What apps are people using on IOS to read, with a brail display, books purchased or downloaded?

Hi,

No wonder brail is a dying skill. It seems exceedingly difficult to find a way of reading a book which doesn't have issues. What follows is my experiences and issues with various apps I've used to try and read books on my brail display whilst connected to my iPhone.

1. The Kindle app: The up side of kindle is it resumes exactly where you left it. The down side is, for some reason, these days, it likes to jump over large swaths of text which requires backing up through the text to find where you were which makes it frustrating and, to my mind, unusable Also, reading through the library in the app seems broken. If you move to the first element on the screen it skips over the library and you have to back through it, no good if you have a large library..

2. Apple Books: This works okay though at the end of each page it reads, action available, which seems to occur every few lines which is annoying, though maybe not a deal breaker. Added to this I can easily import books downloaded from RNIB by opening them on my mac, this is good. Still, that wasted space every few lines of, action available, is highly annoying.

3. Dolphin Easy Reader: Doesn't change pages as you scroll. The app is also kinda clunky. Avoid.

4. BookShare Reader: I lied and said I was living in America and was able to sign up and pay for a BookShare account. The issue with this one, unless you leave a bookmark, it doesn't return to your last reading place, which is kind of ridiculous.

These, as I see it, are the only options. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know. All have their advantages, kindle picks up from where you left off, apple books allows for easy importing from books downloaded from libraries, easy reader is the only app on IOS where you can access RNIB libraries, and BookShare seems okay, but not really viable for most outside the US.

Added to this, flaky connections to the device (I'm on an older display), and the act of relaxing whilst trying to improve my brail literacy quickly dissolves in to me giving up. Surely there is something easier or better than this?

I'm aware of the BI20X from HumanWear, which I'd like to purchase at some point, but I don't really have the money at the moment and, besides, I have a perfectly good display in the Vario Ultra 20.

My ideal is an app where:

1. It scrolls correctly.

2. It resumes my place when leaving and returning to the app.

3. Allows for import of books or in app purchase.

Do you have any ideas? I just want to chill and read rather than encountering these seemingly small but significant issues. Is there really no IOS app that simply works to read books without these niggling issues that ruin the experience?

If the kindle, as in the hardware, had brail support, I'd get one like a shot. I did try the fire tablet, but the scrolling buttons on my display didn't seem to be mapped meaning you had to use brail chords to advance the text which, again, is no good for long reading sessions.

And maybe that's the problem. A little niggle, when magnified by a long reading session, becomes a big issue. Brail is already slower and harder than sighted reading, on an intellectual level, of course brail is easier than sighted reading if you can't see, so we need as smooth a time of it as possible to make it more attractive than the good old audio book but, if you're anything like me, sometimes a bit of silence is nice.