Abandoned? – KyBook 3 Ebook Reader Review

I was fairly bullish on this app in my original review (see below), but since that was written it seems that the developer has abandoned this product. After a flurry of work early on, there hasn’t been a release in years. More disturbing, the developer has stopped responding to queries about bugs/issues. ======================= I get it; software developers have to eat. But I find the release of “new” versions of payment apps to be irksome — especially when one has just paid for a previous version. There has to be a cleaner, more equitable method of handling this problem. As other reviewers have noted, the developer of KyBook has supplemented the pay structure of this app by allowing users to “subscribe”, which allows the syncing of e-book metadata, reading positions, bookmarks, etc. I have no philosophical objection to this; but no real interest in it either. The interface for 3 is better than 2’s, but not a *lot* better. I still sometimes struggle a bit trying to figure out how to do something. And it sometimes takes quite a few taps to complete a task that I think should require fewer. And, perhaps because it’s a relatively new app, there are a few other quirks; for example, certain app sequences cause the text to reflow in a rather distracting/annoying fashion. This is something of a “ jackknife” app; that is, it does a lot of thing well. There are more specialized apps that can perform better in certain circumscribed circumstances. For example, I’ve noticed that GoodReader will work with certain problematic PDFs which KyBook chokes on. But I *do* appreciate that jackknife quality of Kybook’s.
Review by Canavansbackyard on KyBook 3 Ebook Reader.