KyBook 3 Ebook Reader for Android

It’s the best offline e-book reader I can find, but as one who read in both English and Chinese, I would be really happy if some features are improved. 1. Lack of support of GBK Encoding. GBK is one of the few encoding methods for Simplified Chinese. This (lacking of) makes some e-books impossible to read in this software. 2. Kind of weird typesetting. Certain punctuations arranged wrongly, e.g., according to the Chinese typesetting rules “》” should never be the first character of a line. 3. Can’t assign font for certain book, only global settings available. This is important because different fonts support (or are designed for) different languages. For example, when trying to use the stock font Georgia to display Chinese characters, it fallbacks to Pinfang (the default Google font for Chinese). And when trying to use my daily drive Chinese font Source Han Serif to display a chunk of English, it displays some punctuations weirdly. It would be okay if one favors sans-serifs, they can simply use Pinfang, but not me. Also, some books (I think) mark the wrong section (that is, the whole book) as sans serif, and some don’t, so I would also need this function if I’m an English-only reader.

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Don’t look any further, this is the app you want to download. It’s clean and sleek and does what you need it to do. No subscription or fees! Perfect app, 10/10!

The dropbox syncing is slow. In KyBook 2 I could just pick the file to download and read. For KyBook 3 It looks like the whole storage has to get read and sync’d. If your dropbox sync is slow and your book hasn’t syncd yet then you can’t read your book. I don’t mind the full syncing but to be honest that doesn’t provide any value to me. I just want to pick a book and read it and this syncing model prevents me from doing that without waiting a long time.

This is a very comfortable app to use and help with the organization of not only your ebooks but also pdf files. I have several pdfs that I use for referencing programming code syntax and this app makes doing those lookups on a second screen so much easier.