While I've had really good success with iBooks on the iPad, finding an ePub reader for the Mac that isn't annoying in some silly way (like iBooks' obsession with pretending to have pages and columns) is harder than one would think...
Readium isn't a terrible (free) Google Chrome extension, but it has its quirks as to window positioning (it's stuck inside Chrome, duh!) and looking at the Mac App Store... Oh, my! So much crap and no idea what actually is decent. As it turns out, the reader I finally found was Murasaki -- a simple app from Japan that presents ePub books as scrollable sections (chapters) and pretty much just does that. It's not cheap by App Store standards, but it does exactly what I need (including the ability to override book styles when needed). Recommended.
The Mac App Store is not as filled with weird junk and clones of clones like the iOS App Store, but it still is quite the mess. Looking for oddball utilities like a CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) viewer is an overwhelming experience where most of the apps come from China or Russia, none of them are recently updated and, at best, come with one or two reviews. How is anybody expected to remain sane looking at this lot?
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