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  • MapleRead SE: Also CE with less features. Primarily designed for students, teachers, educators, scholars, researchers, authors, editors, reviewers and life-time learners at all ages.

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[edit] Overview

(from the web site) MapleRead is a beautiful, sophisticated, feature-rich and well-integrated ebook reader app for iPad that will pleasantly change the way you read, learn and organize. There are two editions, SE and CE, where SE is the more powerful edition.

This product supports both ePub (ePub 2 and ePub 3) and PDF (SE version) formats.

[edit] Features

  • Read DRM-free and password-free EPUB books in 3 book styles of your choice:
    • Classic Book: a leather-bound book with customizable leather patterns
    • Modern Book: an unbound book with seamless page transition
    • Modern Scroll: a scroll with rollers at both ends
  • Choose or create your favorite themes with
    • Over 30 beautiful built-in day and night themes with sepia effect to suit your aesthetics
    • Theme Editor for creating your own themes customizing background image and colors of background, text, heading, hyperlink, search highlight, note highlight, vocab highlight
  • Enhance book page layout the way you prefer with
    • High fidelity rendering of publisher's style including embedded fonts
    • Item-by-item application of user's override of text font, heading font, and text layout and column layout
    • Text layout control of hyphenation, line spacing, paragraph spacing/indentation/alignment
    • Column layout control of portrait/landscape column count with adjustable column gap and column rule
    • Paragraph Numbering showing a layout-independent position for each paragraph
    • Over 20 beautiful built-in fonts, including selected Serif fonts, San Serif fonts, and other style fonts
    • A wide range of font sizes covering the range from fine print to large print and beyond
  • Look up words, remember words, mark pages, speak text or mark text with
    • Built-in monolingual/bilingual dictionaries
    • Vocabulary list built automatically as you look up
    • Bookmarking with a choice of bookmarkers
    • Built-in text-to-speech synthesis
    • Note-taking including marking (highlighting) and commenting with 3 priority levels
    • Control of vocabulary display and note display with 3 levels of priority visibility
  • Navigate across the pages conveniently in multiple ways with
    • Anchor button for immediate jumping to the user-defined anchored page
    • Jump-back-and-forth button for going back and forth between two pages
    • Two-level page slider for inter-chapter and intra-chapter page navigation
    • Easy access to Table of Contents, Bookmark List, Note List, Vocab list
    • Fast full text search
  • Gesture control some common things with
    • Tap or swipe to turn/scroll pages
    • Pinch-and-spread to change font size over its entire range from fine print to large print and beyond
    • App-specific or system-wide screen brightness control by vertical swipe gesture
    • Customizable control of page-turning, screen brightness control, and long press gestures
  • Also Read EPUB 3.0 books designed for other writing modes, including vertical right-to-left writing mode (as in Chinese and Japanese) and horizontal right-to-left writing modes (as in Hebrew and Arabic) with corresponding right-to-left (RTL) page progression and user interface

[edit] PDF Features

PDF supported on SE only

  • Read DRM-free and password-free PDF books as unbound books
  • Choose or create your favorite themes with
    • Over 20 beautiful built-in day themes with sepia effect to suit your aesthetics
    • Theme Editor for creating your own themes customizing background image and colors of background, note highlight
    • One unique built-in night theme turning black-on-white pages into white-on-black pages
  • Mark pages or mark text with
    • Bookmarks
    • Note-taking including marking (highlighting) as images and commenting with 3 priority levels
    • Control of note display with 3 levels of priority visibility
  • Navigate across the pages conveniently in multiple ways with
    • Anchor button for immediate jumping to the user-defined anchored page
    • Jump-back-and-forth button for going back and forth between two pages
    • Page-thumbnail slider for full-book page navigation
    • Easy access to Table of Contents, Bookmark List, Note List
    • Multi-page-icon view showing all pages or just bookmarked pages
  • Gesture control some common things with
    • Tap or swipe to turn pages
    • Pinch or spread to zoom out or zoom in
    • Drag to pan

[edit] MapleReader

This is the iPhone version of BookMaster (now converged to a single name)

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