This niche has been underserved for so many years now, I’d be shocked to see anything decent until Microsoft can catch up to the other platforms. Its not impossible to make a decent reader for Windows, but it is significantly harder by several times. It’s very very difficult to make a program that has pixel precise output scaled perfectly for every display on Windows, you would need at least two significantly different code bases to cover desktop and touch PCs and another for mobile devices where Windows capabilities vary significantly again. Windows users are victims of Microsoft’s inability to make Windows output consistent across the huge range of devices they try to support in their quest to do everything.Ĭompanies like Apple that concentrate on delivering a seamless “experience” across a small range of supported devices have not only had better luck in delivering a consistent experience in the bundled software, they have made is much easier for third parties to do the same. (Thanks to Laura Brady, Tina Henderson, and Jorge Hernández Valiñani for their contributions to this post.) Have any other recommendations for PC Users? I’ll gladly update this post with personal recommendations from our readers. It’s a great tool if you need to do some conversions but I would never recommend it as a reader-and definitely not for a client who wants to test a title.
It’s also good to remind your client that Kindle has a huge share of the market and is far more likely to be read there than a number of other readers in this list. Hey, it’s not an EPUB reader, but if you know the book works well in KF8 it may be beneficial to have your client review it in the Windows version of Kindle Reader. If you have a pure text title it might be worth a spin, though. In my experiences, however, ADE is a real mess when it comes to titles with images in them. The latest version of ADE is much improved over its previous version. Readium’s open source EPUB3 reader renders a large subset of WPUB3, and every client should be able to access Chrome (hopefully!). It’s a bit of a cheat, but it might be the best solution for Windows Users. BlueFire has been a leader on the Readium team and it has put a good effort into its first Windows release. With that in mind, here’s a few decent readers to suggest to your clients using PCs.īlueFire recently released a Windows reader. And nothing is worse than a client sending you a huge list of problems with their title that is actually just a list of rendering bugs from the reader app that you have no control over. While Mac users now have iBooks to push their clients to, Windows is stuck without a great EPUB3 reader.
It’s a dreaded question for many ebook creators. “What can I test this EPUB file with on my Windows computer?”
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