Bluefire Reader Reviews – Page 9
5/5 rating based on 204 reviews. Read all reviews for Bluefire Reader for iPhone.
Bluefire Reader is paid iOS app published by Bluefire Productions
Just a few complaints
Brad L "Ski"
Esthetically this is one of the more pleasing readers for iPhone. Size, color, margins, and line spacing settings are easily configured by a novice user. My complaints are: 1) No option to resume reading on open. I dislike having to reopen my book every time I exit the program. This seems like it would be easy to fix. 2) The RGB scales from 1 to 100 instead of a 256 scale like normal. It makes it difficult to get known color values. Other than those complaints it time very smoothly and I haven't had a single crash. This has quickly become my go to reader for iPhone.
Doesn’t highlight PDF books properly
breitenrain5
The app is pretty good overall but it doesn’t highlight text properly in PDF books. This is a serious flaw if you read textbooks or other books you want to highlight a lot. The problem is that, when you hold your finger on a word, the app is very slow to recognize that you are trying to begin highlighting (up to several seconds) and you have to place your finger exactly over the first letter of the word (not anywhere on the word). If you don’t manage to do this - my success rate is maybe 50% after weeks of practice - you may not be able to manually reposition the cursor to begin at the first letter before the highlight feature disengages. After you highlight several short passages the app seems to get “fatigued” and it can take up to 10 seconds for the highlight to register. You also can’t delete a highlight on the page - you have to go into the notes section and find the page where the highlight is, which is very time-consuming. Also, if you don’t manage to exactly hit the first letter of a word but do manage to manually drag the cursor to the beginning of the word, the notes section doesn’t recognize that you want to start the highlighting at a point earlier than where you first put your finger, and cuts off the first part of the word. Highlighting on the Bluefire app is Kafkaesque. It’s completely baffling how a developer could get a basic feature so wrong. I have no problem highlighting PDFs using the iOS Kindle, GoodReader, or Apple Books apps, but those apps don’t work with Adobe DRM protected PDFs. If these apps can get it right, it’s not clear why Bluefire can’t.
Simple and effective
Farmer guy 82
The syncing to Dropbox is key. Basically the kindle app for ePub people. Worth a download.
Id then login
Apersonwithaanswer1
I make an account, now enter ur ID, (it doesn’t mention which part of what i created is the id) i go to help page. Then I enter my email as the id because they talk about logging in on different accounts using id. Then I enter Id and password. And it doesn’t work, I just made it, what a pain.
The books are there but don’t display
shindoverse
I just downloaded this app to read some library ebooks formatted by Enki. Once I logged in, the book file shows up but nothing shows up on the screen when I open it. The same goes for a user guide on the app and a sample book (Treasure Island).
Terrible for textbooks
J :)
Really, really bad app for a protected textbook I was only allowed to download onto this ereader. The app freezes every time I try to read the textbook, making its download useless. Deleting this app and going back to reading it on the website...
Steamy and suspenseful
Katrina Jay
I really enjoyed reading this one. It was a quick read like it’s sequel, and just like it’s sequel full of some steamy scenes and suspenseful scenes as well. Alessandra has way of keeping you on your toes and making you wonder what is going to happen next, is the villain really going to get away or not? Is the couple going to be able to wade through the heaviness to come out I. The other side lighter or will it weigh them down? This book didn’t disappoint.
Bluefire reader
NurseKillsHitman
Retired nurse with excellent computer skills and competent using lots of apps. Wanted to read the book about Edward Wayne Edwards by John R Cameron since I am writing a true crime memoir. Multiple attempts to access the book unsuccessful. Disappointed in my first and likely only experience with this app.
Too many crashes
Richpond
Had been our primary and often used reader for years. In the past month or so it has been crashing several times per day. Complete removal and re-installation hasn’t helped. Have to give up on it. (Mostly used on one year old iPad Pro with latest iOS and lots of available storage.)