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Best ebook reader for the Touch Pro?

I've been using Mobipocket on my Fuze but used to use iSilo on my old Kaiser. I've heard some good things about the others too. What ebook reader do you guys use? What do you recommend?

isilo, foxit pdf and chm reader basically... im a medical student... i read a lot!!

Are there any with finger scrolling?

I haven't found one that is "finger" friendly but another ebook reader that is available is Microsoft Reader. It uses a format known as LIT but most of the books I see that are good quality are based on Sony's format which are the LRF files. Unfortunately, I haven't found one that reads the LRF format and the converters that I found do not support a conversion of it either..

i use mobipoket and foxit reader (although documents to go with PDFtoGO is a good alternative). Haven.t used isilo yet but heard good things about it

I like Adobe Reader LE 2.5. It is surprisingly fast (considering Acrobat's notorious slowness on the desktop) and the reflow option is extremely useful (if only there was a way to save the zoom and the reflow option...).
The only other PDF reader I tried is Foxit, but I just don't like it. It's significantly slow (again, surprising considering Foxit's speed on the desktop) and the massive advertisement on the top is rather annoying.

jtantley said:
Are there any with finger scrolling?
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i can scroll thw three of them similar to opera mobile... i just drag.

I love eReader from the fictionwise folks. I have been using it for years. Check it out at http://www.ereader.com. The reader is free and the books are reasonably priced. You can configure the reader to look the way you want it to look. I like black text on white background but they have a bunch of themes and you can make your own theme. The books are all properly formatted to look good in on your phone.

I'm surprised that ereaders aren't being kept up -- most of them see like they haven't really changed in years, back when I had an Axim. Why aren't developers working on ereaders? not enoguh demand?

jtantley said:
I'm surprised that ereaders aren't being kept up -- most of them see like they haven't really changed in years, back when I had an Axim. Why aren't developers working on ereaders? not enoguh demand?
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That's a good question. I noticed the same thing. It's interesting that the sw for the mobiles is declining, but the hardware solutions are expanding...i.e. kindle, etc.

Mobipocket is still my favorite. I was hoping great things would happen once Amazon bought Mobipocket, but it seems like the Kindle has dashed any hope of that. Looking through the forums at Mobipocket.com it looks as though any future development may be over. At this point I think it would be hard to change readers since I've collected a huge library in Mobipocket. Maybe if Barnes & Noble get around to porting their reader to WM I'll give it a try.

Repligo reader is what I've used on all my phones/pdas/pnas for years. You can download all versions here:
It's free, and the technique the program uses to fit your text/pages to your devices' screen is brilliant. I also use repligo pdf server which batch converts unlimited pdf files to the repligo format.
infochia

the best ereader
Alreader is the best, it reads all formats of the ebooks, its very nice and totally personilized. You can look for it here, in xdadevelopers, or in google. Its free

Polonortenho said:
Alreader is the best, it reads all formats of the ebooks, its very nice and totally personilized. You can look for it here, in xdadevelopers, or in google. Its free
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here it ishttp://reeed.ru/en_prog_alreader_pda.php

Gator5000e said:
I love eReader from the fictionwise folks. I have been using it for years. Check it out at http://www.ereader.com. The reader is free and the books are reasonably priced. You can configure the reader to look the way you want it to look. I like black text on white background but they have a bunch of themes and you can make your own theme. The books are all properly formatted to look good in on your phone.
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Yeah, ereader is pretty nice. I've used it and mobipocket, and got away from ereader for a couple of years. I just went back to it, and think I like it better than mobi. The themes are nice, and I like the fact that it has real pagination. Mobipocket is a pain in the butt, because if you skip back a page when you first open it up (or even after just minimizing it), it will hop back like 10 pages. It's really easy to lose your place. You don't get full page with ereader, but I find that isn't a problem for me. I also like the flash reading mode-it's pretty nice if you want to re-read a section that you forgot, or if you're currently reading a section that you want to forget.

Mozilla for Android: Fennec is coming!

http://gigaom.com/2009/10/19/on-mobile-phones-firefoxs-big-bet-is-nokia-android/
...Mozilla will release Firefox for Windows Mobile and then Android, he said.
Why? Because he thinks there is a lot of overlap among folks who use Firefox and those who might buy Android-based devices...
“Until recently, Android was Java, but they released Android NDK which uses C/C++ and that is what we program in, so we are now looking at developing Firefox for Android,” said Jay Sullivan, vice president of Mobile for Mozilla.
“Mozilla Firefox will be the first mobile browser to support add-ons,” boasted Sullivan, pointing to the fact that nearly 2 billion Firefox add-ons have been downloaded to date, and they’ve spawned successful companies such as StumbleUpon. He expects similar traction for Firefox on the mobile. “We have been spending a lot of time on making sure that JavaScript and our engine work really fast on ARM processors,” Sullivan said. “That has taken some time.”
The reason: Mozilla wants developers to embrace the more open HTML5 standards instead of developing separately for different mobile platforms. “For a company of 20 people, it is hard to support multiple platforms,” Lilly said. “Even if one platform takes 20 percent of the market, there are other platforms you still need to develop for, and that isn’t easy for a small company. So that is why we are with Google in supporting HTML5 technologies.”
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Watch out, WebKit! Gecko's coming to storm the scene.
I can't wait!

That would be nice. This webkit-based thing feels too much like apple has had its slimy hands in it.

cannot wait, this is gonna be superb!

As horrid as the test version was on WinMo, I'm not holding out any serious hopes.

whats that like firefox mobile

kilaclwnjuggalo said:
whats that like firefox mobile
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yes.........

It cant be much worse than the old WinMo version was.
And with webkit generally being quicker than Gecko, and with firefox's main bow of extensions not really having a place on a mobile (with current memory constraints at least), I'm not really that excited.
Here's hoping though!
Opera Mobile on the other hand......

kevo said:
It cant be much worse than the old WinMo version was.
And with webkit generally being quicker than Gecko, and with firefox's main bow of extensions not really having a place on a mobile (with current memory constraints at least), I'm not really that excited.
Here's hoping though!
Opera Mobile on the other hand......
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Opera can just die.
Does it actually work on ANY website? Or is it *absolutely* worthless?

lbcoder said:
Opera can just die.
Does it actually work on ANY website? Or is it *absolutely* worthless?
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lol. It works on all the websites I've come across while using it.

lotherius said:
As horrid as the test version was on WinMo, I'm not holding out any serious hopes.
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that was also winblows mobile.....anything winmobile touches turns to crap. just my opinion. I cant wait to see how this turns out though, should be a great addition to the android market

hey i love firefox, so i am hoping to get a great version of fennec for android

I"m curious about how the add ons would work on a mobile

Chedderknight said:
I"m curious about how the add ons would work on a mobile
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as am I. considering that the non-selling points of addons in the past was memory constraints, and now with the advent of being able to install the app directly to the sd instead of the phones internal storage through android, this could work out very well.
we'll have to just wait and see

lotherius said:
As horrid as the test version was on WinMo, I'm not holding out any serious hopes.
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I think the key part of your statement was "wimo"... which basically excludes the possibility of anything actually being *good*.

Opera Only Looks Good!
I keep hearing that the Opera browser works on most sites. Well, it doesn't work very well on many sites. I have even Opera 10 with turbo and it is limited. Now the Skyfire browser isn't so pretty but it works on most sites. I hope some of these browsers for mobile get it together.

Opera is a *terrible* browser -- on ANY platform.
From time to time I look at it, but it is cumbersome, and tends to just *not work*.
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I keep hearing that the Opera browser works on most sites. Well, it doesn't work very well on many sites. I have even Opera 10 with turbo and it is limited. Now the Skyfire browser isn't so pretty but it works on most sites. I hope some of these browsers for mobile get it together.
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Little update:
http://blog.vlad1.com/2010/02/02/android-progress-more-pixels-edition/
Edit: more...
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Android

Blahaha! Mike you got banned lmfaoo!

lbcoder said:
Opera is a *terrible* browser -- on ANY platform.
From time to time I look at it, but it is cumbersome, and tends to just *not work*.
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what a load of bollocks, its faster than stock browseron wifi when its on gprs and every site i use works perfectly and display great, sips ram aswell

Honestly I downloaded the official nightly pre-alpha build of Fennec and I'm quite disappointed. For starters the APK is 11mb and installed using CM6 Froyo APP2SD it showed installed it took up 18mb. This is the largest app for Android I've seen yet.
On top of the bloat it won't run at all on my G1. I just get a black screen. Considering Fennec is written for Android 2.1+ and uses the NDK it's probably built like Flash using Snapdragon specific optimizations that are incompatible with previous generation Androids. I'll probably keep an eye on it, but I doubt it will ever work on anything older then the Nexus One.

Office App

Is there a free office app that anyone has gotten to work on the g tablet yet that will allow you to open and edit MS office docs?

Documents to Go. I used 2.0 from the apk but 3.0 installed fine after I got market working.

That's not free to edit docs, though.
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Docs
A decent set of applications for editing documents is what we really need. It is probably the most important thing to me. Until there is a application that rivals iwork on the ipad it will always have a one up with people that need the productivity applications.
Google docs is working OK, and it is free, but still not great.

doesn't quickoffice work on the gtab? I believe it was in the tntlite/gapps apk. might want to give that one a try. I was hoping it did, but have not downloaded or installed it yet.

IIRC it's still only a viewer. You can buy QuickOffice or a comparable app for $10-$15 on the Market. But they are designed for phones and do not take advantage of screen real estate (e.g. no toolbars, etc.).

Not sure if it works on the G Tablet since I did not get mine yet to mess around with it yet but I know Google Docs is just a free website and you can edit all types of office program documents. May just have to maybe use the browser and go to docs.google.com

Take a look at 'goodintentions' site. He has a link to Quick Office HD which is MS Office compatible.
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/download.htm

Quickoffice HD is very good if you are running one of the Honeycomb varients. Otherwise the standard Quickoffice Pro is pretty good as well. No, they are not free, but you get what you pay for...
BTW - you have to purchase "Pages, "Numbers," and "Keynote" seperately on the iPad to the tune of $10 each. With that in mind Quickoffice is a bargain.

Honestly, I've found that the free Olive Office Premium works better for some uses than even some of the non-free office apps. I've used it on my G Tab with Thumb Keyboard, and it's pretty decent. Like I said, sometimes I use it even over the office suites I purchased, namely Quick Office and Documents to Go.
It's simply stupid that there is no port of Open Office to Android. There's no reason for it as far as I can tell.

Thanks for the tip, scyld. I still prefer QuickOffice, but this looks as good as it gets for free.
By the way- it seems to work fine using the Adam keyboard found elswhere on this board.

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Quickoffice HD is very good if you are running one of the Honeycomb varients. Otherwise the standard Quickoffice Pro is pretty good as well. No, they are not free, but you get what you pay for...
BTW - you have to purchase "Pages, "Numbers," and "Keynote" seperately on the iPad to the tune of $10 each. With that in mind Quickoffice is a bargain.
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Actually, the quickoffice HD available on my site works wonderfully on the gtab froyo and ginger roms. I just used it to type out a very long letter to religious leaders.

Is it legal to distribute that (Quickoffice HD)? I just shelled out $20 for my copy (worth every penny).

The one I'm hosting is pulled from the NI adam tablet. It's a tablet oriented qoffice.

I'm trying out that QuickOffice HD from the site on the Flashback HC ROM and it force quits whenever I try to either open a file or browse for one.

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I'm trying out that QuickOffice HD from the site on the Flashback HC ROM and it force quits whenever I try to either open a file or browse for one.
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There are two varients of QuickOffice HD. The version NI Adam version is ok for all ROMs (I think), but the purchase version is dubbed HD Pro and is only usable on HoneyComb and is slightly different than the standard HD version. I'll try and post screenshots later.

Adobe Reader on Xoom?

I haven't tried this yet, but I was curious if anyone has tried loading Adobe Reader onto the Xoom? I'm guessing we have to side load it since Market won't install it, but I'm curious if it even works.

I have it installed and haven't had any problems with it.

Hoping Adobe released a Reader w/ bookmark support. We can't use these for our Board of Directors without that functionality.

It works but seems to hang on me at times with multi-page PDF's (text and photos).

So obviously you guys had to do this via a sideload of the apk, since Market won't allow an install of the app to the Xoom?

Mine Market-installed when I activated my Xoom (I had it installed on my Droid). Had no issues with it, use it for textbooks.

It works. I bootlegged it from my mytouch 4g running CM7 and sideloaded it onto my Xoom.

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Mine Market-installed when I activated my Xoom (I had it installed on my Droid). Had no issues with it, use it for textbooks.
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Same here.

I market installed on launch day, rooted a few days later and it was unavailable. Quickoffice seems to run better for now anyway.
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I side loaded it too, from my gTablet.
Being that it's a free app, I've uploaded it here. I hope that's not breaking any rules.

Meh. I just installed Adobe and I have to say I like EzPDF reader a lot better. It costs a Buck, but it's smoother, faster and has better navigation, IMHO.
Might revisit Adobe reader if they optimize it for tablets.
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arrtoodeetoo said:
Meh. I just installed Adobe and I have to say I like EzPDF reader a lot better. It costs a Buck, but it's smoother, faster and has better navigation, IMHO.
Might revisit Adobe reader if they optimize it for tablets.
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I agree. I was having a hard time reading PDF magazine text in other readers. I switched to EzPDF and it renders text perfectly.

nbowes said:
I side loaded it too, from my gTablet.
Being that it's a free app, I've uploaded it here. I hope that's not breaking any rules.
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How do you install this file onto the Xoom. I did download, now what?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Just open it through file manager, it should install.
Has anyone tried quickoffice?

I'm using the PDF reader that came bundled with Documents2Go, no problems.
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I use RepliGo and I really like it.
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I started using Quickoffice and it's abit faster over ezpdf but ezpdf's layout is nicer.

I tried Adobe Reader, Aldiko ebook reader and the built-in Quick Office and by far Quick Office does the best job of rendering small text to read scanned magazines of these three. My biggest gripe with Quick Office is I wish there was a simple button to advance a page instead of swiping. If the page would snap that would be better.
I have not tried any of the pay options.

HuckFinn said:
I tried Adobe Reader, Aldiko ebook reader and the built-in Quick Office and by far Quick Office does the best job of rendering small text to read scanned magazines of these three. My biggest gripe with Quick Office is I wish there was a simple button to advance a page instead of swiping. If the page would snap that would be better.
I have not tried any of the pay options.
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Well I'll be damned. I didn't even know it came with quickoffice preinstalled. I just found on the motorola support site that you don't see an app icon for it, but the program launches when you open one of it's supported files.
I was confused as to why i could search the market from the web or my phone and see the adobe reader, but not from my tablet. I use titanium backup pro so I just synced my backups to my dropbox, pulled it up on the Xoom, and got the apk that way. It's working great on the xoom too.

Any word processing apps?

im having a hard time finding a good processing app @[email protected]

What about Google Docs? Does it work in Android browser or Dolphin? It's quite good.

There's going to be QuickOffice Pro HD for Honeycomb coming out soon.
And if you subscribe with your email, there's going to be 30% discount when you purchase it.
http://www.quickoffice.com/quickoffice_connect_suite_android_hd/

MS Office Live
Has anyone tried MS office for web? It runs very good in chorme on desktop, waiting for my wifi xoom to see how it works in honeycomb browser
Search office live in google to find it i cant post outside links yet

I have paid for Documents to Go and Picsel Smart Office. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. I like Picsel because it is the only app so far that displays graphics correctly but track changes are not available until the next big release (they have a good customer support). D2G has the track changes but lacks a lot of correct rendering and PPT support is atrocious. I'm sure in the next 2-3 months we'll have a decent selection to choose from!

Both Office Live and Google Docs are too heavy for the Xoom browsers, which is to be expected, they are not exactly optimized for our screen size and lack of desktop horsepower.
They both run, but are very clunky.
I tried ThinkOffice, no go - FC off the bat.
OfficeSuite Pro trial seems to loose the document as you type, then goes into a "Recover your doc screen" - I couldn't even get a paragraph in with this.
I'm open to suggestions here, I really need a solid Doc/XLS app that won't have issues that hinder it - I don't need full fledge office or anything, but I do need something that will let me View/Edit and finding one that does bullet points would be freakin sweet.

I don't need anything for graphics really, I just really need to read pdf and word docs and be able to edit all of them
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niiza said:
I don't need anything for graphics really, I just really need to read pdf and word docs and be able to edit all of them
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Then Documents to Go and Picsel Smart Office should work for you! But only the paid version allows to edit

Kcarpenter said:
Both Office Live and Google Docs are too heavy for the Xoom browsers, which is to be expected, they are not exactly optimized for our screen size and lack of desktop horsepower.
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What do you mean? I use them on my home computer in the same resolution in a browser that scores less in SunSpider than the Xoom stock browser. Is it because of touch? How would it work with keyboard and mouse (or touchpad)? Have anyone tried?

I purchased the Quick Office HD and I have to say I am really impressed so far!
Works great on my Xoom.

kyxdadeveloper said:
I purchased the Quick Office HD and I have to say I am really impressed so far!
Works great on my Xoom.
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I cannot say that I am impressed with any of the currently available apps. Check out my comparison of Quick Office, Picsel SmartOffice and Documents to Go!

Magnesus said:
What do you mean? I use them on my home computer in the same resolution in a browser that scores less in SunSpider than the Xoom stock browser. Is it because of touch? How would it work with keyboard and mouse (or touchpad)? Have anyone tried?
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Try them, you can tell that the browsers struggles. More the office live than Google docs, but even with google docs there are things that you just have to have a mouse for. Sadly there is not yet an HTML standard for touch input as a replacement for mouse events. Especially with things like Hover, Drag, and Drop.
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I think that the office apps that are available in the market are more than adequate for some light editing and productivity on the go. Its not necessary for these apps to have full compatibility with desktop versions imho. Being far too critical really.
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I have been using quickoffice HD. So far its pretty good. I also have docs to go, whichnis good but the file browsing is better in quickoffice.
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Accophox said:
I think that the office apps that are available in the market are more than adequate for some light editing and productivity on the go. Its not necessary for these apps to have full compatibility with desktop versions imho. Being far too critical really.
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Sure, I can also use my phone for typing but what I need a tablet to do is to recognize basic fonts, comments, and paragraph formatting. I don't think we're expecting too much. If I want a text editor that's different but if you claim to have a "professional" office suite and can't even display the symbol font then something's not right. But I'm glad it works for you!

i also ordered quick office HD and I mainly use powerpoint but quick office keeps auto advancing the slides. I don't want to have to keep pressing the pause button every time I manually advance the slides. Does anyone know how to turn off the auto advancing so that I can just manually advance the slides when I want to?

I have Quickoffice Pro HD. Not too impressed with it. I'm a college student so I bought my Xoom for notetaking in my classes (and because I am an Android freak). It works well enough for notes, but not as I would like it to. Formatting is very weird, and the worst part is no auto correct or spell check. If I am going to type fast and efficiently, I can't be going back every five seconds to touch the screen and change a letter. Very frustrating.
I'm hoping the office tech catches up with tablets soon. Don't really understand why I can't just have the same text functionality in my word processing app that I do in my Gmail or text messages.

IXIKelsonIXI said:
I have Quickoffice Pro HD. Not too impressed with it. I'm a college student so I bought my Xoom for notetaking in my classes (and because I am an Android freak). It works well enough for notes, but not as I would like it to. Formatting is very weird, and the worst part is no auto correct or spell check. If I am going to type fast and efficiently, I can't be going back every five seconds to touch the screen and change a letter. Very frustrating.
I'm hoping the office tech catches up with tablets soon. Don't really understand why I can't just have the same text functionality in my word processing app that I do in my Gmail or text messages.
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My auto correct works in quick office hd.
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Isn't autocorrect also a feature of the keyboard that you use? I have to admit that none of the keyboards I tried so far has as good an autocorrect as my iPhone :-(
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