Cantook by Aldiko

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About this app

Welcome to Cantook! The favorite reading app for the true bookworms.

Bring all your eBooks and audiobooks in the same place, no matter where they're coming from. Available on iPhone, iPad or macOS.

With Cantook, we make it easy to bring all your books in the same place:
• Built-in support for public libraries, allowing you to easily browse your library's catalog and borrow books from them
• Thousands of public domain books from the Cantook Bookstore
• Import your own EPUB or PDF files
• Add your own catalogs, for example using Calibre

Cantook provides an extensive set of features for both casual and power users:
• Customize your reading experience with multiple fonts and themes
• Full support for dark mode throughout the app
• Organize your bookshelf with categories and collections

Our philosophy is to contribute to and leverage open standards:
• Read EPUB files via a Readium Mobile based reading experience
• Explore catalogs using OPDS
• Full support for Readium LCP based on EPUB, PDF and audiobooks

Ratings and reviews

I use this frequently, but the ability to manage files is terrible. When you mark a file/book as "delete from the device" ... it doesnt' i removes it from canook, but the file remains in the file system. Also, when any file is deleted, it still shows in teh interface and can't seem to find a "sync" idea where it will only show the books i have on the device and should be updatable.

This is one of the few eBook readers that utilizes Readium to display EPUB files. However, it has a couple of notable issues: 1. There's a bug in the text-to-speech (TTS) feature when used with EPUBs that include their own media narration. Instead of utilizing the embedded narration, it defaults to Google TTS. 2. In scroll mode, even a slight touch to the left or right of the screen causes an unwanted section change, which can be frustrating as it disrupts the reading position.

Since the last update aldiko gave issues so migrated to this new app. Reading colors are finally fixed. But page turn is horrible. First tap, show android notification bar (specially annoying at night) second tap shows app menu. Thirth tap finally go to the next page. Please allow gently swipe as it was in the old app. For now I use the volume button, but it is not relaxed reading.

What's new

- New book import system supporting background downloads.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.