Bluefire Reader App Reviews

This app often has very delayed response time when trying to flip pages or do anything else in it. This makes it very frustrating to use.

Needs a proper support for CMYK PDFs. I rented a book and all the colors are wrong. Even Adobe digital editions for iOS supports CMYK.

This is one of those apps where you wonder if the developers use it themselves. Ive tried using it for DRM-protected comics and its just painful. Pages take many seconds to load, making reading nearly impossible. This is on a 12" iPad Pro, currently the most powerful iOS device. Im guessing its even more brutal on slower ones. Maybe its OK for just text.

It could be so much better. Especially the highlighting, Im ready to print the document out. I wish I could turn off the next page feature when my finger accidentally taps the side of the page. I am stuck with this app, so frustrating!!!

Better than iBooks: more fonts and themes, can adjust margins Worse than iBooks: poor note-taking, some things not rendered properly As bad as iBooks: sluggish at times

Im taking an online course and this was the only way for me to download part of the content, which is very unfortunate because this app is slow and frustrating to work with.

The loss of orientation lock is a mystery. Why remove functionality? I use this to read books from my local library. It serves its purpose in that, but its frustrating now to read books laying down when the orientation flips

I love this app & that there have been features added features to it since I first started using it. I love being able to read the copyright protected ebooks I have purchased from websites like christianbook.com or harlequin.com. Suggestions for new features: -Add series to the item info and allow me to sort my books by series. Some of the authors I love to read have written over a hundred books and it is hard to find the items in the same series when there are so many. -Allow us to share a quote on Facebook or Twitter from a book we are reading, so others might want to read it too. Thanks for the great app!

Worst app ever. Crashes constantly, takes forever to load between pages. Reading on this app impossible.

I have trouble with my vision, particularly with relation to screens. Blue fire reader does not allow readers to increase the size and font of the text. Also, it does not work with the iOS screen reader, and does not offer its own.

Too bad you lose your books when you transfer all your OTHER data and books to your new iPad. Blue fire is gone from my apps now!

Id rathter smoke a fat pound of grass and fall on my *ss faster than the fat witch who sat down too fast than ever use this program again.

Highlighting is terrible. Misses first letter and last section. Very annoying.

I downloaded this to access books from local library. I am unable to access books already checked out. There is NO help.

Yes, as I said. If there were a ZERO star, I would give that. Worst reader ever. Cost me so much trouble and leading me nowhere. Thank you

This is why I never update apps. The entire reason I used Bluefire was because of its orientation lock functionality. I thought maybe something just happened and an update would be released and itd be back, but its been a while and still no update. I guess Ill be looking around for a new reading app now.

I find Bluefire very useable and easy on the eyes for reading, but Im very disappointed that the ability to export annotations to email has been removed. Thats a crucial feature.

Like a number of others, I wouldn’t use this app if I had any other choice. I have begged Hackett (which forces me to use it for academic desk copies) to switch to downloads usable on Kindle. The highlighting function works miserable and is a tedious trial to use. UPDATE: This is a warning that unlike Kindle, Nook, and Google’s Play Books, Bluefire makes nor retains no index or pointers to your books. This means that if you do a restore or get a new iPad, your library will be gone entirely—unless you have gone through (and keep up) the tedious back-up outlined here: 1. Connect your device to your computer and access it via the device icon in the upper left of the iTunes main screen. 2. Once selected, you should see a button for "Apps" in the main iTunes screen. Please select it. 3. From the "Apps" screen, scroll to the bottom where you will see a section labeled "File Sharing," and you should see the Bluefire Reader icon. 4. Select the Bluefire Reader icon, and you will be able to see all of the books in your Bluefire Reader library. 5. Highlight all of the books in your library, and click the "Save To" button, and save the books to a location of your choice on your computer. Update 10-2016 Still a tedious way to read any ebook file, and still with a miserably recalcitrant highlighting facility. I try to dissuade in the strongest terms any of my students from using any e-book that requires this reader.

Painful experience Reading library books on an IPAD is painful, it takes ages to turn pages. This must be due to some bug in the Bluefire Reader. I found by accident that if the IPAD WiFi connection is turned off, the response time is dramatically improved. However, it is a pain to have to turn off the WiFi every time you want to access the Bluefire Reader.

Like a number of others, I wouldn’t use this app if I had any other choice. I have begged Hackett (which forces me to use it for academic desk copies) to switch to downloads usable on Kindle. The highlighting function works miserable and is a tedious trial to use. UPDATE: This is a warning that unlike Kindle, Nook, and Google’s Play Books, Bluefire makes nor retains no index or pointers to your books. This means that if you do a restore or get a new iPad, your library will be gone entirely—unless you have gone through (and keep up) the tedious back-up outlined here: 1. Connect your device to your computer and access it via the device icon in the upper left of the iTunes main screen. 2. Once selected, you should see a button for "Apps" in the main iTunes screen. Please select it. 3. From the "Apps" screen, scroll to the bottom where you will see a section labeled "File Sharing," and you should see the Bluefire Reader icon. 4. Select the Bluefire Reader icon, and you will be able to see all of the books in your Bluefire Reader library. 5. Highlight all of the books in your library, and click the "Save To" button, and save the books to a location of your choice on your computer.