Gets rid of all the flashiness and chrome and colour. I hate ereader apps because they have so much going on, finally one figures it out. Well done.

Thank you, I'm glad you think so. :)

Re: Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS

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Post by mattcurtis »

sirn wrote: post #10

I tried the full version and like how the app looks and works so far. The app seems to support ePub3 also (Marvin only supported ePub2 and Gerty is too social to my taste.) I have few feedbacks: - I wish the page doesn't fade when switching chapters. It interrupted the reading flow more than quite a bit. - Would be amazing if the app could support CJK's vertical layout and page orientation. (I have never seen ePub re…

Hello sim,

- I'm in the process of making more page turn modes available: https://github.com/hyphen-reader/hyphen/issues/4

- I'll look into CJK support. If you could offer examples of where you see it handled well, etc., that'd be great.

Thanks for the feedback.

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