Thanks for the XML to HTML tweak -- it works! I can read a book in any browser! The only drawback is that navigation and footnotes seem to break, or maybe that's just Safari letting me down?
As it happens, I've been very frustrated with my reading software this week. I'm way too fussy about how stuff looks -- I was a typesetter in an earlier life! I don't want to read things in ugly fonts, I want to see italics and bold because I've been using these cues for 63 years damn it.
I think I have every possible iOS reading app that supports highlighting and saving notes. All of them glitch at random.
Right now my favorite is EasyReader from Dolphin. It lets me set the pace of a visual reading cursor that highlights sentence-by-sentence, while also turning off the voice. This combo creates autoscroll for my very large print. The only drawback is EasyReader doesn't understand iOS's Files app, so I have to Share > Open in EasyReader.
Voice Dream Reader is Files-literate, and it permits much faster autoscroll, but it insists on full justification. I pinged the developer -- we'll see.
I've also used Bluefire Reader, Kobo, MapleRead, KyBook 3, Marvin, Hyphen, PocketBook, BookFusion, and Speech Central. Apple's Books is hopeless -- doesn't support a single column in landscape, which is what I use because huge fonts. *None* of them offer "next page" or "previous page" with Voice Control -- only Libby, the newer library app from Overdrive does that (but no notes).
Do I want too much? Why yes, I do.
Turns out the Kindle app does support copying notes -- maybe I should be converting my ePubs to mobi?
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Date: 2020-07-17 09:28 pm (UTC)As it happens, I've been very frustrated with my reading software this week. I'm way too fussy about how stuff looks -- I was a typesetter in an earlier life! I don't want to read things in ugly fonts, I want to see italics and bold because I've been using these cues for 63 years damn it.
I think I have every possible iOS reading app that supports highlighting and saving notes. All of them glitch at random.
Right now my favorite is EasyReader from Dolphin. It lets me set the pace of a visual reading cursor that highlights sentence-by-sentence, while also turning off the voice. This combo creates autoscroll for my very large print. The only drawback is EasyReader doesn't understand iOS's Files app, so I have to Share > Open in EasyReader.
Voice Dream Reader is Files-literate, and it permits much faster autoscroll, but it insists on full justification. I pinged the developer -- we'll see.
I've also used Bluefire Reader, Kobo, MapleRead, KyBook 3, Marvin, Hyphen, PocketBook, BookFusion, and Speech Central. Apple's Books is hopeless -- doesn't support a single column in landscape, which is what I use because huge fonts. *None* of them offer "next page" or "previous page" with Voice Control -- only Libby, the newer library app from Overdrive does that (but no notes).
Do I want too much? Why yes, I do.
Turns out the Kindle app does support copying notes -- maybe I should be converting my ePubs to mobi?