8Books app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 2400 ratings )
Reference Book
Developer: Mazen Kilani
Free
Current version: 5.5, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 17 Sep 2016
App size: 40.38 Mb

8Books is for book lovers! The design concept is elegant simplicity, offering an intuitive interface to add your books, and share with the world if desired. Beautiful design, pleasant UI (floating buttons, animated menus, consistent colours) and robust development platform exemplifies 8Apps concept of elegant simplicity.

1. Add your books to your local iPhone (with image, title, author, series, genre/category, source, format, synopsis and notes, read flag and date, and a 5 star rating system), share via your favourite social network (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), add to Spotlight, upload to iCloud and share to Discover (Public Cloud)..

2. Take unlimited photos of your book, the last photo becomes the main and thumbnail in the Books table view, but you can access all photos from the Book Details view.

3- Backup/Upload to your private iCloud account and restore/download on same device (iPhone) or another (iPad) with same account. Compare iDevice to iCloud for complete and advanced iCloud management.

4. Discover all users uploaded book records, shared in the Public Cloud, then copy any book record to your local iPhone or iPad if/when desired by simply touching/tapping the Discover book record (or swipe right to left for a menu of options: Report and Download).

5. In any table view (Books, Discover, iCloud) swipe right-to-left (RtoL) for a row menu of actions. In Books, you can RtoL Share, Delete or Edit and LtoR Flip iCloud Flag. In iCloud, you can Download or Delete. In Discover, you can Download or Report (you can also download simply tapping the book image).

6. When adding a New Book, you can use your iPhone/iPad camera (to capture a new photo) or access your Photo Library and select a photo. If using the camera, a copy of the image will always be saved in your iPhone/iPad photo album (as backup).

7. Book details page allows ratings, edit, upload to iCloud, flag as read, as well as all book details. You can also ask Mezo (friendly robot) to speak the Synopsis for you.

8. Queries show books sectioned and grouped by Author, Series, Genre, Source, Format, Publication Year and Rating Stars.

9. Settings iCloud allows backup and restore of your books within Apples iCloud security.

Explore, Enjoy and Share Your Books!