Not exact matches
This is an interesting mix with the iBook's landscape
mode, that simulates the book with greater consistency than the Kindle, as it displays the two
columns of texts as if it were an open
page with a separate verso and recto.
As a comparison, the newest Kindle Paperwhite can not handle this in its
column zoom
mode, it tries to fit the image to the
page which breaks the
column layout, and you have to start over from the beginning.
There aren't any zooming or cropping features and landscape
mode inexplicably shows the entire
page but only on half the screen, so the app is pretty much only useful for PDF reflow, which works well for PDFs that are text only with no images,
columns, or complex formatting.
To avoid losing the zoom, if I lock it then the 2 -
Column mode gets lost when I go to the next
page.
So basically the bug is that if I have zoomed in the 2 -
Column Split
page mode, when I go to the next
page the zoom and the 2 -
Column mode are lost.
Another bug I noticed is that if I custom zoom and lock the zoom in the 2 -
Column Split
page mode, the 2 -
Column split
mode gets confused when I go to the next
page.
On the plus side,
page navigation is pretty good, with a scrollable thumbnail view of the
pages along the bottom that pops up when you use it, and the «article reader»
mode, which formats the text of an individual article into a single, easily - readable
column with adjustable text, is a must - have feature.
When you open your book, you will find a single -
column reading view in landscape
mode, which I prefer to the two -
column or «
page» format that most of the other apps employ.
The only real negative I can find with the various zooming options is that there isn't a
column mode like with PocketBook's ereaders and the Sony Readers, which both will go from the bottom left corner of a
page to the upper right for the next
column, whereas the Icarus Excel just continues to
page down, requiring one to manually use the stylus or the nav controller to pan to the top right for the next
column.
For some reason the latest Amazon Kindle and Kobo eBook apps, on the other hand, only offer single
column views — which look kind of funny when you're holding the tablet in landscape
mode because there are either huge margins on the left and right sides of
pages (Kindle), or very long lines of text (Kobo).