Tomes App Reviews

Bookshelf is an excellent app for ebooks but is a bit overpriced.

I used the original "Books.app" on my iPhone until moving to the derivative "ruBooks". This was one of my "must have" apps for the iPhone. I was a little leery of the $10 price sight unseen, but the addition of the BookShelf software really made it a no-brainer. There are quirks, and features missing from Books.app, and I hope they are rectified in upcoming versions, most notably some quirky behaviour due to the application loading "chunks" of the text files rather than the whole file (probably to make the text files load faster, which they do). I would love to see that become an option, as Id rather have the long load times. Based on the developers previous history, I have faith that well be seeing some great improvements to this very useful application! Ive benn using the iPhone to read books like this for months, and at this point prefer it to a paper book, at times.

Works great. Big user of webscriptions.net (free and paid) so when they started to support this I ended up getting it for my iPhone. I also have other eBooks, and the instructions on setting up ones own shelf server was pretty straight forward. In the previous version I did have some issue, but lately none at all. Issue was usually a "double jump" loading the section after the the one that follows the part I just finished. Having looked around for answers to a few question, I noticed the App developer keeps an eye on any issues reported there. If you have a problem, go to the site and let him know - usually has a soultion and if he doesnt starts looking for one. Definatly recommend for anyone who has bits of time here or there with nothing to do and doesnt like having to carry a book around.

Ive used several PDA style book readers. Bookshelf is by far the most versitile. It smoother than any others offered on iTunes.

Bookshelf is the new improved version of Books, the premier book reader for jailbroken iPhones. It works across a range of formats, it works well and speedily, and its cheap. It also comes with a Java app for finding and installing books. Definitely worth having...

Please identify WHICH formats the program works with. "Multiformat" does not help tell if pdb, prc, mobi, whatever files are among the multi. I notice every program in the app store is similarly coy and I wish they werent. I just downloaded and will be back with a review identifying all the formats I have figured out, but I may well miss one, so would be better if you did it.

Beenwaiting on the iPad and Bookshelf! My favorite reader just got better!

The interface is confusing and I had problems loading files that were large onto the app. I purchased this mainly to read large CHM files and I totally regret the $5 Ive spent. It may work okay for other formats but overall it gave me a bad impression and I deleted the app after a frustrating couple of hours trying to wrestle with it.

Pluses over iBooks: -You can use background colors and text colors - More font options - You can use more than one dictionary - more formats without having to convert to ePub Pluses over Kindle: - all of the above I will almost certainly use until i2Reader is updated to iPad standard

I got it so i could read chm files. I have tried over 50 different chm formatted files and this does not read any of them Bonjour does not work (although it works fine for the other 5 bonjour apps i have) It does read my PDF files but this app makes some of the text run off the page and i cant read it. ( i got PDF pro and it can read the same PDF file fine) This app should be in beta testing and not released. So now i have to purchase another app that promises to to read chm files, and rest assured I wont purchase anything from this goof again Beware!!

The only normal reader for books converted by mobipocket ... Please add option to remove top info portion in full screen mode!

Todays update fixed some nagging problems like internal links not working for the epub reader. I also like the added show image feature.

Been using this app since it came out nearly two years ago. It is poorly supported now and documentation for ShelfServer is out of date. ShelfServer is memory hog if Ive ever seen one. I wrote my own implementation that no longer works because the author has not kept the specification up to date with changes in the client. LAME! DO NOT BUY.

This was a waste of $5. It just plain doesnt work and when it does, it crashes frequently. Downloading from Dropbox (which is why I bought it) is hit-or-miss and if the files do show up in BookShelf, Theyre not in Bookmarks, where the instructions say to look. Ive yet to successfully download an ePub file; BookShelf says the file has downloaded and is indexing, but theres only an error message when I try to open the file. These are not DRMed ePub files, either, but non-DRM files created in InDesign. Maybe someday BookShelf will work, but Id call it a pre-alpha version right now.

… which is to provide an easy and efficient way to read ebooks in non-Kindle and non-B&N and non-Apple formats. Nice design, nice formatting, simple and easy to understand server technology. With this I can download books from Baen Webscriptions, I can upload books from my computer, and I can find books on Project Gutenberg. Works great. No complaints.

i gave this app 1 star simply cuz it says it reads .CHM.... well it doesnt actually and each time i would open a file it would give me an option to view it as html or something else and no matter what am gonna choose it crashes !!!

A book reader was all that was missing from the iPhone. Ive been using Books for months, and I really liked it. Bookshelf is the App Store edition of Books. Its the first new App I put on my iPhone. Getting the books onto the phone wasnt as intuitive as Id thought it would be (thats why only four stars), but now that Ive figured out the process, its smooth as silk. Hooray!

Ive tested all 4 book readers. This one nudges out all the others for me. The Shelfserver desktop app is wonderful for PCs and Macs. The bookshelf app for the iphone is, itself, almost perfect. 3 books read and not a crash yet. I love the ability to customize the book to a different fontsize and colors. The program is very easy to understand yet feature rich. If it were my program, Id add 10 or 12 other fonts and create some more background images. Tap to switch pages is just as good as swiping, but the best? Autoscroll! It works wonderfully! Easy to remove books once youre done reading them (maybe TOO easy, the trashcan is awful close to the lock feature). Overall, I dont think theres a better application for the iphone out there right now!

how to open CHM? no, bookshelf cant open CHM and it crash frequently.

Two thumbs up for this app. There is the hurdle of moving content over that I face with most of this type of app, because I use a PC and an iTouch, but BookShelfs instructions covered that. Once that was behind me, the combination of good user interface and multiple formats supported made this my favored app for ebooks and reading downloaded web content. Between Bookshelf for content Ill be keeping long-term and InstaPaper for web content Ill just read once, Im set.