Clearview Reader For Mac
If you are the kind of person who loves reading books a lot and maybe people have even started calling you bookworm, you will be glad to know that you now have a new way of feeding your reading hunger. You can now use your Mac to read various kinds of books. The days are gone when you kept your eyes opened in front of papers. Although Macs do not come with the exact apps you would need to read books, there are some apps that you can load later on your machine to get started with getting the knowledge of the world. Here are some of the best eBook readers for your Mac.
1. ClearView
I think the name says enough about what the app provides to the users. ClearView enables Mac users to read books quickly, clearly and efficiently without much hassle of clicking here and there to get to different functions. It supports a number of eBook formats including PDF, EPUB, CHM and MOBI, literally all the formats you would ever find on the Internet. The features include bookmarking pages, making annotations and searching freely all over the book. It makes things much simpler, doesn’t it?
2. Calibre
Calibre is yet another eBook reader for Mac users. Although you may not find the user-interface to be the best in the world, it is still a good reader to get on your Mac. It allows for conversion of eBooks, as well as editing eBooks so you can add your content right into the book. You can even add a couple of notes about the topic you are reading.
The app is available for a number of platforms including Windows, Mac and Linux.
- Is there a tabbed PDF reader for Mac OS X? Ask Question. Does anybody know if such a PDF reader exists for Mac OS X? I have had a look at Adobe Acrobat Reader, Skim, Preview.app, PDF Pen. Do you know if Clearview Reader saves annotations inside the PDF or in their own database?
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- What's special with Clearview reader? Easy and intuitive books management. Just drag the folders containing e-book files from finder and drop on the Clearview shelf, all the files information will be imported to the library quickly, then you can browse, search and read the books from shelf easily.
- Clearview is an eBook reader you can download from the Mac App Store. In the face of free competition from Apple, this app needs a few features you won’t find on iBooks to justify the price tag. In the face of free competition from Apple, this app needs a few features you won’t find on iBooks to justify the price tag.
- Calibre is yet another eBook reader for Mac users. Although you may not find the user-interface to be the best in the world, it is still a good reader to get on your Mac. It allows for conversion of eBooks, as well as editing eBooks so you can add your content right into the book.
The newest app on the Mac eBook reader scene, Bookinist is the app that prompted us to write this article. It’s a brave shot at making a nearly perfect iBooks clone, months before Apple is set to release iBooks for OS X with Mavericks release. Clearview is an easy-to-use tabbed style e-book reader for Mac, equipped with library shelf, supports popular e-book formats as PDF, EPUB (DRM free), CHM, and MOBI. You can make annotations, insert bookmarks, and do searching freely.
3. Kindle for Mac
Kindle has proven to be the best tool for reading books, and maybe that is why Amazon thought they should make it available for the large population of Mac users as well. Lo and behold, here we have the Kindle for Mac. Comprised of all the great features of the original Kindle, the app lets you explore all the books you have purchased from the store and the ones you have been keeping on your device before you came to know about the app.
The furthest page read allows you to pick up the page where you left off the last time you were reading the book regardless of what device you had with you at that time. If you ever come across a word you do not know the meaning of, you can try the lookup service and it will tell you the meaning of the word. With a number of reading modes, it makes reading much simpler and cooler than ever.
4. ehon
Maybe you are just fed-up of using the same style eBook readers and want something more, something interesting. then ehon is for you. With the unique features making the app stand out in the crowd, it takes your reading to a whole new level. You can organize your eBooks and have their thumbnails show-up in the library, so you can easily pick the book you want to read.
Conclusion
Reading has been a passion for many Mac users, and the apps above should help organize and read eBooks right on the Mac.
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Easy-to-use tabbed style ebook reader, equipped with library shelf, supports popular ebook formats as PDF, EPUB (DRM free), CHM, MOBI, FB2 and comic books(CBR, CBZ). You can make annotations, insert bookmarks, and do searching freely, and access your notes, bookmarks and book collections across multiple devices.
What's special with Clearview reader?
• Easy and intuitive books management.
Just drag the folders containing e-book files from finder and drop on the Clearview shelf, all the files information will be imported to the library quickly, then you can browse, search and read the books from shelf easily. With book folders and book collections cooperating together, you will find that books organization is such an easy thing.
- Cover flow preview of books.
- Drag and drop from library or finder to construct book collections.
- Capability to edit book meta info and change book cover.
• Tabbed style window make reading smooth and efficient.
With several related books organized in the same window, you do not have to look for and switch between the book windows everywhere. further more, with a shelf tab and book file tabs living in the same window, browsing and reading is so easy.
- Restore multiple closed tabs;
• Powerful searching capabilities.
You can find a book quickly by the file name, content, author, title or publisher.
You can also search in a book for specified texts.
- Sorting search results by page or rank.
• Popular book formats support, PDF, EPUB, CHM, MOBI(azw, azw3), FB2 and CBR(CBZ), with almost the same excellent reading experiences.
- Thumbnails display of book pages.
- Book page color themes (Normal, Sepia, Night time);
- Text fonts adjustment (Size, line height and font family).
- Printing support for all book formats;
• Each of 4 book formats can be presented in four reading layouts. Page flip or continuous scrolling, single page or two columns.
- adjust page margin;
Yes, you can read a EPUB, MOBI or CHM book like a PDF book in a continuous mode, by scrolling pages quickly, you do not have to flip page and a page, and no need to pause to click the next chapter.
• Annotations and bookmarks support on all 4 book formats.
Revisions will be saved in library database automatically, not on the original book files, so 'save changes' prompt dialog won't appear in your smooth reading.
- For pdf, you can also choose (with a preference option) to save annotations to the original pdf file, this way make Clearview a compact editor for pdf;
- Line, arrow, rectangle, ellipse, highlight, strike, underline, free text, comments - for PDF annotations;
- Note/Comment, highlight, strike, underline - for EPUB, MOBI, CHM annotations;
- Customizable annotation colors and line width;
- Export PDF with annotations;
- Export notes as RTF file, pdf or print;
- Export/convert epub/mobi/chm book as a pdf book;
• Syncing annotations, bookmarks, book collections and meta informations with iCloud
You can read a book make annotations to it on multiple Macs and sync them with iCloud.
IMPORTANT: No support for DRM protected ebooks! (Such as many of the books sold on iTunes or other book stores)
If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to write to canoesoft@gmail.com, we are sincerely happy to listen to, talk to and help you.
If you want to try before buy, please download the trial version at the Canoe Software website.
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Ratings and Reviews
beefy
Decent for less money - It’s like a browser, except buggier (spinning pinwheel). Features are nice, like change the font. It can open PDF, mobi, etc., and keep them in tabs, sometimes the name gets compressed to small to read. In book search and find.
Biggest beef is navigation - Certain books which are navigable in other apps or browser reader extentions become long scrolls.
Second beef is non-communication with the developer. I’ve written three emails with zero response.
Searching is really nice - highlight a word, search in book, library, OSX dictionary or browser search - search within library takes you to all the places INSIDE other sources with the searcable word or phrase.
Kindle Reader For Mac
Recent releases extremely buggy
I relied heavily on Clearview for a long time for helping me organize PDFs, and I have dozens of libraries on my 3 Macs collecting PDFs into various topics or date-based collections, for work and home use. Starting a few months ago, Clearview began getting flaky, with long startup times and occasional crashes. With the previous release, it began freezing with a spinning beach ball at launch, with a dialog open asking whether to open previous windows or not (it would freeze no matter which option is selected). In Activity Monitor, not only could you see that Clearview is unresponsive, but you could also see it consuming ever more and more memory. I was hopeful the bug would be fixed with this 'bug fixed' release, but no luck. After updating, within a couple minutes after launch it's consumed over 3 GB of memory, and the beach ball is still spinning.
I've written the developers several times about this bug over the last couple months; there has never been a response.
If you like Clearview and are investing time creating libraries in it, beware. Not only might you lose all that work, but the developers will offer no help to you whatsoever.
Extremely Useful and beneficial for reading pdf's
Best Reader For Mac
I have been using this PDF reader for the last 7 years. I can honestly say taht I' have seent he program go thru ups and downs but have always seen the bugs get fixed. Maybe not as fast as some companies like Adobe, but this app functions SO much better than adobe acrobat. It is well worth the price paid.
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OS X 10.9 or later, 64-bit processor
E-reader For Mac
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Clearview For Mac
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.