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I wish MacOS had a good ePub reader that did not insist on multiple column view and runs as a standalone app. Kind of sad XULRunner got killed or I could run E

• robin_reala 7y ago
  Apple Books? Switching it to single page view is pretty trivial.
  • mikl 7y ago
    True. I wish there was a setting to make single column permanent, but having to press Cmd-1 when opening a book is not too much of a hassle.
  • fouc 7y ago
    iBooks app? You have to fiddle with the size of the window and once you get one column, it ends up with ridiculously huge margins on it.
    • robin_reala 7y ago
      It was renamed to Books in Mojave. Either way, you can just select View / Single page from the menu and it resizes to a single column view with normal margins. That isn’t supported in full screen view tbf.
      • fouc 7y ago
        Yeah I prefer a single column while keeping the window at the full width of the display. It tends to shrink the window to fit it's preconceived notions of "vertical rhythm" as they call it in the text world I guess - or usually trying to keep the width to 70-80 characters. I don't like this though
• Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  It looks like there was a really nice one around seven years ago, called Bookle. All of the reviews from the time seemed to love it. Unfortunately, it's no longer available for sale. I searched high and low for a copy, and even emailed the developer. Their response made me quite sad: "I'm afraid that I don't know that I even have a build at this point." Who knows if it would even work on modern macOS, but I bet it would, as long as it was 64 bit. macOS's backwards compatibility is better than some seem to imagine.