BookShelves
HG
#895
Import tags from Calibre
I have a large library I imported from Calibre. Unfortunately tags and series information are not imported and it is quite cumbersome to have to manually add ta…
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MR
#905
Feature requests
1. There should be an easy way to import books from Apples Books program. I grant, this might not be possible for books, bought in Apple's Bookstore? 2. As an o…
LO
#903
Thumbnail view of all PDF pages?
For PDFs, is there a way to view thumbnails of all pages? I use a lot of art books that I don't read page-by-page; I am looking for the option of seeing an over…
AL
#894
Nested shelves / sub-shelves
I am looking for a new e-book-reader app and I desperately search the possibility to organize my books in nested shelves. For instance, in the the shelf "Krimis…
JB
#875
Reading Stats page
I just updated my app and saw that we can now drag and drop our shelves! Thank you so much for this update. I absolutely love your app. I would LOVE a statisti…
LF
#872
Option to Group Shelves and Hide/Show them with a click on the Group
I have accumulated 20 shelves now and the UI has become somewhat crowded. A feature like this would be really helpful to declutter things.
LO
#870
Auto-scroll please
Would like auto-scrolling with easily adjustable scrolling speed. This feature's on the apps from Readest and Pockbooks, and it's really an excellent feature. A…
AL
#834
Interactive Table of Contents on the Left Sidebar
Hi there, I'd like to suggest a feature of having an interactive sticky ToC on a sidebar, so that one could jump around the chapters while reading. Here is an…
YL
#829
Browse or Filter Books by Rating
BookShelves already lets you rate books (0–5 stars) and mark them as favorites. While there’s a Smart Shelf for favorites, I couldn’t find a way to browse or fi…
LF
#827
[Feature Request] - Name Bookmarks
Sometimes I get nonsensical titles for a bookmark like this one. It would be neat if one could rename them manually.
BA
#752
Chapter switching and no page-turn animation
Issue 1: Chapter switch shows a jarring loading state When moving to a new chapter, the screen briefly clears to a solid background color with a loading spinner…
KF
#801
Additional fonts, or the ability to add them
I’m a fan of Athelas and fonts like it for reading on my iPad. Would be great to have more options.
OS
#800
amazing … bot no overview / thumbnails view?
It´s an amazing app. Right balance of functional and nice to use. Things like annotation , serarch, organizing – all well done. Given that I was mildly disappo…
HK
#799
Full Library Keyword Search
Is it possible to implement a full library keyword search? I'd like to use the app mainly for cookbooks and store over 100 within Apple Books currently. Sometim…
UC
#798
Improvements in showing pictures in books ( in sience books)
- Don‘t split pictures over two pages - It should be possible, to enlage pictures over the screen
LF
#749
Set custom font from all installed fonts on the machine
I really like FastFont and others and would like to use it in the app.
C
#750
Feature Request: KOReader Sync (Kosync) Support
First off, thank you for building BookShelves! Finding a modern, native, privacy-first ebook reader and library manager for the Apple ecosystem has been amazing…
DR
#748
Sort by publication date
I think that for people like me who read a lot of book series, it's really helpful to be able to organize the books by year of publication!
AP
#21
Hide top bar on iPhone and iPad
I am mostly using this app to read PDFs on iPad. When I open a US Letter sized PDF on my iPad, the top of the screen still shows the standard iPad top bar with the clock, wifi icon, etc. Could you ple…
BD
#58
Text-to-Speech
Listen to your books read aloud. Have any EPUB narrated with natural-sounding voices on both macOS and iOS.
BD
#56
Reading Statistics
Track your reading habits — time spent reading, pages per session, streaks, and progress over time.
BD
#55
Book Tracker
Set reading goals, maintain reading lists, and track books you want to read, are currently reading, or have finished.
BD
#54
Library Backup & Restore
Export your entire library (books, highlights, reading progress) and restore it whenever you need — full peace of mind.
P
#12
Series grouping & "about book" metadata
It would be great if you could give additional space for us to add description text to a book. I didn't think I would need it having been an Apple Books user for so long since it doesn't provide that…