Can anyone tell me if the fee for the app is one-off or repeated?

Originally Posted by healer

Can anyone tell me if the fee for the app is one-off or repeated?

Once you buy Goodreader, it is free for you to use on your iPad, or any other iPad with the same AppleID

Originally Posted by dhewson777

Once you buy Goodreader, it is free for you to use on your iPad, or any other iPad with the same AppleID

Are we supposed to connect to Internet in order to be able to use any app? I ask because I intend to get Goodreader to run a locally stored product web site without Internet connection. Without Internet, without authentication, so I can't use the Goodreader. Can I?

I searched for 'offline html viewer' in the App Store. Two products turned up that look like they may fit your needs; Web Express and HTML Presenter.

They are both short on reviews, but might be worth your time to look at; or at least try contacting the developers.


The problem with saving a site via GoodReader or other apps that can do so is that they generally only save the HTML of the site itself and (sometimes) the local resources. Many sites pull in outside resources and use various scripts for interactive elements. None of these will show up when you view the file offline.

I am not depending on GoodReader or Safari in iOS6 to save a site. It is a site I create for some catalogue of products. I want to be able to transfer the whole web site to this iPad and show the products to our clients while travelling without using the Internet. I presume other tablets could do the job easily. However I have an iPad1 at this stage and I don't want to spend more for another one. That's why I asked for your hacking information. I presume your hacking information would help me copy the files over one way or another. I have not read much of your information yet. The web site does not need to pull web pages from other web site. This web site only uses JavaScript in addition to HTML. Of course doing so I won't be able to use the payment gateway for immediate purchase.

In fact at the beginning I was able to see the contents of the iPad from Windows Explorer and I managed to delete a file in the iPad from Windows Explorer. Now I can't see the iPad from Windows Computer and I am still investigating the cause. I guess it is because I have started the iTunes to connect to the iPad. I am going to test it with another computer that never connects to the iPad before.

Originally Posted by f4780y

In my defence, this is a description from the Apple web site - " Save articles to your Reading List and read them later — even without an Internet connection.". I guess I made a bad assumption that applied to the iPad reading list too...

Anyway, I am looking for some app that can read a locally stored catalogue of web pages(HTML & JavaScript). A catalogue that I created and I hope to be able to manually transfer to my iPad which is iPad1 so that it doesn't depend on Internet connection at all. I can't depend on Safari or GoodReader to save the catalogue from the Internet.

Originally Posted by twerppoet

I searched for 'offline html viewer' in the App Store. Two products turned up that look like they may fit your needs; Web Express and HTML Presenter

In your opinion, do you think I could implement my idea of having a local catalogue web site installed on the iPad using GoodReader or HTML Presenter or Web Express and the web site transferred by having the Absinthe installed?

Please let me know so that I can make a decision for buying the appropriate app.

You're asking the wrong person about jailbreaking (Absinthe). I've considered it on an occasion or two, but for what I do (and want to do) the benefits do not outweigh the inconveniences.

If I were needing to do what I think you are trying to do, I'd go a completely different route. Probably a database app like HanDBase or Bento. Bento, only if you have a Mac and are willing to buy the OS X version of the app.

Or, I'd give up the interactivity and use a PDF.

Or, (again if I have a Mac) I might try something using iBooks Author. I've played with it a bit, and while not perfect for the job, it should be possible to create a decent catalog.

The other day I ran across the Swipe2D site. It might be worth looking into as well. I can not tell wether their app will create a stand alone catalog that you don't have to publish to the app store, but you could ask them. There is a dearth of information on the main page, and no access to more without signing up or sending an email. Neither worth my time.

Hold in mind I'm not endorsing them. I don't know anything more than what's on the home page and app description; and a Google did not turn up any reviews to sate my curiosity.

Update, sort of.

I decided I wanted to re-read a book, but when I looked around I discovered all I had was an HTML version of it. So, copied then entire book folder to GoodReader to see what would happen. The book appears exactly as it would when being viewed on my computer browser (local files).

Hold in mind that the folder contains all the resources for the book.

Of course the book is only HTML (with frames), no CSS or Javascript; but if you have a sample catalog already you might try copying the folder to GoodReader, then opening the home page html file, just to see what happens.

Can't hurt to try.

Grrrr... Never mind.

While the first page displays in all it's glory, the links don't' work, quite. It quickly goes to the next chapter/page, but then reverts to page one again.