• Code: Bloated react mess that's bigger than the entire internal storage of early e-reader hardware

• Design: You get a full UI that's no more minimal than the Kindle desktop builds

• Features: Again, fully featured, better than some e-reader hardware

Compared to what is it minimalistic by what metric?

It's about the GUI, not about the code.

>You get a full UI that's no more minimal than the Kindle desktop builds

Those are already minimal. This is too.

> Those are already minimal. This is too.

If everything is minimalistic, nothing is.

Actually, no, if everything is minimalistic, everything is. It's not a relative term, it's more of a specific quality and philosophy.

Same way if every new paiting for some reason starts being pointilistic, they don't cease to be pointilistic just because its the absolute norm.

(And even if it was a relative term, we do have experiece with non minimalistic software from the past, so we can still considered a current crop of software were everything is much more sparse and streamlined as "minimalistic" compared to that).

In any case, we're not talking about everything, just these two and any other that fits the description.

I think that by minimalistic they mean an uncluttered, uncomplicated interface.

Which ebook reader does something horrible here? When not adjusting settings or loading books, most of them just display a book-like page. I haven't encountered one yet with Office-like toolbars or whatever Acrobat thinks it's doing.

"No skeuomorphic book shelf" seems like a low bar.

A.K.A. all the buttons are hidden so half the functions are impossible to discover.