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ShortBook app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 6528 ratings )
Book
Developer: Jury Shortki
4.99 USD
Current version: 10.4.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 12 Nov 2008
App size: 15.04 Mb

ShortBook is an electronic book reader using unique capabilities of your iPhone. It has everything that is necessary for comfortable reading of books in fb2 format: contents, figures, footnotes and unique text makeup. Handy interface allows finding books quickly and reading them with comfort. Night reading mode will reduce discomfort for those who suffer from sleeplessness and Quick Bookmark function will ensure free browsing through a book. Book downloading is available via Wi-Fi being handily implemented through the web browser. For your further comfort there are options of choosing font, its size and other settings.

The program supports dictionaries in XDXF format. Detaining a finger on a word and activating the button of searching through dictionaries, youll virtually in a matter of seconds learn the meaning of the tricky word.

Reading can be quickly restarted after a break with one touch of the screen.

Don’t seek for compromises, use ShortBook. With ShortBook even a big book will become short.

Pros and cons of ShortBook app for iPhone and iPad

ShortBook app good for

This beautiful software reminds me old good Haali Reader for PPC — way comfortable and easy to use. It understands fb2 book format, that means that all my gigs of books still remain usefull. Thank you Jury for great job.
Simply the best of its kind. Великолепная прога, удобство сочетается со стилем.
My reasons for only 4 stars: 1. Needs update iOS4 multitasking. 2. Some kind of "sync" with Google docs or some such. Very annoying to re-download all the books manually after every reinstall. And would be nice if sync would keep status of the books (finished, last read page, etc). 3. iPad version support. Coz 2x looks plain ugly. Otherwise, thank You for a superb reader.
It opens fb2 files from dropbox. Need time for convertation. If you start reading before convertation finishes, program crashes.
This app has become the ultimate e-reading solution to me. Highly recommend
Ive spent thousands of hours with this app during the last couple of years. Literally, this app is what my iPhone runs the most. The interface is extremely useful once you understand the concept behind it. Most of the features are intuitive, but do read the user manual before you start using the app to find even more abilities and find how you can customize the app to suit you the best. The UI is well thought, responsive, and contains many tricks which greatly ease usage and common tasks. It supports dictionaries in open formats so you can attach one and start reading your books in a foreign language you study, knowing you can always translate an unknown word with a couple of taps. And, of course, amazing FB2 support: TOC, inline images, text styles is what I like the best. Must have reader for anyone having an FB2 collection! Thank you guys for your hard work and continuous support of the application all these years!

Some bad moments

Its impossible to use this program. Pages are shaking. Its impossible to return from the links to the text. Complete nonsense! Ive never seen such a stupid application!
Please fix this freakin CRASHES! Each couple weeks it crashES , and dont opens again ! Each time I have to delete it and instal one more time !!! F u c k !!
i must be an infant--i do not see how or where to buy or download books for this 5 dollar app i just bought.
This software is constantly crashing after iOS was updated to 5.0 I would not recommend for purchase until problems are resolved. Программа не стабильна после того как была установлена iOS5. Не рекомендовал бы к приобретению до тех пор пока проблемы не устранены
After installing last update doesnt open any existing book. Says book source not found and a file name. Please, fix! Otherwise a great program, would rate previous version with five stars!
The program may be ok but the support is very poor. Wrote two messages to support, never heard from them. I stopped using it. Too bad, it had promise.