Please add book descriptions in the Library view

Hi, it would be really helpful if the description stored in a book’s metadata could be made accessible throughout the interface, not just in the Discover secti…

You should increase the maximum allowable margin setting.

In portrait the maximum setting is ok but just barely. But in landscape I'd prefer more.

Remove margin limit

Would it be possible to let the user enter a custom margin value by clicking the number or something if they want more than 60? I managed to manually edit the s…

A few quick comments

Very excited to see something native that might replace Books. A few things I noticed right off the bat, which may already be on your roadmap, when I loaded a random epub ("The Sword & Sorcery…

Import from Anywhere (iOS)

Import EPUBs directly from Files, Safari, email, or any other app using the iOS share sheet.

Book Series

It would be great to add the book series to the metadata

Trackpad Swipe Navigation

Swipe left and right on the Mac trackpad to turn pages. A natural gesture for navigating through books without using keyboard arrows or clicking.

Publisher Style Toggle

A toggle to switch between the publisher's original CSS styling and your own reading preferences. Some books have carefully designed layouts worth preserving, while others need overriding for readabil…

Inconsistent Calibre Folder Import

When importing my Calibre library using the folder method I am finding that the description often (but not always) does not get imported in Bookshelves. Also, t…

pinch-to-zoom gesture

I would suggest adding support for the standard iOS pinch-to-zoom gesture, allowing users to enlarge the text by placing two fingers on the screen and spreading…

Sort also by author‘s last name

I have a huge library of books, over 6000, and all of them have the author‘s name in their metadata in the following form: "first name, (middle name), last name…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

[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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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

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.

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…

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!

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…

Text-to-Speech

Listen to your books read aloud. Have any EPUB narrated with natural-sounding voices on both macOS and iOS.

Reading Statistics

Track your reading habits — time spent reading, pages per session, streaks, and progress over time.

Book Tracker

Set reading goals, maintain reading lists, and track books you want to read, are currently reading, or have finished.

Library Backup & Restore

Export your entire library (books, highlights, reading progress) and restore it whenever you need — full peace of mind.

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…

Add KOReader and BookOrbit sync

I currently run a BookOrbit server that allows KOReader progress sync. I can download the books from my BookOrbit server using OPDS. But it would nice if I coul…

S3-compatible cloud storage for book libraries

Store and access your book library directly from an Amazon S3 bucket or S3-compatible storage (MinIO, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, etc.). This would allow users with large libraries to keep…

More options for cloud sync

I personally use google drive as my main form of cloud storage so I’d love to be able to back all my books there instead of iCloud

Gestures to change brightness and font size

Drag up on the left edge to increase brightness and inversely drag down to decrease brightness Likewise drag up on right edge to increase font size and drag do…

Feature Request: Remote Library Support (NAS/WebDAV) with On-Demand Download

First off, thank you for building BookShelves, the iCloud sync and reading experience are fantastic, and OPDS support already shows you understand the self-host…

Shelf indicators

One of the glaring issues with apple’s books app is when you have all books listed, none indicate which have been allotted to a specific folder e.g. recipes, in…

About page scroll mode

The reading mode in the settings can be selected between scroll mode and page-turning mode, but whichever of these is selected, it will only function in scroll …

Access BookShelves Library Through iCloud Drive

First, thank you for creating BookShelves. One feature I’d love to see is access to the library files through iCloud Drive. While BookShelves syncs via iCloud,…

Different covers and color background on the front covers

You guys had to test out your ass and put in box in because when I do mine, you know what you get no other I only get five books in there and then the next one …

Google Drive support

Add Google Drive as an alternative cloud storage option for syncing and storing your eBook library. This would allow users who prefer Google Drive over iCloud Drive to keep their books synced across…

Dropbox support

Add Dropbox as an alternative cloud storage option for syncing and storing your eBook library. This would allow users who prefer Dropbox over iCloud Drive to keep their books synced across devices.…

Both Margins Advance

For left handed reading on an iPhone, make an optional setting so that when touching the left side of the screen, the page will advance, the same as the right h…

suggestions re: user customisation

hi, i recently downloaded bookshelves after a stint with calibre. i have always found the calibre UI to be extremely clunky and ugly, and this eventually bothe…

E-ink device optimization / EPUBKit integration

Support for optimizing EPUBs for e-ink devices (like Boox, Remarkable, etc.) and potential integration with tools like EPUBKit (epubkit.ink) that reformat EPUBs for e-ink screens. This could include…

Custom Fonts, especially for non-European languages

I sometimes read Japanese and Korean e-books, but since BookShelves does not include fonts that cover those languages, they are only shown in the ugly default f…

Readium LCP DRM support

Support for opening ebooks protected with Readium LCP (Licensed Content Protection), the open DRM standard used by public libraries and bookstores worldwide. LCP is the modern replacement for Adobe…

Onleihe library integration

Read ebooks borrowed from the German Onleihe (public library lending service) directly in BookShelves. Onleihe is the largest digital library lending platform in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland,…

Browse library by Author with book counts

As a user with a large library (2,000+ books imported from Calibre), I'd like a dedicated Authors view that: 1. Lists all authors in my collection alphabetically 2. Shows the number of books per…

Add OPDS servers to sidebar

And make them browsable like the Discover ebook feeds.

Send to app

It would be great to be able to send the book to a different app.

Sorting by series and author's surname

Your app is great. However, I would love to be able to sort my library by author's surnames instead of first name, and then by series' order. I painstakingly made sure in Calibre to add all the series…

OPDS server entry

I tried to create an entry for my calibre server. The field gave an uneditable URL and I wanted to just change the port. The cursor would not move from the end of the URL. When I typed it just stayed…

Order of titles according to publication date

I usually make sure to keep my collections divided by series and especially by publication date so that I can read them in sequential order. It would be very useful to be able to do this. It is not ev…

Physical paper page turning

Would be lovely to have the same page turning animation Apple Books has!

Image zoom move

Some books include maps and other highly detailed images or technical drawings. Would be cool to pinch/zoom in to detailed areas etc. Don't see any image options on macos, and some on ios (copy, email…

Wall of highlights and MacOS widget to display quotations/highlights

An aggregation of highlights from the different books we have in the library - I don't know if people like this so it could be optional. Then a macOS widget so that we can see the quotes and the highl…

Navigate library using keys - macOS

I would like to move around the library with keys e.g. up/down arrows and page up/down.Even if I have the focus on the currect pane e.g. highlight a book the arrow keys affect the left pane only,

OneDrive support

Allow book files to read and write to a OneDrive account. Other cloud storage services would be great too.

custom themes

Would be nice if the user could define a custom theme (background and font color). Currently I simply edit the reader.css and modify one of the existing themes, but this will be overwritten with the n…

Feature Request: External Storage & iCloud Offloading Support

Hello, I hope you're doing well. First, I want to say that I absolutely love your app, BookShelves eBook Reader. It's one of the best solutions I've found for managing and reading ebooks in multiple…

I like it. I'm using it on a weekly basis. One feature I used a lot in other apps is 'Finished + date'. And the ability to sort by finishing date. Recent read books are the one I want to see at top. Keep up the good work.