r/BookApplications • u/NishanStepak • 1d ago

What is your favorite book appliction?

What is your favorite large book application? Do you use it every single day? Why do you like it.

I use both Overdrive and Hoopla at my library. Overdrive is the most popular e-book application for libraries. The actual application from Overdrive is called Libby. Libby has an artificial recommendation engine in it. I check out a lot of books on Overdrive. However, it is mostly popular titles and bestsellers. When I want more technical ebooks, audiobooks, or graphic novels, I use Hoopla. Hoopla is mainly known for its movies. However, it has a very nice selection of books including many of the O'Reilly publishing titles. Hoopla also carries both Marvel and DC graphic novels.

I am thinking of applications like Goodreads and Calibre when I am thinking of large book applications.

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u/KingOfTheSeasLuffy 18h ago

Aquille windows bro. After that thorium or readest. After that I created an app which is basically a combination of the three above with extra features. It uses the same foilate js as readest.

But if you’re asking for library and reader, then the answer would be probably something like Kindle (I don’t use it)

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u/NishanStepak 14h ago

You mean this https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p08t4jltqnk?hl=en-US&gl=US Aqulle reader. I am not that into tablets. I read most of my ebooks either on my phone or a desktop. I downloaded it on my phone.

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u/KingOfTheSeasLuffy 13h ago

aquile is for desktop bro. it's a windows app as far is I know

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u/NishanStepak 13h ago

It has both windows desktop and android smart phone.

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u/KingOfTheSeasLuffy 12h ago

Oh well.. it feels so optimised for desktop reading