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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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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 three different styles. White on black and black on white styles show the same part of the book while white on blue (is that the name of that color?) shows a different part. No one will probably notice that, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to point out.

Any plans to make a Mac version?

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

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Is it me or is it odd, that a reader called "Hyphen" doesn't seem to offer hyphenation? Especially as the screenshot shown on the page shows rather large spacing used for block setting the text.

There seems to be Hyphenation support but not on by default. (I downloaded and tried.)

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

#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 reader app that did this right.)

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