A VERY promising start
As someone who has an obsessive need to control about every bit of aesthetic in his ebook reading experience, I greatly appreciate when a new contender comes along that tries to cater to my needs. As it stands, a lot of the epub/mobi reading apps have some great features, and would ALMOST be perfect if they gave us more control. But alas, they don’t.
Hyphen in my mind is easily the best reader I’ve tried since KYBook and Marvin and for an initial release holds a lot of promise. Lot’s of control options and pretty seamless though sometimes counter-ios controls are baked in (swiping up from the bottom doesn’t just bring up your menu without bringing up the shortcut tray of ios). The organization could use some improvements as well. But hey it’s version one. Also I’m a bit weary of the price points as $6 dollars might discourage a lot of people from buying it. I think you are right at $3 with the addition of allowing people to do a trial/light version.
As to what I’d LOVE/NEED to see to give this a five star and above score would be the inclusion of other formats such as mobi. A few apps in the store do both epub/mobi and honestly I don’t know why people don’t think this can be done in the same reader… Also fluid page turning animations like in iBooks. Again, a few apps have this and it just makes reading feel more fun and fluid. Like I’m REALLY reading a book. Lastly, dynamic page numbers in correlation to font size. I noticed that the pages always seemed static even when I greatly tweaked fonts and sizes.
Keep up the great work!
Chasemania about
Hyphen.