i2Reader App Reviews

I waited for this reader long time. And it is the best reader in AppStore. Thank you to developers - it look very good and working really fast.

i have spent countless time trying to get this to work -- instructions incomplete, and i get directed to a porn site. no support whatsoever from them. unless they can contact me asap i would call this a total pos and dont buy this -- what a waste!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought this to use in Sync with Calibre on my PC. To my suprise and disgust the verson being sold here is different than the screen shots which show a Calibre integration. The screenshots provided in this are for a more current version of the application than is being sold here. The newer release has the following features that would make this worth buying. I would strongly recommend waiting for the 3.1 version to be posted. •One-way built-in FTP server to upload books and dictionaries to i2Reader •Support for cross-platform Calibre tool to upload books to i2Reader •Dramatically sped up book library opening •Improved EPUB standard handling •Better support of FB2, HTML formats •Fixes for better RTF file handling •Support for .dz dictionary format (FTP upload only) •Expanded pre-defined styles list •DOC format is supported again (with pictures)

After trying almost all readers stayed with this. It has russian hyphenation, great autoscrolling and many useful features. Now with built-in FTP server its so easy to upload many books at once… I like reading and I like doing it with i2Reader.

New Update for this review: v3.1 solves a part of the bugs. It can upload my fb2 files successfully now. But there is still a fatal bug: for fb2 files with Chinese characters, v3.1 still cannot do word wrap between lines. The algorithm to divide lines for Chinese chars is wrong. V3.0 review: This app is very buggy. I upload a fb2 file to iPhone, then made some revision to fb2 file, deleted old version on iPhone and tried to reload but cannot upload it to library any more. My worst experience in app considering its price. I would definitely never recommend this app. One star in quality.

Works as advertised, the FTP server is an awesome feature for me and the txt file support is a must. If it supported lit that would be even better.

Ive been using i2reader for almost 2 years from now on, and I absolutely recommend it to everyone! The best reading software ever!

MY THIRD FAVORITE APP after Dictionary Universal and THINGS @Дмитрий: Нормально работает с Calibre все. Люди -- ну как вам не нравится читалка? Щортбук вам не поддерживает стардиктовских словарей. А морфологические формы какая еще читалка вам ищет? Тап зоны вообще не надо использовать. Перелистываете себе на здоровье. А оставьте тапы для подсмотра слов. Жемчужина, а не книжка -- посмотрите получше перед тем как судить недосмысленно. @sobakovod Why are you giving this app a 1-star rating listing only 3 very minor issues? Groups within groups? Essential? Не смешите людей. У меня не падает если я закидываю через браузер. У вас проблемы на Вашей стороне вероятно. Удаление книг через кнопку делайте в табе "Library." (не в "Featured") Какой еще ридер работает со словарями Star Dict? BookShelf, но у той читалки куча неудобств в пользовании. Старое ревю/Older review: Theres a lot in this 3.2 update. It looks like Styles management has been completely redesigned. I like what I am seeing. - Dictionaries that work with this eReader are fairly easy to find. Just google "name of dictionary" and "stardict" and, after some search, you will find your dictionaries. I use several top dictionaries myself which I also own in other forms, and their availability for this reader application is why I settled on i2Reader a few months ago. - All Stardict dictionaries I have thrown at it work. They just do! Amazing. Even the ones in .dz format, though mine are already unpacked as .dict. (You need both files for each dictionary -- the .dict and .info). You should also go into preferences and refresh your settings (Use dictionaries --> Dictionaries in Use) - Dictionaries can be deleted when you connect to your FTP client/iLibrarian, etc. -- any other means of how you uploaded your books and dictionaries to begin with. Update: Also, now in the app. - What is great about this eReader is that it ABSOLUTELY RECOGNIZES word morphology for languages that have alternate word endings (including Russian, etc). For instance, if you click on "перепробовал" in text, it will show you findings based on % of closeness to the infinitive/nominative case/other initial word form as it can. Thus, it will show you "перепробовать." For this feature to be operational, you need to have "Use suggestions" turned ON in your preferences. - For when the dictionary pop-up box opens up, you have the choice of either reading in the same style as the book style you are currently using or you can leave it default style. If you use the same style as the book, then your pop-up dictionary will take on the font/background of the book. Again, check in preferences. - Secondary lookup IS ABSOLUTELY possible. See the little search icon in the pop-up dictionary box (top right corner)? Just click on it and type/paste your word in there. You DONT have to exit the book. You can review the history of words you looked up (currently, last 30 words UPDATE: Now 100 words -- FANTASTIC! This was a big request of mine) by exiting the book, going into the Dictionary tab, and clicking in the search box. Looked up words will be listed with last looked up word on top and then on down to older lookups. To conclude, this app is the reason to own an iPhone/iPod Touch, and possibly the iSlate Actually, I got a secondary device in addition to my iPhone 3G (I got the newest 64 gig iPod Touch just for this ereader, well, and to have my 40 gig music library on my iPod Touch). I pretty much have devoted all multimedia to my iPod Touch since I dont call/text all that much. Some days I dont even use my iPhone anymore. An iPod Touch is much lighter and slimmer than an iPhone. My most used apps: Weather Channel/AccuWeather Things Safari Dictionary Universal i2Reader Good Reader Mantis Bible Reader iVocabulary This ereader is better (if you do some research you will find out why) than eReader, Barnes and Noble reader, Stanza, Bookshelf, Kindle, etc. P.S. Digital Stealth and Unsanity -- we depend on you now -- now that RipDev is no more.. Stay in touch through whatever means you currently can. Can we have audio word support as in the older, you-know-which-one, version of i2Reader? Thanks for making reading on the iPhone platform the most pleasing mobile experience currently available anywhere. I also am looking forward to using this reader on the iPad. It is going to be much better than iBooks since iBooks doesnt support dictionaries. I cant use an ebook reader that doesnt support multiple (read: Stardict) dictionaries. ПС: Ну есть немного глюков, но живем с ними. Типа вылетает иногда при перестановки кодировки для текст-документов. Eщe в горизонтальном варианте окошко перевода слов в каком-то лоу-рез режиме постоянно.

Stanza trumps i2Reader in every way, and its free.  i2Reader Review This app is terrible, a complete waste of time and money, oh let me count the ways! Actually I wont because Ive already wasted a weeks worth of here and there trying to crowbar this thing to meet my needs. • Why cant I copy and paste anything? I needed to pull a code snippet from a reference book but couldnt for the life of me figure out how. I ended up importing the book to Stanza instead since it can do more.

I use this app in conjunction calibre and it works great. I like the quick access to change the background color.(useful for night reading)

Edit: Fix the dictionary broken bug. I change the review to 5 stars! Dictionary is broken for the latest version (4.0). Just shows an empty window and hangs. Email their technical support and get no response!

the Best feature of i2reader is stardict dictionary linkup, very flexible hope future update could have: embedded Stardict support Audio Pronunciation, anyway, great app...

The best book reader it found around! Much sophisticated than all others! And excellent investment, highly recommend! Well done guys, many thanks for your great job !

Poorly done application, many bags including opening on ipad in a portrait mode regardless of the current screen position, periodic dissapearing of the upper menu, wrong page numbers etc... Claimed support of the StartDict format is pathetic. No formatting of the output, ugly pop-up screen in iphone with button OK taking as much space as the translation itself, not working for half of the spanish/french words most probabaly due to the non-typical characters like é not taken care of in the search. Not even talking about missing support for zip format for the dictionaries and books, well who cares that it takes much more space quite limited on Apple devices? Would suggest the developer to read any article on writing software to understand why testing is needed to be done prior to suggesting such rubbish to customers. Dissatisfied...

i2reader best e-reader software in Appstore! Clear and smoth text rendering, all text file formats, outstanding library! Must have for all who like reading from iPhone

The only reader with integrated multilingual dictionary, thats the main advantage of this program. The main disadvantage is that it doesnt support multitasking

This is the an excellent reader. It can read PDF, epub, doc, fb2, html, rtf, txt , cbr, cbv and more that I cant remember. It has over ten different text viewing styles ..... like black background with white text for night reading. It shows cover art thumbnails with every article. it remembers your place in every article. It can search the web and download books. It can network to your computer and pull books from your home computers library. It has bookmarks and a history tab for web browsing and a star rating for articles. Web browser, OPDS libraries, Shared libraries of your own home computers and a FTP server to upload and download books to and from the I2 reader server. It can play sound... show animations and video It can sort your ebooks ... view text in landscape mode and has multiple dictionaries. It is a really nice ebook reader and I whole heartedly recommend it...

Wow ... A new update after over 6 months of complete silence from these strange devs. The new update does fix a few and improve a couple of things. This is my favorite ebook reader but I really wish the devs were more responsive to peoples questions and requests. I have written about 6 emails requesting information about how to add dictionaries which is NOT explained at all in the manual. Also where to get the dictionaries from is nowhere to be found. Their website is useless because it is completely out of date and full of dead links. How can a company gave an app in the AppStore and issue an recently even update that app yet have no support and a website that is of no help because it completely out of date? I dont get this way of doing business. Good eReader but buy at your own peril.

i2Reader offers a LOT of customazation, including changing the tap zone for turning pages. I REALLY like the status line customazation, which you can add the time, a separator, title, progress bar, page number or % read, and custom field. It does dispay PFs nicely, but doesnt allow for zooming in and out, which I need to be able to read much of the text. It "sort of" connects with Calibre, but most of the time hangs and is unable to download from it. It does well with drag and drop in iTunes. There is no way to modify the metadata in books once they are in the app, although, you can change the cover if you download it into your camera roll. It has limited book sorts and no way to group books in a series together. What Id like to see in the next update: better Calibre supppot, PDF "pinch" to zoom, metadata change support, and more sorting options.

i2Reader seemed like a promising replacement for the now-defunct Stanza, as its the only reader app that offers many of Stanzas key features, like grouping books and fine control over how books are displayed. Be warned, though: this app is a DISASTER. First, its buggy as heck. Yes, you can (tediously) put books in groups (i.e. folders) to make managing your library easier… but shortly after you do, all your groups will vanish, taking all the books inside with them. Theyre still there, theyre just hidden. You have to use the search tool to find them and then edit each books metadata to remove the group assignment in order to make them visible again. Or you can wait for one of the brief, random intervals when your groups just magically reappear for a little while — before quickly disappearing again. There were plenty of other bugs, too. Calibre support is basically useless. The drag handle for setting the top margin got stuck in place through several force-quits and restarts of the app. And it crashed all the time in all sorts of different situations even after I force-quit just about everything else I was running just to free up memory. And second, and perhaps even more importantly, the screenshots and feature list utterly fail to convey how stunningly ganky the interface is. The best example is the way you set book display options, like font, font size and color, margins, text flow, and so on. You dont just quickly access some convenient and easy-to-use controls like you could in Stanza and then see exactly how your changes are affecting the book youre reading. Oh no. You have to leave the book youre reading, navigate over to preferences, and then pick a style sheet, which is sort of like a little book template. The app includes a bunch of different ones, all of which are ghastly from a design and reading perspective, and you modify your display settings by changing things in the template… except you cant alter any of the built-in ones, you have to copy one of them and then work from there, meaning that every time you go to style preferences (which will be many, many, many times, for reasons Ill get to in a moment) you also have to scroll to the bottom of a long list to get past all the crappy built-in styles to get to your user-created ones. And then, once youre editing/reading one of your own style templates, you have to do things like tap and hold on a block of text in order to open a font panel to change the font assignment for any ebook text thats tagged with the same tag that particular block in the template is tagged with. Ganky enough by itself, but there are two further problems with this idiotic system. First, the resulting size of the text in the style template IS NOT THE SAME as the size you see in actual books youre reading in the app! In my experience, the text in the template was always larger, so I kept having to go back to the book, see the text was still too small, leave the book, go to prefs, go to styles, scroll all the way down, open my template, find the appropriate block of text, tap and hold, and then edit the font size AGAIN — and lather, rinse and repeat many more times, since the template basically never looked like the book. i2Reader is doing some kind of bizarre scaling that only applies inside the style templates, so fonts generally looked like large crap in the template and then looked smaller than I wanted but better-rendered in the actual book. But it gets worse, because… Second, there are apparently a many different tags used in every ebook and a huge variety in the tags used by different ebooks, and just about none of the template text is labeled with its corresponding tag but all of it has to be altered individually, meaning that i2Readers template system DOESN"T ALLOW YOU TO SIMPLY SET A GLOBAL FONT FOR DISPLAYING A BOOK OR BOOKS! Oh no! You have to laboriously alter the font (and size, and color, and so on) of every different part of the template, dealing with the horribly broken scaling feature every step of the way — and in most cases, you have to guess which part of the template corresponds to which part of a book and then go back to see what actually happened. And because of the variance in tagging between ebooks, a style that looks OK in one book will be completely unusable in another. There are many other problems with the app, but I hope that gives you enough info to avoid it like the plague. Unfortunately, I havent found anything to match Stanzas beautiful ease of use, extensive but user-friendly and well-designed feature set, and beautiful rendering of books, but i2Reader isnt even remotely acceptable as a substitute.