Bluefire Reader Reviews

Bluefire

siliconDreamer

Great reading app very happy with its versatility!!

Certainly the best e-reader on iOS, I think

heh2

The export notes and highlights function is wonderful.

Freezes constantly

jinnine

I’ve used this app for years and found it satisfactory, but several weeks ago it started freezing up and is now impossible to use. Redownloading everything to a new app is a big pain!

Weird bugs in rendering. For some reason the color select is giving odd results. Since that’s why I was trying this reader... it does render things into single pages and is otherwise quite readable and free, which is a plus. I just wish the colors weren’t nearly random.

Good light-weight e-reader

JeremyCaney

Bluefire Reader is a pretty simple e-reader that covers all of the basic features, and works nicely. As with most other readers, it can connect to cloud storage (e.g., for downloading e-books), bookmark content, highlight text, and add annotations. It also has the ability to organize books into collections, which is handy if you have a lot of books. It isn’t as sophisticated as e.g. Marvin, which may be an issue depending on how you engage with the content. For instance, Bluefire doesn’t allow different colors or bookmarks or highlights, nor does it make it easy to copy selected text into an annotation (this is a several step process). That said, it does automatically date notes, and allow sorting them by date or location. The free version doesn’t appear to have any intrusive advertisements or visual impairments, which is nice. Personally, I’d like to see some more features, and especially in terms of organizing, sharing, and synchronizing annotations. But I’m also probably not the typical user here, in that I mostly read non-fiction for work and education, and take careful notes in the process. If you’re just reading e.g. ePubs casually then the features here should suit you perfectly fine.

What happened to my books?

MMills101

Bluefire has always been glitchy, but I have continued to use it because sometimes a book I purchas3 won’t open in my preferred app. So I updated the app, and all the books that were in my library disappeared. Of course, most of these are ebooks that I purchased from on online bookseller that has since closed, so I have no way of retrieving them. Not happy.

The White Houses

Susan's Literary Cafe

I just loved Amy Bloom's White Houses. The love affairs of Elenor, and her lover. From the perspective, and voice of Hitcock. I loved the writing, the prose was poetic. It reminded me of the writing of, Paula McClain. I am a history buff, and Ms. Bloom description made you feel that you time travelled back. With everything exactly in the time. Down to the street lights. I had a difficult time at first reading. Because you think of our president, and First Lady with no flaws. That is not true. We are all human. Just keep that in mind while you read. I enjoyed reading, and recommend it highly.

Worse reader app

Calvin8662

This app doesn't allow you export your highligts, or book reference in order to use it for write paper, only allow to export the page number, it is a very low profile app for academic papers

Voice over is not supported

Wlm Sadie

I continually run up against this obstacle. One would think that in this day and age there would be more support for people with visual disabilities. VoiceOver has really improved my ability to access written materials. However, I am surprised that there is still supposedly excellent software out there that is incompatible with voiceover. I am currently taking a PhD level class I am unable to have full access to some of the library books due to PDFs not being able to be read by voice over.

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