Yomu EBook Reader is an app that, ostensibly, has only a very simple purpose: allow you to read books on your phone. What’s surprising is that there is so much more able to be included in such a seemingly simple app.
For starters, the actual reading function of the app is fantastic. It’s incredibly simple to just open up the app and get reading. On app installation, Yomu EBook Reader gives you a few free classic texts for free so as to test out the readability and utilities of the app.
The text quality is excellent, as is the page turning and overall feel of the reading experience. This might sound like a strange metric to consider, but many other EBook readers might struggle in this department, offering limited quality or perhaps giving users a clunky interface. Not so in Yomu EBook Reader.
Not only can you simply read easily and excellently with Yomu EBook Reader, you can also use find and look up for within the text itself. The app allows you to search for individual words or phrases within your current text, making it easier than ever to find that one amazing quote you can’t remember in Game of Thrones.[sc name=”quote” text=”The app allows you to search for individual words or phrases within your current text, making it easier than ever to find that one amazing quote you can’t remember in Game of Thrones.”]
To make it even more interesting, the app allows you to freely edit text and titles, allowing you to make custom designations for individual books within your collection. Similarly, you can make custom annotations easily and fluidly from within individual texts at the click of a button, allowing you to make notes for yourself on future re-reads, or to save some piece of information for later research.
With any EBook reader, it is important to be able to source texts from a variety of locations; thankfully, Yomu EBook Reader excels in this department, allowing you to add EBook files from wherever you like, including your own dropbox and googledrive.
What makes Yomu EBook Reader such an interesting app is not so much that it does its job so well – and it does! – It’s that, despite being just a simple utility app, it manages to include so many other functions as to enable a user complete control of their reading experience.
Whether you want to read, annotate, edit or customize in whatever ways, Yomu EBook Reader has you covered.[sc name=”quote” text=”Whether you want to read, annotate, edit or customize in whatever ways, Yomu EBook Reader has you covered.”]
Yomu EBook Reader puts Kindle users to shame, offering a variety of niche custom alterations and opportunities to make the reading experience as pleasant as possible. Not only is Yomu EBook Reader a great reading app, it’s a great example of a utility app being done perfectly.
[review pros=”Excellent editing abilities for such a simple app. The reading interface is excellent.” cons=”Some small parts of the UI can feel a bit disorientating at the beginning.” score=9]
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