Murasaki - EPUB Reader for Android

Program still works under Catalina, however the Quick Look plugin function is broken.

I have searched and tried many different ePub readers: Calibre, Kitabu, Kindle, Adobe, among others … This one is *hands down* the best one of all. Uses very little memory, it has tab support, and the ePub rendering is almost perfect (I say almost because it’s also dependent on the file’s format). Yes - It’s expensive compared to FREE. But free doesn’t always mean good. Don’t think about it. You can keep your free ones, but if you’re an avid reader - GET THIS ONE!

I use it daily to read ePub files. Stable and simple. Flexible as far as different formats and view. Search works in app and in OSX finder with an added extension to search for text in the file, like a PDF. My favorite is that the user can both scroll through a chapter like a browser, and arrow navigate to other chapters. Buy the Pro version, it’s worth it.

I've tried several other book readers and this is the one I prefer. It's got a very straightforward interface and it does the job. I read normally in iBooks, but there are times when I don't want to import a book into iBooks, so I need a simpler reader. For me, it's Murasaki: I've made it the default app for .epub, for example. Good job.

I’ve been using this for a while, and it has become my default reader for epubs (no drm) on my Android. Pros: it respects the publisher’s formatting, but allows the reader to override pretty much anything using the Ad Hoc User Stylesheet feature. (You do have to know something about css to use this effectively.) The simple fact that it doesn’t ignore lots of css styling features (unlike a lot of reader apps) makes it worth the money. It is the only functional epub reader I’ve found that will read books in epub 3 format without falling back on “backward compatible” features, for example, it actually uses the new epub 3 “nav” document for its sidebar table of contents, instead of the old epub 2 “ncx” document. (I confess, for now, this is mainly of interest to people who like to poke around in the innards of pubs, since few epubs are available in epub 3 format.) Unlike most of the “free” alternatives, it has no annoying features meant to encourage you to get your books from any specific source. Finally, it doesn’t create its own versions of your books hidden somewhere within its own filing system—which can be annoying. It just opens your books and reads them where ever you keep them in your directory. This means that if you tinker with an epub and open a new version, it shows the new version, not the old version. Cons: Bookmarks link to the whole underlying document (usually a chapter) within the epub, not to a point location. So they are essentially useless. There’s no way to add highlights or notes. In summary, if you’re just reading, and don’t need to mark up your epub with bookmarks and notes, I recommend this app.