I'm running Nookie Froyo. I've noticed that any time I try to raise the DPI setting above 160 to make the UI easier on the eyes, it completely screws up all my book apps (Nook, Overdrive, Kobo, Amazon). I end up getting pages that are misaligned with the screen, or have text cut off. Is there maybe another setting that I've missed out on changing, that would prevent these alignment problems? I'd really like to be able to run my device at 180 DPI but it's annoying to have to keep switching back to 160 when I want to use it as an actual e-reader.
i changed mine all the way up to 200, and Aldiko still looks the same in all settings.
barrist said:
i changed mine all the way up to 200, and Aldiko still looks the same in all settings.
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Hmm, Aldiko is one I haven't tried. But at the moment I own one Kobo book and I've taken one ebook out of the library that requires Overdrive. So I need those apps to be usable.
Aldiko supports adobe drm so it can handle BN books, as well as library books. It should open Kobo as well.
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I created a book from a PDF using Calibre. The book works fine in that program, but I can't seem to figure out how to get Google Books on my XOOM to find it. For that matter, I can't even find the books that are already loaded when I browse the folders on my computer. I created a folder called Books and dropped it in there, but there isn't a way to browse the XOOM file folders from Google Books to find it.
How would I go about making this work?
Thanks!
Why not use Aldiko?
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Why not use Aldiko?
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Aldiko seems to have problems with the margins since it's unable to get rid of the notification bar. Fbreader works okay, but it doesn't work with font formatting.
use the nook app, it works perfect
You can fix the margin issue in Aldiko and it works great after that. I would still like to find where the Google Book app stores books just like so many other people here but until then Aldiko works just fine.
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You can fix the margin issue in Aldiko and it works great after that. I would still like to find where the Google Book app stores books just like so many other people here but until then Aldiko works just fine.
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It stores the books here Data/Data/com.google.android.apps.books/
But I dont know what format its in, or how to convert an ebook into that format.
Nook app works great, except for a few things.
It force closes randomly when switching screens, but never really closes. lol
It keeps forcing portrait mode for some screens, which is frustrating.
It's just not as pretty as the Google Books app!
But it did the trick, I suppose.
I can see the /data (I'm using Astro file manager to browse) folder but mine is empty eventhough I have pinned one of the books already and chose to make it available offline so I can find it. Is there anything else I need to do to see /data/data? What format are the books in?
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You can fix the margin issue in Aldiko and it works great after that.
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How? If I put the margins under 50, the top line gets cut off at the top. I'd rather put it edge to edge.
I use 70 for margin and 16 font size
Coolreader
I'd strongly recommend Coolreader (https://market.android.com/details?id=org.coolreader). it gives you lot more options to customize the reading experience
Can not load your own books with Google Books
Just an FYI. Google books does not offer the feature to add your own books. You have to use another e-reader app. I like Aldiko, because you and can add your Adobe digital editions to it.
I've been using Aldiko for a few years now and love it. I've never had a problem with it using my own Calibre and eCub books on several different devices.
However, I've been looking for another app that will sync my bookmark so that I can continue to read on another device from where I left off on my previous device. I have a CM7 Nook that I read in bed, but would like to read the same book during the day from my G2 and then carry on that night on the Nook again.
I've heard Aldiko is looking into this, while Kindle and Nook 'already' have this. My problem is that I've never been able to sideload using either app. I suspect this was a 'feature' in earlier versions but I haven't been able to do it using the latest versions.
I'd love to see Google Books allow sideloading and will standby for that (or Aldiko), whichever comes first and really does work!
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How? If I put the margins under 50, the top line gets cut off at the top. I'd rather put it edge to edge.
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The top line cuts off in Aldiko for me too. This was very disappointing, as I really enjoyed the app on my phones.
Moon+ Reader seems to show epubs properly and it has a good night mode, so that's my reader for now. Hopefully Aldiko optimizes for Honeycomb soon.
I use Aldiko and kindle on my phone. But on the Xoom I have been using kindle and Nook. I had no problem sideloading all of my epubs into Nook. Nook does a much nicer job than Aldiko on the Xoom, especially in landscape.
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I use 70 for margin and 16 font size
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This should be stickied somewhere. You just made my ereader app of choice usable again. TY!!
anyone know why I can't change the margins on a pdf I loaded? One of the samples that came with the app allows for adjusting the margins, but not the PDF I loaded. The only thing that appears in Settings is Brightness and Orientation. Please help, thanks!
That's just the nature of a PDF - it's static. Zooming is all you can do.
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I can see the /data (I'm using Astro file manager to browse) folder but mine is empty eventhough I have pinned one of the books already and chose to make it available offline so I can find it. Is there anything else I need to do to see /data/data? What format are the books in?
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If you're not rooted, you won't be able to see the contents of the data folder.
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I'm using Nook for this. All you need to do is drop the epub file in the My Documents folder under the Nook directory.
So I've read up and tried out a bunch of different comic viewers on the Nook Color, but was wondering what everyone else is using on XDA.
I'm also curious how you read your comics. Do you keep it zoomed in and scroll across and down to read the panels, or do you fit to the page and read the tiny text? Anyone have any solutions to make reading comics easier?
That's one thing I really enjoyed about my iPad....full screen comics with no small text. I would love to replicate that experience on my nook.
Thanks ahead of time, guys!
Perfect viewer, full page unless its a two page layout, then its zoomed by height
Do you have any issues reading the text when it's full page? Maybe I'm just getting old. hahah
i have used acv and perfect viewer. not sure which one i like more. i dont read comics that much.
I typically read em full screen with no issue, 7 inches seems huge after getting used to my 4 inch phone screen. If something is double screen I just rotate my nook and continue.
I use perfect viewer, It has quick page loads, smooth transitions (if you enable them) and around 11 hotspots on the screen that can be customized to make navigation quick and easy. I used to use ACV but when i rotated to landscape the app confined the image to a frame of 600 px wide. They may have fixed it now but it is too late.
The only thing that is not ideal is that the nook screen is widescreen, better for tv shows movies and other video, and comic pages are typically fatter than that so they require black bars at the top and bottom.
I've used ACV - it works very well for me.
For other apps, I'm not fond of the Ave!Comics viewer - but Comixology works pretty well and Graphic.ly isn't bad.
while i dont read comics, there's two apps i have installed that work great. Comics and Vintage Comics.
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Perfect viewer, full page unless its a two page layout, then its zoomed by height
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I 2nd perfect viewer app. I've had compatibility issues with acv and other comic readers reading cbr format, perfect viewer has worked best for me. the controls feel good and you can zoom in/out and fit page to screen etc.
Running Honeycomb off the SDcard and I had problems with ACV being slow and having Force-Closes.
I found Perfect viewer, and it's name is spot on! It is FAST and clear. I changed the default settings so two page layouts auto-split and I just toggle back and forth between the pages as needed. The zoned touch locations threw me off at first, but as with anything, once you learn the interface, it becomes second nature.
+1 for Perfect Viewer
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+1 for Perfect Viewer
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What he said!
I use manga watcher and am very satisfied. On a nook size screen I prefer landscape mode and just scroll down the page as I read the panels. Manga watcher does everything I need and has big free libraries that come with it. Of course you can side load comics off the SD also if you want to.
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Perfect Viewer +1
I've always used ACV, not too many problems anymore. It used to have the memory issues so I switched to Perfect Viewer, but I hate having to touch one point on the screen instead of flipping through like pages. (I dunno if this has changed.)
I would also recommend Manga Watcher, haven't tried comics on it, but for easily downloadable (free!) mangas, it's awesome.
I've installed Perfect Viewer on my rooted NC (cm7 on sd-card) but can't access the menu! What button should I hit to get to the menu?
Please help!)
and where do buy the comics from or where do you download them.>?
I love perfect viewer. Works well for me. I like the option to use the volume buttons to turn pages. The full screen view is perfectly fine for me. Text doesn't seem small to me.
I use ACV, but most of my cbr would crash and get error. jjcomics viewer seems to do better. The size is readable unless it is a two page, then I have to zoom in. I think jjcomics viewer you can set it to automatically cut it in half to only show one page each.
But the best thing to prevent the crashing and errors is just convert all of your files to cbz format. I use Jomic to batch convert on my mac. I don't know which program works best for PC but I know there are a lot of them
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and where do buy the comics from or where do you download them.>?
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i dont know where you would legally get comics in cbr/cbz format as I doubt any comics distribution would want to sell it in this format. CBR /CBZ are essentially just rar or zip files of pictures. They probably want some kind of protection on it or have some proprietary software to view them. But I know Marvel has an app on the iphone/ipad and chrome browser that you can use to buy comics and read them. Other than that, the usual suspects for cbr/cbz- torrents, rapidshare, megaupload, etc.
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I've installed Perfect Viewer on my rooted NC (cm7 on sd-card) but can't access the menu! What button should I hit to get to the menu?
Please help!)
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I don't have this app, but as with all apps on nook color - make sure softkey is running to be able to access the back and menu buttons. If you press the softkey circle (somewhere on your screen) the soft menu button should show up on the screen. This should bring up a menu if the app has one. If you are running CM7, you might not need to run softkey as it might be integrated already in there? If you dont have it, I think it's in the app store
I use perfect viewer also. But one problem I have is when I finish one comic and go to open another for some reason it just keeps returning to the one I just read. Anyone have any idea why it would do that?
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jj comic viewer works great for me, I zip all the pics together and it reads the zip
Heya guys,
So I just recently discovered the real beauty of E-books and the awesome capability of the Xoom in this activity. My question is what are the settings everyone's using to convert their PDF's into E-book format in Calibre? I'm pretty lost in a lot of the settings and all of my PDF's loose their colorful pictures and such when I convert them.. I'm also playing with Aldiko, Kindle, and Nook for viewing my books.. Whats everyone else's preference?
I just have mine set to generic e-ink and then I just convert any pdf to epub and it works great. I have not made any changes to any of the settings. If you have played around with your settings then just revert them back to default and try it again.
The problem I am having is that I have a few magazines that were scanned into PDFs. If I use QuickOffice to view the pdf the font is small, but very crisp and clear. The only issue I have with this option is that I can not save where I left off reading and the page turning is not as smooth. I do not care about the fancy page transitions, although Google Books does look nice. I would like just a simple button to advance pages. With QuickOffice you have to drag the page and it does not snap to the next page.
I tried using Calibre and then reading in Aldiko or using Adobe Reader and the fonts do not render nearly as crisp as using QuickOffice. Does anyone have some suggestions?
These magazines have plenty of color pictures so I do not want to loose those either.
Thanks!
Same boat here. A solution would be helpful!
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Same boat here. A solution would be helpful!
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For large PDF files (like magazines for example) I have found that converting them to epub format is a waste because it lags when you open it using any of the book readers. You can use Adobe/Quickoffice/Documents to Go but like you mentioned, the only downside is that you cannot create a bookmark so you always have to find your way back to where you left off. If you do convert the files how ever to epub and they are not too big then I found that the problem is that most scanned magazines just do not appear right since you may have 2 magazine pages scanned to one pdf page, images distort how the text looks or where it is located, etc. Another solution is use a comic viewer to read the magazines but this takes too long to create sometimes but it is much better than using a book reader since coming viewers handle large file sizes very well.
My problem is that the PDF's I convert to Ebooks lose all their formating. There is not seperation between lines anymore, the text is all one size, page breaks get deleted, so on and so forth.. They look terrible.. I wonder what type of PDFs everyone else is converting with so much success..
I'm running CM7.0.2 from SD and everything is running great. All my apps are working well, etc, the only app that really sucks for me, ironically is the nook app.
The library is just ungodly slow (I have about 200 nook books). It's constantly syncing and pausing and just generally acting confused. When I open a book the reader functions great but the library is so bad it's almost unusable, I'm pretty sure it's the retarded thumbnail view/scrolling. Anyone have any tweaks/advice?
I archived a bunch of books to bring the number of titles down to 100 or so but it's still just stupid slow and klunky interface-wise.
Same here - exactly the same setup ( stock 1.2 and dual-boot with CM7.0.2, 925Hz kernel on uSD ) and NOOK reader is useless with 100+ books....
Aldiko would be a worthy contender if v2 didn't completely bork the layout (missing bold/italics/centering, etc.).
Rodney
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Aldiko would be a worthy contender if v2 didn't completely bork the layout (missing bold/italics/centering, etc.).
Rodney
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Yeah, I'm currently splitting time between Aldiko and the nook app, but almost all my ebooks are from B&N so I'd just as soon not bother with firing up one app to download them (nook) and then a second app to import them all the time and as you noted, Aldiko screws up some of the nook books in terms of format.
At least it's not just me. the native 1.2 ROM works well with the library, but 95% of the time I'm in CM7 for the apps and such, so rebooting to read is even clunkier. I mostly just reboot 1.2 for kids books when my kids want to read on the nook.
Hopefully B&N will continue to improve performance on the app. Since it seems tied to it constantly hitting the Wifi and/or thumbnail scrolling, I'm not even sure if using an OC kernel will help. I'm on the standard CM7 kernel with the max clock speed right now. but haven't OC'd due to battery life and laziness on my part.
Ungodly slooooooooooow... opening a book takes something on the order of two minutes. Works great thereafter, but really, it's unacceptably slow.
I agree that the latest version of the nook app is unbearably slow. I actually deleted it and installed an older version of the app (ver 2.5) and it seems faster. You do lose the ability to read newspapers and magazine, but I think it is at least usable for books...
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I agree that the latest version of the nook app is unbearably slow. I actually deleted it and installed an older version of the app (ver 2.5) and it seems faster. You do lose the ability to read newspapers and magazine, but I think it is at least usable for books...
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Yeah, but I need my Economist subscription. Actually, the irony is that my magazines open Waaaay quicker than books.
Wonderful, an enforced library size limit
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Wonderful, an enforced library size limit
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Yeah, pretty ironic, since I assume they want us to buy as much stuff as possible.
have they fixed the sync issue that's been around since it's release?
Got the Nook HD+ rooted and installed the Play Store
After that I installed a file explorer and Netflix.
It was on playing Netflix that I noticed a big problem, the videos are distorted and pixelated massively. Having done some small web design projects I know that one issue with the retina displays on the newer Ipads etc is the DPI is increased and so normal pictures and videos tend to look washed out a bit. Is that an issue with the HD+?
If not that, could it also be that Netflix itself is thinking I am reaching them from a smaller screen device and streaming the smaller file/screen size which the Nook is expanding to fill the screen making it get pixelated (as happens when you zoom into a video)?
Regardless, I looked in other threads for this issue as I do not believe I am the only person to ever experience this - did not find anything. One last test, I logged into my own home file server and tried to play a movie in one of the folders. Sure enough, it looks fine on the TV and computer monitor but looks a little grainy by comparison - so I have to believe part of this is a DPI issue? Is there a suggestion to resolve this?
Would installing the "real" Netflix from the HD+ market solve this for at least Netflix? (I am going to assume that logging into the B&N site and installing an app that way does not endanger my root or access to GApps/Playstore?) Is there an easy way to get to the B&N app market from the modified dashboard (not CM10) or should I stay away from that if it makes the HD+ more apt to update/modify my current settings?
That is a lot of questions to solve a single problem so is there an existing solution I am overlooking? Or is this just the price of having the greater resolution screen?
That distortion and pixelating happens on all my devices with Netflix. It goes away after a minute or so. It is like the buffer has to fill up before it gets clear.
And I don't think it matters where you get the app, I think they are the same. And getting something from the B&N store has no effect on root or Play Store or vice versa. You are no more likely to get updated. You are already automatically logged in. That happened when you registered your device.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running rooted stock