Bookfusion

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Read, organise, take notes on, and share your favourite ebooks

> Free (with limitations); subscriptions from £1.79/month > FROM bookfusion.com > NEEDS iOS 12 or later; iPad OS 12 or later; macOS 11 or later

You can link to your Kindle account and import your books

You can change the font, size and colour of text, as well as adjust margins and spacing to make reading more comfortable.

When the iPad first launched, it seemed like the perfect platform for reading ebooks that, for whatever reason, weren’t suited to e-ink readers like Amazon’s Kindle. In addition to Apple’s iBooks, as it was at the time, several third-party ebook readers launched and created what seemed to be a vibrant, growing market. And then… nothing.

Apple’s app improved and very quickly didn’t just become the standard, it pretty much killed innovation in the ebook space.

That might all have changed with BookFusion, however. This ePub and PDF reader and organiser is more flexible and more open than Apple’s Books app, and plays much more nicely with other platforms, like Amazon’s Kindle for example.

You can link your BookFusion account to your Kindle account and import your books, or you can send books in BookFusion to your Kindle (up to two a month in the free version).

Aside from pulling in your Kindle books, there are several other ways you can add books to a BookFusion library. You can ‘upload’ them from the Files app on your iPad or iPhone (up to 10 in the free version of the app), or you can buy them using the built-in book store. You can also ‘borrow’ them from one of the built-in public libraries in the app, of which there are currently five, including a NASA library, with hundreds of books between them.

A personal book shelf

Once you’ve added books to your library, you can edit their metadata, including the book cover, title, categories, and tags. Books can be organised on shelves or series.