Hanbam: Manga & Novel Reader

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A quiet hour to lose yourself in a book before sleep—Hanbam. Gather the comics, novels, and documents on your iPhone and iPad, in the Files app, and on Google Drive onto a single bookshelf, and read them like paper books. No account needed.

KEY FEATURES

■ Every format on one shelf • Comics: ZIP, CBZ, RAR, CBR, 7z, CB7, PDF, images, comic EPUB • Novels and documents: TXT, EPUB, PDF, DOCX, DOC, HWP, HWPX, MD, HTML • Opens archives without extracting them, and separates a multi-volume archive into individual volumes. • Reads old Japanese, Chinese and Korean text files in their own encodings, and lets you switch a book's encoding with a preview. • Bring files in from the Files app, or from another app with Share or Open In.

■ Pages that turn like paper • Turn the page with your finger, in comics and novels alike • Two-page spreads in landscape and on iPad, like a real book • Pages scanned two to a sheet are split into halves • Right-to-left or left-to-right, set per book

■ A comfortable reader for novels • Page turning, vertical scroll or horizontal scroll • Vertical writing: read Japanese, Chinese and Korean novels and documents top to bottom, turning pages right to left • Font size, line spacing, margins, paper color, brightness and tint • Contents, search, bookmarks, highlights and a line-by-line focus mode • Finds the chapters of a TXT novel and builds a table of contents for you

■ Listen while you read (TTS) • Highlights the sentence being read and turns the page for you • Keeps playing with the screen off, with lock-screen controls • Sleep timer, and a choice of language and voice

■ Series and picking up where you left off • Merge books into a series, or split volumes off • Shelves for books you're reading, newly added, finished and your own collections • Rename any book, and continue right where you stopped

■ Your reading record • Start and finish dates and the time you actually spent reading, on a monthly timeline

■ Import from Google Drive • Bring files you choose on Drive straight to your shelf, with pause and resume • The app only sees the files you pick

■ No sign-in, on your device • Your files are read on your device and never sent to a server. • Export your reading record and settings to a backup file and restore them on another device.

Comics in the screenshots: Pepper&Carrot by David Revoy (CC BY 4.0)