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Anybody know of an ebook reader for Windows Mobile 6.1 that you can scroll with a touch interface, like how Opera pages down on a web page?
Altough MobiPocket Reader hasn't finger scrolling feature,but it has feature of auto-scrolling,so you don't need to do anything while reading.
All reader
The soft Allreader+ do it and even in full screen mode
Ok - thanks for the suggestions - I've tried the Allsoft+ reader, and mobipocket.
Both have some nice features, but neither one lets you flick your finger to slide pages up and down like Opera works, or like the iPhone works with various pages. Allsoft+ has some great features, but not ones I'd be willing to pay that much money for when Haali Reader provides them for free.
I've been a long time Haali Reader user -- but unfortunately the AT&T Fuze doesn't have a scroll wheel, and the DPAD is kind of awkward to use for hours of reading. I may go with Mobipocket (free), and see if I can get used to tapping the screen to advance the page, unless somebody knows of another one.
Which Mobipocket reader version do you use? They haven't released one for WM6.1.
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Which Mobipocket reader version do you use? They haven't released one for WM6.1.
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I am using v5.3 build582 on my Smartphones and that's working also on TP. For PPC I think is the same version(I have deleted my installcab accidentialy). It was working perfectly(till hardreset from different purposes).
I use mobipocket, and it's got a lot of bugs on the Fuze, mainly with pagination (it had problems with my previous device, but it's much worse with the fuze). I use GScroll, and it works nicely to scroll pages. If you just scratch downward on the bottom pad, you go forward a page. If you scratch upward, you either go back 1 page, or like 50, which is annoying as crap. Bookmarking your last page read is very important. Whenever your turn off the device, or close and re-open the application, for whatever reason, mobipocket has trouble figuring out what the previous page is. It's very easy to accidentally scratch the bottom pad upward, and then you'll shoot backwards anywhere from 10-50 pages. If you look at the progress bar, it'll say you just went back a page, but that's not so. Mobipocket has a lot of problem with pagination anyway, but this is really annoying.
I haven't tried ereader yet, but it does a much better job of pagination, in my opinion (it's nice to know how many pages you've read, and how many are left-you're pretty much in the dark with mobi). The bummer with ereader is that it doesn't have a full screen mode (unless it's been updated). With the small screen of the fuze, full-screen is important. It also looks a helluva lot better.
Edit: I should add, you can also use the d-pad to go forward and backward, but it's not as cool as using GScroll, and it doesn't alleviate the annoying pagination problems.
Yes,you're right. The last page made me angry all the time. Anyway on Smartphone it is everything correct and I have no alternative against. Maybe the SP version on PPC would work better,just try.
would very much like a decent ebook reader
mobipocket is impossible on touch HD
it is a bit odd that the ebook software market seems so undeveloped
maybe just not many people read books!?!
cheers
Does Gscroll work on the HD? I'd at least demo it (mobilesrc.com)-it's only live 5 min, but you'll see if you can scroll forward with it.
You can touch the page in Mobipocket to change pages...it's in the options.
yea a good ebook reader with finger swipe scrolling and zoom would be great.
uBook and Mobipocket both support touch scrolling, but not swiping. You just touch the screen and it changes the page. Both are excellent readers, but uBook requires a lot of messing around with it's options.
allreader +
allreader+ with gscroll is the best team
there is even a zoom
and more, you can switch from black text on white paper to white text on black paper and it's a bless when I read at night
alonroz said:
uBook and Mobipocket both support touch scrolling, but not swiping. You just touch the screen and it changes the page. Both are excellent readers, but uBook requires a lot of messing around with it's options.
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The only problem with tapping the screen to turn pages is that (at least with mobi) you usually have to tap a part of the screen where there are no words, otherwise you bring up the pop-up menu or you accidentally highlight text. If you hit a page with no paragraph breaks, it gets a little tricky and is annoying. Gscroll is totally the way to go.
any news of a new touch ebook reader (like this here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N-QsuGD4a4 ) Mobipocket isn't so good on an Windows Mobile phone without d-pad....
New touch program for reading ebooks
Hi,
I have just released a program that does what you want. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4894085.
Let me know how you get on.
Cheers,
Jim
Check out iSilo. you can scroll up and down sliding the finger over the screen. Not sure if that is what you want...
I have read many books this year on Allreader+ and I love it. The night theme is great, the autoscroll is also great, and tap to change pages is much nicer than having to flick across the screen. Honestly the less effort to change pages, the better. You have to change pages a lot when reading on a small screen.
The only thing that Allreader+ lacks that I really wish it had is quick inline text editing for all those pesky errors from OCR. I could correct it and then next time I read the book it would be right.
Yeah Allreader+ was my favourite ebook reader until i found someone developed a speed reading app in the XDA Dev and hacking section.
The app is called wordstreamer and its all i use now to read on my pro!
can anyone post the rss hub cab that comes on the stock raph.? it is another casualty of att branding. thanks!
i have a cab but not from the fuze...
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i have a cab but not from the fuze...
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could you post it please? that would be much appreciated!
RSS-HUB-Autosave to Storage Card
Here you go, it autosaves to your storage card, i tried to find my there cab which auto saves to ur phone...but i must have deleted it.
thanks so much!
lol np my friend
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Here you go, it autosaves to your storage card, i tried to find my there cab which auto saves to ur phone...but i must have deleted it.
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Thanks oodles! I was trying to get Opera mini to handle RSS but:
a) it didn't allow me to group them so I could separate them by content (text vs audio) and frequency (I keep a list of ~40 RSS feeds and have annotated them by their update frequency)
b) I couldn't edit the names
c) it didn't work on the BBC Newspod feed
RSS Hub solves all of those and the interface is elegant. Thanks again!
RSS hub help with scrolling
Hello, I was wondering if anyone using RSS hub has found it annoying to scroll while in an open feed.
Usually, I open a feed to an article I wish to read. The short blurb doesn't cut it so I wish to scroll done to, "Read More Online...". But when I attempt to scroll to the bottom, it doesn't scroll, rather it highlights the words.
Is there a way to smart scroll within the feed that is still open by RSS hub?
Thanks for reading guys.
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone using RSS hub has found it annoying to scroll while in an open feed.
Usually, I open a feed to an article I wish to read. The short blurb doesn't cut it so I wish to scroll done to, "Read More Online...". But when I attempt to scroll to the bottom, it doesn't scroll, rather it highlights the words.
Is there a way to smart scroll within the feed that is still open by RSS hub?
Thanks for reading guys.
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well, are you only lightly pressing, cause that is the exact thing that happens. you really have to push it down for the flick scrolling to kick in. otherwise you will highlight...
or try yomomedia which is actually a lot nicer
nope not light touch
@ Vader165
Nope, not light touch, regardless if I press hard or not, when the feed is open with RSS Hub, it just highlights. Any solutions?
@ Kwill
Yomomedia is actually quite nice interface. As much as it is aesthetically pleasing, it takes a while to load. However, I think I will have to use this, if I am not able to smart scroll in RSS Hub.
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@ Vader165
Nope, not light touch, regardless if I press hard or not, when the feed is open with RSS Hub, it just highlights. Any solutions?
@ Kwill
Yomomedia is actually quite nice interface. As much as it is aesthetically pleasing, it takes a while to load. However, I think I will have to use this, if I am not able to smart scroll in RSS Hub.
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I’m guessing your running a WM 6.5 ROM? If so this is normal behavior and cannot be fixed. The kinetic scrolling of 6.5 breaks the touchflo in certain apps and the RSS Hub happens to be one of them. I always just have to use the side scroll bars to scroll through an article. I enlarge the width of my vertical scroll bars using Advanced config and it makes it a lot easier.
Great tip
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I’m guessing your running a WM 6.5 ROM? If so this is normal behavior and cannot be fixed. The kinetic scrolling of 6.5 breaks the touchflo in certain apps and the RSS Hub happens to be one of them. I always just have to use the side scroll bars to scroll through an article. I enlarge the width of my vertical scroll bars using Advanced config and it makes it a lot easier.
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Great tip. I went on and employed this and it makes using the RSS Hub under 6.5 a lot better.
One more question, if you don't mind Climber, is there a way to move the scroll bar to the left, for lefties like me?
Thanks for the tip again!
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Great tip. I went on and employed this and it makes using the RSS Hub under 6.5 a lot better.
One more question, if you don't mind Climber, is there a way to move the scroll bar to the left, for lefties like me?
Thanks for the tip again!
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Sorry but as far as I know this is not possible. You would think that Microsoft would have added this option considering that not everyone is right handed.
you could use the new version of Rss hub, newsbreak. i have it and i love it because it actually does podcasts. and well.
SPB Online
I just downloaded SPB Online, which contains an RSS reader and the "touchflo" scrolling works in article view. As a matter of fact, this is the best RSS reader I have ever used. It's not free, but if you access your RSS reader as often as I do it's well worth the money.
Hi, folks
As you may already know, the Adobe Reader can't wordwrap a file, so you must scroll from left to right and it's tiring. So I tried apps like:
-Mobipocket: Can't swipe and sometimes doesn't recognize paragraphs.
-uBook: Font size is too small (even in extra large) and sometimes doesn't recognize paragraphs.
So, do you have some recommendation of pdf app. that preferably support finger scroll/swipe, wordwrap, and most importantly shows paragraphs correctly?
Thanks.
I thought it could if you used the Reflow view setting...
~codeslicer
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I thought it could if you used the Reflow view setting...
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there's no such option, man.
I was using ACV but I heard it was a big battery drain (And was making my NC feel a little warm) does anyone have a better suggestion?
I use the "Perfect Viewer" app. Just takes some practice memorizing the touch screen commands and it becomes very easy to use.
I second the recommendation for PV. And i tried a few others before settling.
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Yup, PV is great. I tried ACV and it made my screen go dark and unresponsive. Didnt like it at all. Dose any one know if PV can rotate if I flip the screen/device?
Yes, PV can rotate automatically, but you have t change it in the preference menu.
After a couple if weeks i've really gotten the hang of the various touch options. it just might be my favorite thing to do with this
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I used to use ACV, but am now using Perfect Viewer. It seems much snappier to me.
Hands down comic reader mobi. I literally bought the nook for this app.
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Yes, PV can rotate automatically, but you have t change it in the preference menu.
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Sorry if this is a silly question but were is PV's menu?
I've tried them all but JJ Comics Viewer worked best for me. I liked how it told me the page number at the bottom.
I didn't really like the onscreen touch stuff on Perfect Viewer and it didn't automatically go to the next .cbr file. Mobi didn't have pinch to zoom and was too expensive. JJ is quite fast and doesn't have as many problems with large files. Try it out.
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Ill try jj tonight. The PV menu is invoked when viewing a photo. Use hit the menu key, with softkeys/button savior, and it will appear at the bottom as a whole set of options. Click the toolbox icon.
Includes option to jump to next cbr automatically.
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Ok gotta give it up for jj comic. Does 2 things pv doesn't- zoom past full resolution and can crop white space
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I've settled on the stock pdf reader for the NC. I have just taken all my cbz files, etc. and used Jomic to convert them all to pdf. None of the other other programs felt as comfortable, at least for me.
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Ill try jj tonight. The PV menu is invoked when viewing a photo. Use hit the menu key, with softkeys/button savior, and it will appear at the bottom as a whole set of options. Click the toolbox icon.
Includes option to jump to next cbr automatically.
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Yup, that did the trick, thanks. I also set it for Bicubic. So far I've only loaded one comic onto this thing but I can tell that when I have my whole library on here its gonna be sweet.
Can you explane what you mean by "zoom past full resolution"? Is that a good thing
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I've settled on the stock pdf reader for the NC. I have just taken all my cbz files, etc. and used Jomic to convert them all to pdf. None of the other other programs felt as comfortable, at least for me.
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Here's a question - how can I set the NC to open a PDF with the B&N Reader? If I open the file from the Library app, it opens with QuickPDF If I open the file using Astro I can read it using the B&N reader. I hate that I can't manage which file types open in each application as on a normal Android device. Any tips?
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Can you explane what you mean by "zoom past full resolution"? Is that a good thing
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PV will zoom out (less than 100%) and use scaling algorithms like bicubic and averaging to make the image look smooth. But (to my knowledge) it will not zoom past 100%. The problem is that, when I use lanscape mode to view a row of comic panes, if the width of the image is less than 1024 pixels, it will not fit the width of the screen.
JJ will zoom in (greater than 100%) so it will fill the screen regardless of the resolution of the original.
I hope that helps.
mad5427 said:
I've settled on the stock pdf reader for the NC. I have just taken all my cbz files, etc. and used Jomic to convert them all to pdf. None of the other other programs felt as comfortable, at least for me.
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I'm not questioning your choice, I'm just curious as to what was worse about "perfect viewer" or "jjcomic" that was better when using a pdf viewer. Because personally I find viewing comics on such a small screen requires maximum speed and flexibility in terms of zooming, rotating and page turning, and I've found the pdf viewers I've tried to be slow and inflexible.
If anyone watched me while reading a comic on this thing, they'd think I was a crazy person (rotate, pinch, tap, rotate back, doubletap).
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PV will zoom out (less than 100%) and use scaling algorithms like bicubic and averaging to make the image look smooth. But (to my knowledge) it will not zoom past 100%. The problem is that, when I use lanscape mode to view a row of comic panes, if the width of the image is less than 1024 pixels, it will not fit the width of the screen.
JJ will zoom in (greater than 100%) so it will fill the screen regardless of the resolution of the original.
I hope that helps.
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Actually, as techy as that was, I got it. Made perfect sense. Thanks. I'll have to give it a try. I'm also intrigued by Mobi's supposed ability to pop out blocks of text but at this time I cant afford to try it. All my free money went to the Nook
Hi, I'm trying to read a PDF downloaded from Google books.
I can open it with the nook reader but it doesn't open in full screen so there's a grey background and the text is too small to comfortably read, changing the text size doesn't seem to make any difference.
I downloaded Google Books app and it looks exactly the same, and it doesn't give me access to the settings to try and zoom in or increase text size.
I've also tried Aldiko, the settings are accessible (hurray!) but don't display properly, so I can only see 'Brightness' and 'Orientation'.
Is there any hope, is there a way to read the book!
Many thanks,
Mat.
there are various pdf readers that work on the nook, my favorite is ebookdroid which have auto crop to remove margins, and auto levels correction which makes the text sharper
That book is probably a PDF made of jpegs. It is the worst kind to read on an eink device. You can use something like pdfscissors to crop the margins of the file before loading it to the ereader or use an application that can do it on the go, on the device - like Orion Viewer or Perfect Viewer. Or you can try to use OCR software on that file to convert it do a text format.
Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately when I tried to open the book I got an 'unexpected error: cannot load document'.
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Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately when I tried to open the book I got an 'unexpected error: cannot load document'.
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You need to specify the program you used to do that for us to be able to help.
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You need to specify the program you used to do that for us to be able to help.
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Sorry should have made it clear I was replying to the post about Ebookdroid.
No more suggestions?
Still haven't found a reader that'll let me read the pdf easily .
Matt.
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No more suggestions?
Still haven't found a reader that'll let me read the pdf easily .
Matt.
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Sorry, didn't realize you were looking for a new and better reader! I'd highly recommend @Renate NST's Temblast Reader for excellent PDF and EPUB reading. Check it out.
ИΘΘK¡€ said:
Sorry, didn't realize you were looking for a new and better reader! I'd highly recommend @Renate NST's Temblast Reader for excellent PDF and EPUB reading. Check it out.
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Thanks for replying.
I had a look for Renate's reader before but couldn't see it when I clicked the signature; there are nook apps including a library app but no reader.
Am I missing something obvious and/or just being stupid????
Mat
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Thanks for replying.
I had a look for Renate's reader before but couldn't see it when I clicked the signature; there are nook apps including a library app but no reader.
Am I missing something obvious and/or just being stupid????
Mat
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=58684257&postcount=118
MatRpanir said:
Thanks for replying.
I had a look for Renate's reader before but couldn't see it when I clicked the signature; there are nook apps including a library app but no reader.
Am I missing something obvious and/or just being stupid????
Mat
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I actually linked it in the first post I made in this thread (click on "Temblast Reader", but thanks to @kazikas for making the link a little more noticeable.
Thank you so much Kazikas , ИΘΘK¡€ and of course Renate!
It's the only reader that lets me magnify the page (overscan), the text isn't great but it's starting to look like that's the original PDF's problem.