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Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by skillachie »

Hi HN Crew,

I would like to introduce you to Bookfusion, a multi-platform reader that allows you to organize and read your eBooks across Desktops(Windows,Linux, iOS) and Desktop via web and on Android and iOS devices with a native app.

More details at: https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/cloud-library

Quick Overview Of Features

Cloud Library – create your own eBook cloud library to manage all your eBooks in one place without the need to run your own servers. Upload your entire collection.

Read on Any Device – Read your eBooks on the devices you have today and the ones you will have tomorrow. Read on Android, IOS and Web (Linux,Windows & OSX)

Integrated Mobile & Web Reader – Have a truly seamless experience by using the same app that you use to organize and manage your eBook library to read your books as well

Any Format - Read any book regardless of format from PDF, MOBI, EPUB, TXT, DOC and others.

Export & View Highlits - A single interface to view all highlights made across all your eBooks. Export your highlights from the web interface via CSV Sync across all devices – Sync your reading progress, bookmarks and highlights across all devices. Pick up where you left off.

Organize your eBooks - Easily change the cover, title, author and assign custom tags to organize your eBook collection.

Send to Kindle – Quickly send your books to your kindle device via your kindle email with the click of a button.

Calibre plugin - Easily sync your Calibre eBook collection

Please feel free to reach out if you have any suggestions or feedback to dc@bookfusion.com

PS: Founder of BookFusion

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by seirl »

jasano wrote: post #237
michaelmrose wrote: post #48

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They perform comparatively slowly and use more resources and battery power. For example hexchat an irc client seems to use about 50-60MB of ram. Slack by contrast out of the box appears to use 1.2GB of memory. There are at present 12 applications open on my machine. If they all used over a GB each something would be starving given that I only have 8. Note please that most machines still have 8GB or less. Do you reall…

I just wanted to hear what people had to say to be honest. Given the success of Slack, is it really that bad? Why has no resource "friendly" alternatives taken its place?

Because people used to be able to use whatever IRC client they wanted for Slack, so it wasn't a problem if they were too memory constrained. In a pure embrace, extend, extinguish fashion, Slack closed the gateway that made them popular and now everyone is stuck with their pile of crap app.

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by megablast »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #111
ascii_only wrote: post #106

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Yes. I should have been more clear. He is not against python3 but thinks that it is less work to maintain python2 than port calibre to newer version.

This sounds like Calibre codebase is a mess that needs to be refactored.

Oh. Like every single codebase ever then?

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by michaelmrose »

jasano wrote: post #237
michaelmrose wrote: post #48

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They perform comparatively slowly and use more resources and battery power. For example hexchat an irc client seems to use about 50-60MB of ram. Slack by contrast out of the box appears to use 1.2GB of memory. There are at present 12 applications open on my machine. If they all used over a GB each something would be starving given that I only have 8. Note please that most machines still have 8GB or less. Do you reall…

I just wanted to hear what people had to say to be honest. Given the success of Slack, is it really that bad? Why has no resource "friendly" alternatives taken its place?

Most users can afford one resource hog even if battery life and performance decrease.

We can't afford a whole list of apps all hogging resources simultaneously.

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by favadi »

skillachie wrote: post #235
favadi wrote: post #34

Anyone knows if there is a ebook reader that supports Android/Linux and can sync book/progress between machines?

This is exactly what BookFusion does. Your able to read on Desktop(Windows, Linux, OSX) via Web and can read on Android and iOS devices while having your reading progress, bookmarks, and highlights synced across all devices. You can learn more at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/cloud-library PS: Founder of BookFusion

Looks amazing! Signed up and I notice that the web reader uses red color for text, is there anything I can change it to just black?

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by skillachie »

favadi wrote: post #246
skillachie wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly what BookFusion does. Your able to read on Desktop(Windows, Linux, OSX) via Web and can read on Android and iOS devices while having your reading progress, bookmarks, and highlights synced across all devices. You can learn more at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/cloud-library PS: Founder of BookFusion

Looks amazing! Signed up and I notice that the web reader uses red color for text, is there anything I can change it to just black?

Thank you for giving it a try. The color for the fonts are set based on what is present in the EPUB or document. We currently allow you to change the font type, background and other options but not the color of the font currently.

I have added this to the development roadmap and you will see it deployed by Q2 this year

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by sdrothrock »

skillachie wrote: post #219
sdrothrock wrote: post #28

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I do, regularly. I read books on my phone on the go, then pick it up at a computer (and I do this across multiple computers) when I'm at a computer, and vice-versa.

What do you use to read your eBooks now? Also does your current solution sync all elements of your eBook activities across multiple devices? Take BookFusion for a spin and let me know what you think. BookFusion allows you to easily read your entire eBook collection and sync your bookmarks, reading progress, highlights and comments across all devices. BookFusion has native Android, iOS and Web apps. More at https://ww…

I use Google Books.

It syncs all elements of all of my activities across all platforms (Windows, OS X, Android, iOS) that I use. My main issue with it is that I can't download the stuff I uploaded, so it's not really good as a storage/backup solution, but that's fairly minor.

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by buzzert »

fishywang wrote: post #195
dsr_ wrote: post #148

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I buy from Google, no DRM, plain epub. Big selection. I buy from Kobo, no DRM, plain epub. Big selection. I buy from a bunch of authors' own websites or small publishing platforms (like bookviewcafe.com) because an even higher percentage of the price goes to the author, and nobody ever pays to put DRM on their own book.

I'm not sure about Kobo but I think no DRM is not guaranteed on Google. For certain authors (e.g. John Scalzi) their books on Google will have the small part in description says "At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied." (e.g. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=XVwOEeHTU4QC ) but my understanding is without that statement the book will…

Many books on Kobo also have DRM unfortunately.

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by ori_b »

PurpleRamen wrote: post #234
ori_b wrote: post #190

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> But they still lack the "alternate view" on your library. Those Walled Garden-Apps that work with librarys are more like a relational database, offering flexible selections and content-optimized views that filemanagers are normally lacking. Thankfully, there are also full-text indexers like spotlight and tracker.

How good does that sync between devices?

If you have access to the files on a device, it will index the files.
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