I no more want to do an ebook’s layout than I want to spellcheck it or fix the typos. Sorry, but what I want is for the author/publisher to make the book look attractive not farm that work out to me. Quote: “Once you’ve configured a book to look how you want…” So, unless you prefer to have fewer options available to confuse you, I honestly can’t think of any reason to get any other ePub-reading app than Marvin.
At that price, it’s remarkably inexpensive for an e-reader, and if you have (or can make) DRM-free ePub files in your library, they’ll look just fine here.īut if you add the merits of other apps into that consideration, you can’t really get around the fact that they look just as fine in Marvin, which has even more ways to configure your read, makes it easier to load ebooks in, and lacks the annoying habit of losing track of your books if you run low on disk space. Hyphen is an excellent e-reader in every respect, and considered on its own merits I would have no problem recommending its purchase or spending $2.99 to buy it myself. When Hyphen told me it couldn’t open any of the books on its shelf, I checked Marvin and all the books I’d loaded there still opened just fine.) (And Marvin doesn’t seem to have this problem. Some e-readers offer the option to reload the pre-installed ebooks, but Hyphen doesn’t seem to.
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I was able to do this for my book Joe & Julius, but I have no idea how to do so for the five public-domain titles included in the reader’s original installation. One odd thing is that if your iPad gets low on storage space and deletes app caches, Hyphen can lose the ability to open ebooks you’ve loaded into it until and unless you load them into Hyphen again. (And Freda for Windows, which is right up there with Marvin but for a different platform.) For example, Marvin lets you change pagination to web browser-style scrolling, which isn’t an option in Hyphen as far as I can tell. Effectively, this is easily the most configurable ePub app I’ve ever run across- except for Marvin, which has even more options. There’s an option to set whatever changes you make to colors, formatting, and style to apply to this book only, rather than setting it as the default. There are configuration options to disable auto-lock while reading, and, if it is so disabled, to re-enable auto-lock after a set number of minutes with no activity, in case you fall asleep. I would honestly have no problem whatsoever reading any ebook I loaded into the app this way. If you tap in the middle of the page to bring up the options menu bar, it also opens a slider let you flick to any position in the book with a simple finger movement. Once you’ve configured a book to look how you want with these options, it reads just fine, with a footer at the bottom to tell you how far along in it you are.
You can also set it to use two columns, or to use two columns only when in landscape mode.
You can also disable publisher styling altogether, or keep it while removing just specific elements, such as font family, text alignment, or margins. Leaving aside Marvin, the configuration options available in Hyphen put most e-reading apps to shame you can select the font face and size, text color and background color, enable or disable hyphenation (which you’d expect, given the name) and adjust the margin, paragraph spacing, line spacing, and paragraph indentation (though the widest paragraph indentation the app offers is just barely indented enough for me). (Though you actually do have to navigate through the Dropbox directories to the files you want, whereas Marvin scans your Dropbox and lists all the ePub files it finds there for you.) I suppose it just goes to show how impressed I was by Marvin that while I was reading with Hyphen, I kept catching myself thinking, “That’s just like Marvin” or “That’s almost as good as Marvin.” For starters, you can add e-books to the device from Apple’s Cloud Drive, Dropbox, or Google Drive, just as with Marvin. My one reservation is that Marvin may make it a touch redundant.
It’s certainly a worthwhile purchase at the price.
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Hyphen is available in a free trial version, which limits you to reading the single book you just added, or a full version for $2.99. Now I’ve had a look at Hyphen, which is very nearly as good. Why does iOS have so many good plain-vanilla DRM-free ePub reading applications? I already checked out Marvin, whose latest version carries on the tradition of offering a remarkable number of features in a single application.
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