This is extremely cumbersome when trying to search a text, as many medical folks do or flip through plates - one file I use has 900+ plates which makes this method of flipping pages impractical. Second, to change a page one has to hit 'more' and then hit 'next page' or enter a page number, etc. First, there is no way to zoom in using the iPhone version, this is crucial for looking at anatomy plates. There were two critical things that the Palm based version did that the iPhone version does not do, which would vastly improve functionality. However, it is better than the alternative, which was nothing. Aside from Epocrates this is probably one of the top apps that I used.This version for the iPhone does not seem to have even all the functionality of the Palm version that was available years ago. I originally bought this reader for a Palm Treo and have quite a few medical texts for this format, so was quite happy to see it be released for iPhone.
I suspect or hope that the developers are continuing to update and modify.
Make context menu in document list more discoverable. The fact that tapping hot screen areas gives no feedback - no message, no splurt of white under the finger, no nothing - you don't know if you hit it until you check, combined with poor performance this is quite annoying.Wishlist: Gestures support. The fact, that tapping the bottom of the screen exits fullscreen - it wouldn't be bad at all if that wasn't also the ideal location to tap for next page. The fact that you can't get rid of the humongeous title bar without going to fullscreen. Crashing - but since you get back to where you left off after restarting, it's just a minor inconvenience. Full-featured - this app has almost anything you would ever need in a reader.
Liked: Very easy file transfer - you just put a shortcut in MyNetworkPlaces and use the iPod like any other folder, no real knowledge or software required. Which means you're stuck with a lot of archaic iSilo ways of doing things. I know of no other platforms that allow that kind of flexibility.īut as I said, it's too bad they're not updating such a powerful program to make it truly modern. And with iSiloX: scraping from websites, and being able to produce a SINGLE highly sophisticated linked document from Word that can be converted to multiple formats so that it can be printed, viewed as a web page, converted to a Google doc for sharing and viewed in iSilo on phones or tablets so that you can edit ONE source document and distribute it to all those formats.
It's really too bad b/c it's an incredibly powerful app, able to do a combination of things no other reader can: linking, annotating, wifi transfers, file system - theres a long list of features like this that other apps may have 1 or 2 of, but that's it. This is not surprising given the lack of true high quality upgrading for this app over the years.
The latest upgrade for iOS has removed the ability to copy from within annotations- I wish I could revert b/c I used that a lot.