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mattcurtis··on APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames
This isn't true of apps such as viewers/readers that use App File Sharing.
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Syncing is not supported yet, but will be soon. Follow Hyphen on twitter for updates: http://twitter.com/hyphenreader
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Hello! Quick question: what triggered this bug for you?
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
I like the Knuth/Plass technique as well, it creates much more uniform and visually appeasing line margins. The reason something like it would be so difficult to implement is that it requires heavy geometric processing every time the content reflows, which would impact Hyphen's performance a lot. Another issue I see is that it would pollute an ePub's DOM more than I'd care for.
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
I think Marvin is great. However, imo, Hyphen differs quite a bit, and offers a more - deeper customization options, Goodreads integration, ADE pages, metadata lookup, emphasis on speed and ease, and so on.

Take the free version for a spin and let me know what you think.

mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
That screenshot has justified text, you can use left, right, and center alignments as well.
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Hi st3fan,

Sorry to hear that. What consistencies are you referring to?

mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Thanks Johnny!
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
This is perfect, thanks! I've added it to the issue tracker: https://github.com/hyphen-reader/hyphen/issues/9
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Yes, @HyphenReader (http://twitter.com/hyphenreader) is the best way to stay updated.
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
There is absolutely hyphenation support - you can toggle it on or off in settings, but it is off by default.
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Thanks spinchange, that means a lot!
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Yikes. Is that an iPad Pro? If you could share more details that would be great. There's also the issue tracker you may be interested in: https://github.com/hyphen-reader/hyphen/issues
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Hello sim,

- I'm in the process of making more page turn modes available: https://github.com/hyphen-reader/hyphen/issues/4

- I'll look into CJK support. If you could offer examples of where you see it handled well, etc., that'd be great.

Thanks for the feedback.

mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Thank you, I'm glad you think so. :)
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Will do!
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
There is, sort of, but iBooks makes this difficult to all but the most stout-hearted.

If you visit `~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books/` on your Mac, you'll find extracted versions of your `.epubs`, if you've downloaded them into your iBooks Library. The problem is, that in order to be valid ePubs they'd need to be archived again (as a .zip renamed to .epub, which is all ePubs are).

Also, iBooks uses DRM on paid(?) books downloaded from the store, making this more complicated even then.

So, yeah. I've plans for a desktop client that might make importing from iBooks possible/easier, but I'm a little afraid to go barking up that tree.

mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
I'm aiming for "strong and effective in all or most situations and conditions" :)
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Hello dombili!

Thanks for the feedback. :)

- App price not on site: Not quite intentional, no. I plan on changing that.

- Screenshot inconsistency: Hmm. Oh - actually, that is the same part of the book, roughly, I believe the paragraph margins changed, however. Something to fix.

- Mac version: Yes, actually. Right now I'm stabilizing Hyphen, but once I've done that and implemented Syncing, there will likely be a Mac version.

mattcurtis··on Sleeping in Is Slowly Killing You, Study Finds
TLDR: Sleeping isn't killing you, unideal sleeping patterns are
mattcurtis··on Show HN: Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS
Hey pseingatl,

Android has MoonReader, which is nuts as it is! :P

But who knows - it's not in the plans, but Hyphen may expand to Android at some point.

I take it you're an Android user? :)