Scarlett for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By ToxicZebra

  Utterly non-functional

  This app is utterly non-functional. Purchase it at your peril. I have only a modest collection of ePub books, 23 in total. They are all DRM-free and are all completely readable within iBooks. Nearly half of them are completely unreadable within Scarlett. As just one example, my copy of The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, which works flawlessly on both my iPad and my iPhone within iBooks, displays nothing but a chapter list and blank pages when I load it into Scarlett. A search of the book for "Kvothe" (the name of the main character) provides a list of results, but clicking on any of those results to actually view them reveals only more blank pages. As another example, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six manages to display the book's title and a chapter list, but nothing else beyond that. Yet another example, Neal Stephenson's Anathem can't even display a chapter list, it merely shows a list of the *sections* of the book, and no text. Those books that do work function competently enough, but if the ratio of working to non-working files in my collection is at all representative, the odds are not in your favor. If you actually want to use an app for reading ePubs on your Windows, do not buy this app. It does not work as advertised.

  
  
• By mae_

  best option by far

  I've been looking for a decent Windows epub reader for a long time and I'm glad to find a reasonably priced, nice looking one just for reading. Missing: Bookmarking Highlighting Notes Library view -- Would love to have it show my iTunes ebook folder Encoding fixes -- Characters (I've noticed dashes specifically) are displaying as other symbols even though they look right on my iPhone on some (not all) books I don't know exactly how iTunes syncs bookmarks and notes across devices, whether or not it's editing the file, but it would be pretty great if this app opened books I'd read on my iPhone with the info I added. Kudos: Searching is very fast Allows multiple windows

  
  
• By lovetongueattack

  Minor improvements?

  This app is really frustrating. You can literally only read one page at a time. You have to select the next page from a table of contents in a left navigation pane. The keyboard shortcuts that are supposed to take you forward or back between pages do nothing, at least in Lion. I would ask for my money back if I could.

  
  
• By NanoXD2

  Excellent ePub reader

  I found Scarlett to be one of the best ePub readers I could find. I enjoyed the ease of use, the great rendering engine, and the customization in TTS. The only things that could make this better are configurable gestures, continuous reading support, and bookmarks

  
  
• By Alex Sporyk

  Great app but need some minor improvements

  Dear developer please include: 1) continuous reading mode - I hate turn on/of TOC to go to the next chapter. Annoying! 2) Bookmarks - really miss this one. Would be nice to have an option to sync bookmarks with iCloud. 3) Touch navigation. For now prctically everyone has magic mouse or trackpad or laptop with everything… Why not include some gestures - next page/previous page etc… Regards,

  
  

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