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Universal BookFusion: The best modern eBook Reader & Manager for EPUBs, PDFs & other formats | Calibre Supported

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Hi Everyone!

I would like to introduce you to BookFusion. BookFusion, is the best way to organize, read, share and derive value from eBooks whether you are using it to learn, for work or for pleasure. We currently provide a single app that allows you to both manage and read your PDF, EPUB & MOBI eBook collection across your devices but will be supporting several other eBook and media formats in the future.


Easily Organize & Manage Your eBook Collection

BookFusion allows you to easily manage and organize your small or large eBook collection by using tags, authors, categories , custom bookshelves and even series.


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Filter searches, group and sort ebooks, and create custom bookshelves

You will be able to quickly find your next read using any of the sort, filter or search options.

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Multiple Supported Formats

The iOS app supports EPUB, MOBI and PDF formats natively. Other formats like DOC, HTML, AZW, AZW3, CBR and CBZ are supported if uploaded using the web app. BookFusion automatically converts ebooks to the popular and widely used EPUB format and makes them avialble across all your devices.

CBZ & CBR will be supported natively next.


Customizable Reading Experience

With an extensive list of options, you can customize your reading experience to your exact needs. Customizations include:

  • Fonts
  • Font Style
  • Line spacing
  • Margins
  • Themes
  • LTR/RTL
  • Alignment Options
  • Custom colors for background, text, & links
  • Many more


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Sync across all your devices (iOS, Android & Web)

If you use several devices, you can read on any of them using BookFusion from where you last left off. The app syncs your reading position, eBooks, highlights & notes across all your devices.

That means you never lose track of your reading progress. Just open the BookFusion app, and you’re on the right page.


Highlights & Annotations

Using BookFusion, you have powerful highlighting and annotation features to allow you to get the most value from what you read. You can highlight with custom colors (other apps usually limit you to between three and five preselected colors), add tags and notes to your highlights, and much more.

Your highlights, notes and comments will be synced across your devices. To top it off, BookFusion also allows you to export your highlights in CSV, Markdown, HTML and PDF formats.


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Calibre Integration

Do you use Calibre to manage your large eBook collection? Not to worry , BookFusion integrates with Calibre to ensure that you can sync your eBooks across all your devices and have your entire collection available at the touch of your finger tips.

BookFusion uploads all that metadata for all of your Calibre ebooks. You also can directly edit metadata like book cover, title, description, author, series and number in BookFusion.


If you update the metadata for a book in Calibre that you already uploaded, you can update the book in your BookFusion account using the add-in, even if you’re currently reading the book. This is especially useful for FanFiction readers.


Calibre Plugin details at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/calibre



Quick Send to Kindle or Open with Another App

The integrated BookFusion reader is great but if you prefer to read on Kindle or use another app you can simply use BookFusion to organize and manage your eBook collection. With a single click you can quickly send your eBook to your Kindle or Open with your next favorite eBook reading app.


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We are actively engaged and spend time with our readers on Reddit & Discord. Feel free to reply to this thread with feedback, suggestions or questions or connect with us at:


Also seen in:

 

BookFusion iOS 1.23.0 - 1.23.2​

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The releases in 1.23.X focused on mostly improvements and resolving bugs that were discovered that include:

  • Improved performance of fixed layout EPUB reader
  • Store UI/UX has been refreshed.
  • Search results now sorted by relevance
  • Fixed bug with system menu displayed over highlighting menu
  • Fixed bug for removing downloaded eBooks from devices
  • Fixed bug for some PDF highlights not showing up
  • Better offline mode support and improvements for low bandwidth connections.
  • Other updates and improvements.
We have a few exciting updates coming up in the next 1-2 releases that include:

  • Dedicated highlights view on the bookshelf - See and filter all the highlights you made across all your eBooks from a single interface
  • Initial support for Apple Pencil to make highlights
  • Show last 5 used highlight colors in the top level bar
  • Save themes/reading settings and sync them across devices
Don't see an update that you would like? Reply and let us know what you wish could be included.

Remember to leave us a 5 start review in the App Store if you love using our app. We already have tons of updates coming in the pipeline but we would love to hear what you would like to see next!

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookfusion/id1141834096
 
Ogust_Biller said:
Really nice app! Thank you very much. Affordable subscription plans. I switched to your BookFusion.
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Thank you for taking the time to try BookFusion! Please do let us know if you have any issues or items you would like to see implemented.
 
BookFusion iOS 1.24.0 – More Highlights & Annotations (EPUBs, PDF & Bookshelf)
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Highlights & Annotations


  • Show last 5 used colors at the top level menu: Now quickly highlight using your favorite colors
  • Dedicated highlights & annotations view : Now you can search, filter and see all the highlights and annotations you have made on across all the eBooks you read.
Apple Pencil Support

  • Fast highlighting with Apple Pencil
  • Apple Pencil supported in both EPUB & PDF
  • Quickly access toolbar by tapping on highlights
You can read more about the update and play the videos at
https://www.reddit.com/r/BookFusion/comments/z3cfa5

Don't see an update that you would like? Reply and let us know what you wish could be included.

Remember to leave us a 5 start review in the App Store if you love using our app. We already have tons of updates coming in the pipeline but we would love to hear what you would like to see next!

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookfusion/id1141834096
 
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BookFusion iOS 1.24.2 : Custom Fonts & Paragraph Spacing
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Incudes:
  • System & Custom Fonts Support
  • Paragraph Spacing
  • Improve text alignment override
  • Fixed bug with syncing notes and tags made while offline
  • Improvements with reading progress sync
  • Other fixes and improvements

You an read more and watch the videos at
https://www.reddit.com/r/BookFusion/comments/zi9l2b


Don't see an update that you would like? Reply and let us know what you wish could be included.

Remember to leave us a 5 start review in the App Store if you love using our app. We already have tons of updates coming in the pipeline but we would love to hear what you would like to see next.
 
BookFusion iOS 1.26.0 – Text to Speech (TTS) & More
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Text to Speech (TTS) is now officially supported in the iOS app allowing you to leverage the full extent of iOS Text to Speech (TTS) voices and languages.

Now turn any eBook into an audiobook by using Text to Speech (TTS)

All you need to do to use Text to Speech (TTS) is to go to Settings inside the Reader, select Text to Speech (TTS) and enable it.

The following has been implemented:

  • Play & Pause TTS
  • Resume where you left off
  • Supports Currently playing info
  • Listening in background


You can customize the voice used for each language by using the system settings on your iOS device.

  1. Go to Settings on your iOS device
  2. Select Accessibility
  3. Select Spoken Content
The voice and those settings for each language will now automatically be applied to all your eBooks when you use Text to Speech (TTS).

Local only & No Registration

Read up to 10 books locally on a single device with all features unlocked, no registration required! Only sign up when you want to power up your reading experience and use multiple devices.

Up Next

  • More controls for Text to Speech (TTS) which include rewind, forward and speed control
  • Save themes
As usual, please reach out if you encounter any bugs or issues. Do let us know if you have any feedback or features that you would like to see implemented.

You can read more and watch the videos about this update at
https://www.reddit.com/r/BookFusion/comments/10x4xw7
 
BookFusion iOS App 1.27.0 – Saved Reader Themes/Settings, Localization & More!

New
  • Custom reader settings/themes – You can now easily create and save your own reader settings/theme. Your custom reader settings/themes will be synchronized across all iOS devices, allowing you to quickly selected your preferred setting with a single click. (Coming soon to Web & Android)
  • Localization – We have started to add support for other languages to the app. The first language added was the Ukrainian Language as that is the other language spoken natively by members in the team. We want to quickly add other languages including Spanish, French, Russian, Mandarin, Arabic and all others. If we have a translator for a language we will add it. If you would like to see your language sooner than later and you use BookFusion then drop us a line at support@bookfusion.com expressing your interest to help with translation. Support for more languages coming soon.

Other

  • Fixed a bug with floating keyboard.
  • Added accessibility identifier for highlighting
  • Fix size of audio section in settings on iPad
  • Fixed TOC navigation for some cases

As usual, please reach out if you encounter any bugs or issues. Do let us know if you have any feedback or features that you would like to see implemented.

You can read more and watch the videos about this update at
https://www.reddit.com/r/BookFusion/comments/130ozr2
 
BookFusion iOS 1.27.1 - Vertical Writing, Spotlight Search , Obfuscated Fonts Support & More

Looking for a replacement for Marvin 3 or Kybook then look no further

Vertical Writing Support

Vertical writing based languages including Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese eBooks are now supported. Now you can read any eBook in the language of your choice with BookFusion. Please do reach out to us if you encounter any issues with vertical writing support in our iOS app.


Spotlight Search

We were able to quickly add support for using spotlight search to query your eBooks you have downloaded offline with the BookFusion app. The index will search the title, tags and description of the eBooks you have downloaded in the app.

Obfuscated Fonts

We now support obfuscated fonts which allows you to read any and all eBooks without issues.

Other
  • Text-to-Speech (TTS) improvements have been made
  • Other minor updates
Looking for another update? Feel free to comment or reach out with feedback we are always happy to hear from fellow readers.

More details at
https://www.reddit.com/r/BookFusion/comments/13lo996
 
BookFusion iOS 1.27.2BookFusion iOS – Area/Image Highlights & Annotations, Hyphenation & More
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PDF Image/Area Based Highlights & Annotations

You can now easily make image or area based highlights when reading PDFs on your iOS device. Easily annotate/highlight images, tables, graphs or even text. Any element at all in your PDF can now be highlighted and annotated.

  • Sync your image/area highlights & annotations between Web & iOS
  • Easily make image/area based highlights by long pressing on images then pinch or drag each corner to change the sizeof the area you want to highlight
  • For PDFs with text layer select the text then click the the area/image highlight icon, then select your desired location to make the highlight
  • Easily copy your image/area based highlights to your favorite note taking app or export them to PDF, Markdown, CSV & HTML
Other
  • Hyphenation support
  • Now supports selecting multiple files to upload
You can download the latest at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookfusion/id1141834096
 
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iOS App 1.28.1 – Major Comic Book Upgrades & Other Improvement [August 7th Release]

New CBR/CBZ Reader

You can now open CBZ & CBR natively from your iOS device with our new comic reader .Easily import comics from your device

  • Seamlessly go from page to page
  • Double tap to quickly zoom in and out to each location
  • Portrait & Landscape support
  • Support for scroll mode with comics
  • Support for more image formats including WEBP & TIFF
Other improvements
  • Increase margin options (horizontally)
  • CBZ/CBR image calculation fixes
  • Contact support fixes
  • Improved pdf highlighting, the bar no longer covers the text
  • Fixed bug to attach images when you try to contact support
Stay tuned for more updates. Don’t see the feature or improvement you are looking for? Reply and let us know! Please do reach out to us if you encounter a bug or simply have feedback.

You can download the latest at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookfusion/id1141834096
 
Seem we missed posting quite a number of updates here. It will be too much to post so will post the links to them instead.
 
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BookFusion iOS 1.30.6 – Brightness Gesture Control, Other Improvements & Fixes


New
  • Gesture controls for adjusting brightness. Vertical pan at the edges for paginated mode and horizontal pan for scroll mode to adjust brightness with gestures
  • Display supported system fonts based on language of the books
  • More granular settings for line height. Now increases and decreases in smaller increments

Improvements & Fixes
  • Don’t show brightness control for interactive books
  • Fix “JavaScript error occurred” during opening EPUB books
  • Better bookmarks positions between different devices
  • TTS performance improvements
  • Improve stack reading position for PDF when you navigate with the progress bar
  • Fix TTS crash when pdf page does not contain any text
  • Fix scrolling to chapters with no text and scrolling to 100%
  • Exclude non-linear spine items for reflowable EPUB


Another release with some quality of life improvements and fixes. Stay tuned for the next iOS release with 1 or 2 more of your voted requests.

More about that release at https://www.reddit.com/r/BookFusion/...sture_control/
 
BookFusion iOS 1.31.0 – Custom Tap Zones! & Other Improvements

New​


Introducing a highly-requested feature in this release – Custom Tap Zones! Now, take control of your reading experience like never before with the ability to customize the size and actions of tap areas using a convenient 3 X 3 grid.

  • Grid-Based Customization: Easily adjust the size of tap areas using a user-friendly 3 X 3 grid within the reader.
  • Tailor Actions: Define your preferred actions for each block, choosing from options like Page Left, Page Right, Toggle Toolbar, Play/Pause, or opt for No Action.
  • Enhanced Accessibility: Enjoy a more comfortable reading experience for both left-handed and right-handed users, with the flexibility to customize tap zones based on your hand preference.
  • Inclusive Design: Custom Tap Zones provide a solution for individuals with hand disabilities or disorders, allowing them to personalize interactions to suit their unique needs.
  • Effortless Configuration: Personalize your tap zones seamlessly from within the reader, making your desired actions just a tap away.
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Improvements & Fixes​


This release has a few more fixes that address brightness gesture conflicts when doing:

  • Area/Image highlights
  • PDF swiping
  • Apple Pencil Selection
The latest update can be found in the App Store at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookfusion/id1141834096 . Thanks again for all the support and please do continue to reach out to us with feedback and suggestions to help us build your ideal reading platform.

Stay tuned for the next few releases!. What are you looking forward to the most?

More details at
https://www.reddit.com/r/BookFusion/comments/187zlva

or

BookFusion iOS 1.31.0 – Custom Tap Zones! & Other Improvements - BookFusion Blog

New Introducing a highly-requested feature in this release – Custom Tap Zones! Now, take control of your reading experience like never before with the ability to customize the size and actions of tap areas using a convenient 3 X 3 grid.
blog.bookfusion.com blog.bookfusion.com
 

BookFusion iOS 1.31.3 – Auto-Scroll , Apple Pencil Improvements & More​

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Auto-scroll​


Auto-scroll is now here! The auto-scroll feature is designed to enhance the reading experience for EPUBs, PDFs, and Comics. It intelligently scrolls the page according to the reading pace you set, ensuring a seamless and hands-free experience.

To enable this go to Settings -> Auto-Scroll

It might not be immediately apparent but auto-scroll has the following main benefits:

  • Hands-Free Reading: The biggest advantage is that auto-scroll allows readers to enjoy a book without having to manually turn pages or swiping the screen. This especially useful for those who are eating, playing an instrument or engaged in any activity that occupies their hands.
  • Consistent Reading Pace: It promotes a consistent reading pace, which can be beneficial for readers who are practicing speed reading or who want to maintain a steady reading speed.
  • Accessibility: For individuals with disabilities that limit manual dexterity, such as arthritis, carpal tunnel or hand tremors & others, auto-scroll makes reading more accessible and less physically demanding.

Apple Pencil Improvements​

  • Automatically merge highlights when conjoin using Apple Pencil​

  • Use Apple Pencil along the edges of the page in scroll mode to move the page forward and backwards
  • Expand highlight to word boundaries when highlight was created with Apple Pencil
  • Previously implemented, you can use your Apple Pencil to write notes when you make a highlight

Fixes​


  • Stricter gesture detection for brightness adjustments to prevent conflicts
  • Solid backgrounds on the interface and highlights page . This increases readability of text when compared to blur used previously.
  • Fix context menu position in vertical writing books. This sometimes could show under overlay controls
  • Better handling of epub books with invalid xhtml chapters
  • Fixed crash when reading position pointed to removed chapter. This happens when users update books via Calibre plugin
  • Fixed reading position in RTL EPUB books
The latest update can be found in the App Store at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookfusion/id1141834096 . Thanks again for all the support and please do continue to reach out to us with feedback and suggestions to help us build your ideal reading platform.

Stay tuned for the next few releases!. What are you looking forward to the most?
 

BookFusion iOS 1.32.0 – EPUB Area/Image Highlights, Auto Dark/Light Theme in Reader & More!​

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EPUB Area/Image Highlights​

We are thrilled to announce a significant enhancement to our iOS app – the introduction of Area/Image-Based Highlighting for both EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 formats. This update brings our iOS app in line with our Web app, offering a unified and enriched user experience.

What’s New:

  1. Versatile Highlighting Options: Whether you wish to highlight an entire image or focus on a specific section, our new feature accommodates your needs. This flexibility is perfect for emphasizing key visuals or detailed parts of images in your EPUBs. This is useful for capturing graphs, tables, specification diagrams & more.
  2. Offline and Online Accessibility: Enjoy the freedom to make highlights and annotations both offline and online. Whether you’re on the go without internet access or connected at home, your reading experience remains uninterrupted and fully functional.
  3. Cross-Device Synchronization: Your area/image highlights and notes are automatically synced across all your devices. Start reading and annotating on your iOS device and seamlessly pick up where you left off on any other platform.
To start making area/image highlights when reading EPUBs:

  1. Long press on any image that you would like to highlight
  2. Click the area/image highlight icon (square icon) from the toolbar that pops up
  3. Select the entire image or a section of the image you would like to highlight. That’s it!


All area/image based highlights can now easily be created and synced between iOS and Web as well as being available for export. Support coming to Android soon.

Auto Dark/Light Theme in Reader​

We are happy to Introduce the auto dark/light theme in the reader for your enhanced reading comfort.

Key Enhancements:

  1. Automatic Synchronization with System Settings: The reader now intelligently matches your device’s system settings for dark and light modes, providing a consistent experience as you use your device.
  2. End to Manual Switching: Say goodbye to the jarring experience of a bright screen in a dark room or the strain of a light theme in bright sunlight. The auto theme transition takes care of these adjustments for you, ensuring the display is always easy on your eyes.
  3. Smooth and Unobtrusive Transitions: The shift between dark and light themes is designed to be fluid and unnoticeable, so your reading flow remains uninterrupted. You won’t even realize the change as it happens! Whether you’re reading in bed, commuting, or lounging outdoors, the reader adapts, allowing you to be completely immersed in what you read.


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Disable Brightness Gestures​

Brightness control via gestures have been released a few months now. However, there are cases when it would be better disabled for some segment of readers. To disable brightness gesture controls do the following:

  • Go to Device Settings
  • Select BookFusion
  • Toggle Brightness Gesture Off
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Improvements & Fixes​

  • Empty page while auto-scrolling is being used sometimes.
  • Next page bleeds into the current page
  • Fix Palatino font
  • Fix table of contents performance in old iOS versions
  • Fix device rotation issue during auto-scroll
  • Fix when part of next page visible in page mode
  • Save reading position when using TTS in background
  • Fixed infinite loading in long chapters
  • Fixed location of bookmark during auto-scroll
  • Fixed crash when merging highlights with tags

The latest update can be found in the App Store at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookfusion/id1141834096 . Thanks again for all the support and please do continue to reach out to us with feedback and suggestions to help us build your ideal reading platform.

Don’t see a feature you are looking for? What are you looking forward to the most? Let us know in the comments! Stay tuned for the next few releases.
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More details about the update at
https://www.reddit.com/r/BookFusion/comments/19e7ysz
 
Seems interesting, however I would rather pay a one time price vice subscription…
 
kozz said:
Seems interesting, however I would rather pay a one time price vice subscription…
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We provide a free tier that is limited to max 10 books. Once you have hit the 10 uploaded books you can then upload 2 more books in 31 days provided you have 8 or less books saved. The average reader reads 10-12 books per year. If we did not have these limits then our service would simply be abused. All features are unlocked by default.

You can use the app for free with up to 10 eBooks with all features unlocked, If you want to use it for more than that then you have to pay. You do not even need to create an account. Subscriptions start at $1.99 which is very reasonable if you want to go beyond the free option. We provide a full ebook reader and manager that seamlessly syncs, eBooks, bookmarks, reading progress, highlights & annotations across all devices and will support upcoming collaborative features that use BookFusions backend (cloud).

All other e-reader apps do not offer the features or functionality we provide. You might have noticed all "other e-reader apps have" not been updated for the last 3-4 years as they have been abandoned. Expectations of continuous updates and new features are not a "one time" expense. Unfortunately we cannot reasonably offer a one time payment due to the following reasons:

  • Infrastructure, storage and other costs are due monthly
  • Salaries are also due monthly(app needs to be maintained)
  • Other recurring expenses
Most apps that offer a one time payment, often end up not being maintained pass a couple years since the developers/company need to work on other projects to supplement their income.

In summary there are recurring expenses that will always be due monthly or yearly. We want to build a sustainable company that does not depend on ads or selling users data that stands the test of time. As a result, we won't be able to provide a single payment plan as they are not sustainable.

Understandably this model does not work for some readers and that is okay there are many alternatives such as Apple Books and others.
 
Thanks for the detailed response, and I would most likely fit into the free tier for ever so that is good to know maybe I’ll give it a go

I would also add that I believe that there are more than some readers that are turned off by a subscription model.

Maybe there is a happy medium to be found in the future
 
Several releases occurred for the iOS App over the past couple months:


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