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.

I downloaded this app because it seems to be one of the few ways to read .ascm apps on Android. I wasn't satisfied with the options it gave me. I'm still trying to find out why the text to speech is behind a paywall, much less a subscription-based one. Sure, maybe I'd be able to wrap my brain around a one time payment, but a subscription? Text to speech just seems like one of those basic accessibility features for those with bad sight

Review updated 10/9/21. The new update is terrible, NO viewing options!! Can only view collection with giant cover images, not as a list. Since most of my books don't have descriptive covers this is not helpful to me. Also they changed the page view, hate the new one. I've used aldiko for +5 years, but will be switching to a new epub reader.

What's new

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