# BookyMcBookface

**Repository Path**: longzekai/BookyMcBookface

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: BookyMcBookface
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: GPL-3.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-04-09
- **Last Updated**: 2021-04-09

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# Booky McBookface

An extremely unfancy, slightly broken, bare-bones epub reader. Also reads txt and html ebooks. 

<a href="https://f-droid.org/packages/com.quaap.bookymcbookface" target="_blank">
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quaap.bookymcbookface" target="_blank">
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## Features:
* Completely Open Source: no ads, tracking, or malicious permissions.
* Loads epub, txt, and HTML books.
* Load all books in a directory.
* List of books.
* Sort book list by title, author, or date added.
* Remembers last position in book.
* Page brightness per book.
* Font size per book.


## Reading controls:
* Page forward by using the ">>" button, or by swiping up or to the left.
* Page back by using the "<<" button, or by swiping down or to the right.
* Sub-page scroll by dragging up or down.
* Long press on text to open standard android text selection controls.
* "Contents" button shows the Table Of Contents, if available.
* The magnifying glass icon opens the font-size menu.
* The lightbulb icon opens the page brightness menu.
* Use Android back button to return to the book list from reader.

## Notes:
I've tested with many epubs from [Project Gutenberg](http://www.gutenberg.org/). If you notice 
problems with books from any source, [file an issue](https://github.com/quaap/BookyMcBookface/issues). 

You can use [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com/) to convert other formats like mobi and PDF to epub.

I am not opposed to someone adding support for other formats like mobi, but I don't want to add
third-party jars etc, and everything needs to be GPLv3 compatible.


## Known issues:
* Lag in paging up and down.
* Not actually using "book pages" (just scrolls a big page up and down).
* No bookmarks.
* No "goto page" functionality.
* Changing the font can lose your spot.
* Paging backward sometimes causes a weird downward scrolling, which makes you think you've lost
your spot but you really haven't.