Currently being built
Hi, First of all, thank you for building BookShelves — it's a really clean and well-designed reader. I'd like to suggest adding Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans) localization support to the app.…
In portrait the maximum setting is ok but just barely. But in landscape I'd prefer more.
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…
To take effect requires closing and reopening the book, jumping via a link within he book to a new location, or even just rotating the iPad (haven't tested this…
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 EPUBs directly from Files, Safari, email, or any other app using the iOS share sheet.
In general it does a great job of getting the metadata, in some cases it does not, it would be great to have the option to search or edit manually
It would be great to add the book series to the metadata
Swipe left and right on the Mac trackpad to turn pages. A natural gesture for navigating through books without using keyboard arrows or clicking.
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…
Committed and planned
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…
Listen to your books read aloud. Have any EPUB narrated with natural-sounding voices on both macOS and iOS.
Track your reading habits — time spent reading, pages per session, streaks, and progress over time.
Set reading goals, maintain reading lists, and track books you want to read, are currently reading, or have finished.
Export your entire library (books, highlights, reading progress) and restore it whenever you need — full peace of mind.
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…
Under consideration
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…
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.…
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…
In library when using thumbnail view can there be more than one book in a row? Maybe two?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
And make them browsable like the Discover ebook feeds.
It would be great to be able to send the book to a different app.
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…
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…
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…
Would be lovely to have the same page turning animation Apple Books has!
Downloaded a book on iPad, went back to library page, but icons including + were missing from the upper right.. Rotated and did not appear. Switched between recently added and standard books (I think)…
Downloads seem to freeze or lock the display on ipad when downloading large epub from server. screen became unresponsive. Book did download after a while, but no indication of progress during download…
The EPUB imports are insanely slow for me. My M4 Max also spins up like crazy while doing imports of a large EPUB pile. Does the app convert the epubs? What is it doing? Code compilation takes less ti…
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…
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…
Page jumps when highlighting. I’m using an iPad and it’s on version 1.013
The markers for prev and next page are over the actual text. They should not be obscuring text. I would even prefer them not to be there. I would attach a screenshot if this feedback form would allow…
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,
Allow book files to read and write to a OneDrive account. Other cloud storage services would be great too.
When viewing the chapters listing on MacOS, the first batch of chapters come up, but the interface won't scroll down to reveal more chapters. If you hit the bookmarks icon while the chapters…
I have an epub of a book called Shift. It doesn't render correctly. The PDF version does render correctly. What do you need to help debug this problem? I'm open to helping any way I can. Thanks for…
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…
When switching between different themes using the same ebook, the font is not consistent. Sometimes just different sizes, sometimes serif/non-serif. Is this intentional?
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…
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