Great Comic Reader – ComicShare - Streaming Reader Review

I’ve used most of the comic readers available, but just recently discovered ComicShare. I think it’s a great reader, and in my opinion, has the potential to be one of the best available. The first thing that stands out is that it does offer streaming (meaning you can read books from your PC or server, etc without having to download them to your iPad). It also has nice filters so that your books looks great when you are reading. There are a ton of options, which can be daunting at first (some of the translated descriptions of what the options do aren’t very clear), but once you experiment with them a bit you can really customize your setup. It also offers customizable tap regions for your screen, so that you can change what taps in certain areas do, and even change the size of the tap regions. There are a couple things that could use a bit of work, which is why I rated four stars. The main one would be that refreshing your folders so that you can see new books you have added to your server does not refresh sub-folders… meaning you have to go in each individual folder and refresh to see new material. This was the biggest problem I had… it would be great if the sub-folders refreshed and if, in fact, the whole thing just auto-refreshed without having to click a refresh button. There are also a couple features I would like to see added: - There is an option to remove the iPad homebar as you read, but it keeps coming back each time you turn a page. Would love it if that could be permanently hidden. - The biggest feature I would like to see added is a tab under “sharing” that will show the most recently added books to your server. There is an option to sort your shared library by date, but if you have things in sub folders, this doesn’t work very well, and it is still hard to locate books you have just added as you have to hunt through sub-directories (I have a sub-folder for each letter of the alphabet). It would be great to see all those new books on one tab. - I don’t use OPDS, but I know a lot of comic reader guys would like to see support for this, ubooquity, etc… This reader is very good… I’m looking forward to seeing how it develops in the future.
Review by Drybonz99 on ComicShare - Streaming Reader.