It’s fairly bare-bones, but its clean reading interface and the way it makes accessing books from its own cloud storage simple make it one of my favorites for quick reading.īut for in-depth reading, another app has made its way onto all of my Android devices, displacing old favorites like FBReader or Moon+. One of my favorite apps in that regard is Google Play Books. I haven’t been doing a lot of e-reading lately, but when I have, my needs are generally pretty simple: I just want something to show me the book in a decent font with reasonable formatting, and stay out of my way when I want to get down to reading. Some of them have been around for quite a while, and they all have slightly different features and capabilities. We just mentioned a few in a recent post, in fact. Why do I have to click to expand text items in release notes? And he says that some plugins are no longer compatible because of the switch to Qt6.There are a remarkable number of decent DRM-free ebook-reading apps for Android. The commit history is an absolute mess to try and navigate because he seems to have "save" and "commit" confused.Įdit: the very link itself is a perfect example of how Goyal seems to have zero awareness or care for others.
Last but not least: it's almost exclusively developed by one person (a problem by itself for such a large and widely used project) who is infamous for being at best abrasive and at worst an asshole - and not a particularly good programmer. The UI is outdated, hostile to users in general, and not low/impaired-vision friendly (six icons in the standard main toolbar all look virtually identical save for very minor differences, and Goval loves different shades of grey, reducing contrast.)
He's forced to release constant updates because he refuses to separate the news processing code from the main application code (the processing "recipes" should be separately distributed) and worse, there's no auto-updater, so keeping the application up to date is a pain in the ass. It's incredibly cumbersome to set up for even the most basic, common tasks that everyone wants to do.
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