I have been looking for a good RSS reader for Honeycomb. I loaded a few and found one called JustReader. I find this reader very good, but everyone has different needs. Here is a quick video of some of the features. You can download a Ad version, which is free. Or purchase it for $2.99 for the Market Place.
Thanks for this. I'd been using Newsr but this is much better. Appreciate the heads up on this. Your video shows its setup very nicely. I now have a new RSS reader that works better for my purpose.
Me too. Love how simple and clean it is.
Your welcome. I had also tried Newsr but also didn't like the layout. JustReader gets better after ever update.
You should try out Reader HD, its really nice, similar layout to JustReader and cheaper at $1.99
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I am using Feedly and i love it.. it's free, it works seamlessly with your Google Reader account (plus Instapaper, Read it Later and many more services) and I personally like the interface better than any other reader I tried.
It used to be a bit buggy in the past, but it has got much better lately.
Personally, I find Pulse a really nice and easy one to use.
Good find here though!
Pulse is good but I tend to make adjustments to my list of blogs all the time, on my PC. I like Newsr's ability to aggregate whole topics since individual blogs don't update as fast as say, Lifehacker or Engadget.
My problem with Newsr is that you cannot read 'read' items, so if it FCs on ya or you accidenly close it, you read that topic and you are forces to use another reader program to get that article.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Just wanted to throw out that I've been using the Aldiko reader as a PDF viewer and have been pretty happy with it.
I am hoping they work on the speed sometime since the Xoom could probably handle some programing that phones couldnt but I've been pretty pleased with this.
You can import PDF files to your shelf and then setup catalogs.
It also saves your place in the PDF if you leave it.
As I said I have been pretty happy with it.
I haven't tried Aldiko on the Xoom yet, as I had some major issues with it on my CDMA HTC Hero.
I tried ezPDF Reader, and so far it has my vote in its speed and functionality.
One thing to note though, is at certain zoom levels it seems to not "re-focus" the text. Other times it will just hang and continually load the page.
Besides those two nagging issues, I'm glad I spent the dollar on it.
I tried Aldiko, repligo, and ezpdf. ezpdf is by far the best. Both in quality (best for math/physics papers), and in speed.
Aldiko seems to FC a lot on my WiFi Xoom. Does anyone know if the paid version is any better?
I tried Aldiko and find the text to be blurry. I've since switched to ezPDFReader and for the same pdf, ezPDFReader is far clearer
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I second the above post. I tried Aldiko and found that it did not render the text very clearly. The built in QuickOffice rendered the page very clearly but I do not like the page scrolling. EZpdf was an Amazon App of the Day a few days ago so I gave that a try. I have been very happy with it and use it exclusively for pdfs now.
This is a tablet optimized reader and I'm loving it more than pulse on my Xoom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keKbUjsXAKQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
No affiliation here - I bought NewsR and love it.
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Just bought it an already in love. Wish touchdown would adopt this simple interface.
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I would agree. Have been using this for a couple of days and has replaced newsrob as my go-to Google reader app. Love the interface and new features are coming quickly.
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I think it needs to be a lil faster fetching feeds and I hope they offer a White on black theme.
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Offline for Newsr?
I would agree that Newsr is definitely onto something, however I think its missing one key thing which is offline capability (download/read/sync when online).
Can anyone think of a reason this couldn't be accomplished?
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I would agree that Newsr is definitely onto something, however I think its missing one key thing which is offline capability (download/read/sync when online).
Can anyone think of a reason this couldn't be accomplished?
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This was my exact question I had before buying. Thanks for clarifying.
This can be done as NewRob already does this on Android phones. I would like to see offline capabilities that downloads the entire article and not just the RSS feed blurb with a link. I have seen other RSS apps be able to do this.
considering that i've been using the official google reader app cause that's what i'm used to on my N1, this is a huge improvement, consider it bought.
Bought it last night. Awesome!
Just bought. Very nice interface and quite snappy. Some room for improvement but snappy none-the-less.
I agree and would like to see some offline component to it but that is not a dealbreaker for me - i'll always have 3G (hopefully soon 4G) coverage but for those with Wi-Fi only tablets that will likely be a must have part of this app.
Kuddos to the developer for optimizing this for Honeycomb. Now I get to ditch Pulse!!
You should all email the dev (Chris Stewart) - his email is in the app description or support info. He's been very responsive and seems to be open to suggestions/feedback.
I got in at 1.0 and it's improved very fast since then already.
I'm using an app called Feedly. works great, has a magazine like layout and its free
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I'm using an app called Feedly. works great, has a magazine like layout and its free
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Doesn't seem optimized in any shape for the XOOM. Do you have a beta or something?
no beta, here is a link to the app https://market.android.com/details?id=com.devhd.feedly&feature=search_result
I'm Chris, and I'm the developer for Newsr. Really glad to see the positive remarks throughout this thread. Glad you're all enjoying the app and I definitely have more coming for it, and additional Honeycomb-optimized apps. If you have any suggestions, feedback, etc, don't hesitate to email me: [email protected].
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I would agree that Newsr is definitely onto something, however I think its missing one key thing which is offline capability (download/read/sync when online).
Can anyone think of a reason this couldn't be accomplished?
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Offline is definitely something I'm working on for a future release. It's coming...
Gizmodo posted a list of RSS readers today and forgot Newsr so I gave it a shout out in the comments since I like and use Newsr much more than the other two they mentioned for Honeycomb.
http://gizmodo.com/#!5791676/not-dead-yet-the-ultimate-guide-to-rss-in-2011
Thanks for the support, I appreciate it!
I actually just pushed out version 1.10 tonight which includes a few highly requested features:
-- Token authorization uses any Google account now, not just gmail.com and googlemail.com accounts.
-- Can now view starred articles in the label view.
-- Implemented the native “Share” feature of Google Reader.
Plenty more coming, so stay tuned!
I am honestly thinking about getting this. I have never use google reader before, but I have used pulse reader...And I have to say that this looks like it has a cooler and overall easier to understand UI then pulse does.
Another video Overview on Newsr. Little more in depth. I think its great.
I bought the kfhd primarily for free books and overall tablet goodness.
Anyone know of any good school apps? I'm personally looking for one with the ability to drawn on and edit pdfs. Also a better keyboard, but that's not happening any time soon...
I use my kindle for class. If you root it, you can install OneNote from the play store. I couldn't get sync to work before rooting, but now it's wonderful.
I would recommend installing Swype or your choice of a faster typing method, or even buying the (expensive) Bluetooth keyboard. I bought the stylus recommended by Amazon and it has definitely sped up my swyping. It also helps keep my screen clean.
I also purchased the foxit keyboard app, which I think is even available in the Amazon store for a couple of bucks. They make my favorite desktop application for reading pdfs, so I thought I'd give their app a shot. It seems to work pretty well, and syncs notes and color scribbles with desktop version, but I haven't played around with it much yet.
Good luck!
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