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Anyone know of a good ebook reader for android? Would like one I can load files off the sdcard.

http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.android.aldiko

FBReaderJ
http://www.fbreader.org/FBReaderJ/
http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.geometerplus.zlibrary.ui.android
- Open source
- Many text rendering options
- Open source
- Will have feedbooks integration in next major version (already provides .epub handling intent for opening epubs straight from browser)
- Did I mention it's open source?

i use docs to go, and just convert any books i find into the doc format...sucks sometimes if files are to big but, free is free
(assuming download torrents for everything)

All of my ebooks are in PDF format - there was only one app I was able to find to read them with a decent interface and no internet support necessary.
RepliGo Reader - bookmark support, reading mode, fast, reads SDCard, etc. Good stuff. WELL worth the $8. I would never pay that much for an app - but I have gotten that $8 back over and over through use. Good investment.

I second FBReaderJ - it's being actively developed, is easy to use, free, and supports epub - which is what all the ebook readers are standardising on atm.
If you have an extensive .lit ebook collection like me *cough* then you can use lit2epub on ubuntu/debian to convert your entire ebook collection over to epub.
Highly recommended!

I'll third fbreaderj. I have been using it on my ADP1 for the last 6 months. Throughout its development it has been actively supported and the number of supported formats have grown. The developer frequents a google groups forum, as well as using other ways of reporting bugs/feature requests.
Currently supported formats:
.epub
.oeb
.fb2
.mobi
If your books are in a different format, I suggest using calibre to convert. Works great!(http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/download)

Thanks for all the suggestions, FBReaderJ def. seems like the best one out there right now. And thanks ex-Min for suggesting calibre, works great.

if you know were to look you can get repligo reader for free

speoples20 said:
Thanks for all the suggestions, FBReaderJ def. seems like the best one out there right now. And thanks ex-Min for suggesting calibre, works great.
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I find these settings work nicely:
In Settings:
Check all the options under Scrolling
In Settings (Old):
Under Format, change Alignment to Left
Under Styles, change Family to Serif and Size to 22.
I've read a considerable number of books with these settings on FBReaderJ.
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For getting books onto the G1, I generally use one of two methods. If i'm on the go, i'll search and grab it directly from feedbooks.mobi site. If i'm in front of my computers, i'll navigate to the specific book on my desktop and right click on the epub link. Using the Mobile Barcoder Firefox plugin, it will generate a QR code which I can easily scan in with the G1.
Of course as I mentioned, an upcoming version of FBReaderJ should have an integrated feedbooks library (no need to get the epub link from the browser). Until then, the above methods are workable.

Wow, I have to say, I used the FBreader, with the calibre to convert and its SOOOO easy and so nice to save bookmarks, and converting to epub is so easy. HUGE thumbs up!

Is there a way to get calibre to convert books from Barnes and Noble to convert with calibre. I tested it using their preview, and that converted but when i bought the full version of my book, it says it can't convert due to DRM. Or is that one of those things we can't talk about on here.

Just to chuck my hat in the ring
Alkido is much better IMHO, very slick GUI and download section, can import other epubs and is free if you want it to be. you can pay for it (which is recommend doing as it's ace) or use the free veersion - both are identical, both are on the market.

Ereader is now available
i agree with A.S. Alkido is very nice.
I used to use Ereader on various other platforms and am happy that you can now get it on Android here
its still a Beta but its fairly stable, and im sure its going to get better

Definately AuduaReader its my favourite app easily . FB and all those other ones are far too bothersome this looks nice and is simple and never breaks.

Aldiko and Office Suite. Both are great and at a lower prince than most! Aldiko for .epub and Office Suite for .pdf, .doc, .xls, .txt, and .ppt! Can't beat that...
One thing though... I REALLY miss PDFViewer from the Hayruko ROMS! I wish we could get it ported over to Cyan 4.2.5....

Ebook Reader for Android?

Hi,
Just wondering if there is a ebook reader on the Android Marketplace? Currently I use Mobipocket and Ereader.com but there software doesn't seem to support Android, is there another program I can use to read books from these sites??

Aldiko has a great UI, handles formatting really good and the company just released a free version. FBReader is also good.

Thanks for that droid will have a look at them when my phone turns up tomorrow. I know tha mobipocket has protection on their books so I expect to not be able to read them but is there a way to conver these books so that Aldiko or FBReader can display them?

Aldiko uses .epub as its format, and you can convert to this using a prog called Calibre.
There's also Repligo Reader which I think uses .pdf
If you can convert to .pdf, there are a few readers and most have a view allowing WordWrapping or automatic alteration of lines length to fit the screen. Think I like Aldiko best as it has left to right swiping for reading instead of scrolling upwards, and also has a black on white and white on black mode changer. Well worth the money and the converter, plus lots of free .epub books available.
Dayzee xxx

+1 for Aldiko - lets you choose fonts, colours - and has a lookup facility (though not a dictionary -0.001).
Checkout Calibre for conversion to epub, as Dayzee says.
Also checkout "ProcessTextGroup" for "Amber LIT Converter" - will convert MS .Lit files to .html (but use care, as i recall - a confusing download).
i.e. Amber will convert .lit to .html
then Calibre will convert .html to .epub
- Amber will not read DRM protected files.

Best of all is WordPlayer v3. Its free and it can use TTS (text to speech) engine. I can put on my earphones and listen to my ebooks even during a car drive. I use TTS on my laptop since ages and thats much superior way of enjoing ebooks than using your eyes. But most amazing is that there is free polish (and other exotic languages) tts engine for android! WP3 uses epub format so use callibre with it...

Thanks guys will check all those out when my Hero arrives I also sent an email to Ereader.com and got a reply saying they are working on an Android version of there software so can't wait for that, unfortunetly they didn't give any release times/dates

[Q] Best large pdf reader?

Does anyone have any good recommendations for viewing large pdfs? I had been using RepliGo but it crashes when I try to read magazine pdfs that are 40mb+. Adobe Reader and ezPDF both "work" but they're much slower in terms of page turning and zooming than RepliGo. Thanks.

Nobody has any recommendations?

I would've suggested ezPDF but I see that you've already tried it.
ezPDF seems very quick in page turning for me, but I'm usually using it for books, and not magazines.
There's an option to change the page flipping speed in case you haven't tried that. Otherwise, sorry, you've already tried all the best options I have experience with.

Thanks, I had suspected (and was afraid) that I had exhausted all of my options. The magazine pdfs are very image-heavy as you might imagine, so that probably accounts for the slowness. I didn't know that ezPDF had a page flipping speed option though. I'll take a look at it tonight. If anyone else has other recommendations, then I'd love to hear them.

try the adobe reader...?

Would it help to convert it to another format first with something like Calibre?

Have you tried Aldiko? I don't know how it compares to the other options listed, but it's tolerable for pdf textbooks.

I've sold my Nook.
But I tried out some different readers.
I can still remember
vudroid - little slow in rendering pages, but when it has them rendered it works great
beamreader - I remember using that one once in a while
repligo..
ezpdfreader..
quickoffice..
documentstogo pro..
aldiko..
adobe pdf..
I actually had a pdf-reader for every different type of pdf - large, more text, more pictures....
I would just try them all out....

xdabr said:
Would it help to convert it to another format first with something like Calibre?
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I had considered that but I wanted to see if I could get it working natively first. I also wasn't sure what format I could possibly convert it to since the magazine pdfs are very image-intensive and it seems that Calibre is mostly for text conversion? Someone correct me if I'm wrong since I haven't actually used Calibre yet.
ingrown said:
Have you tried Aldiko? I don't know how it compares to the other options listed, but it's tolerable for pdf textbooks.
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I did. Unfortunately it was probably the slowest of all.
comdei said:
try the adobe reader...?
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AZImmortal said:
Does anyone have any good recommendations for viewing large pdfs? I had been using RepliGo but it crashes when I try to read magazine pdfs that are 40mb+. Adobe Reader and ezPDF both "work" but they're much slower in terms of page turning and zooming than RepliGo. Thanks.
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Bumping because I want to install RepliGo but it says it is not compatible on my device (the market on the Nook itself has no download button, and the web-based version says it is not compatible). I'm on a recently CM7 nightly. Any way to get around this?

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Bumping because I want to install RepliGo but it says it is not compatible on my device (the market on the Nook itself has no download button, and the web-based version says it is not compatible). I'm on a recently CM7 nightly. Any way to get around this?
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Look around and do a search you will fine 10± threads with solutions.
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Repligo is the best I've ever used.

Maybe try APV? It's in the market. It's open source and in early development.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186949
The developer might be able to assist if you try a large pdf and it's not loading correctly.
I like it cause it's the only pdf reader I know that will keep custom zoom settings per book. Fit to width is usually not good enough for me as some pdf's have say large page #'s which are detected by fit to width.

I use ezPDF its as good as it gets...use it and be happy until something better comes along.

I recently discovered Mantano Reader. It is very new and might be buggy but has mostly good reviews in the market. My favorite feature is fixed zoom which other readers do not support.

Tried Repligo by prefer EZpdf. The zoom reflow is great for 2 column books and journal articles. Software loads a little slowly but no issues with page turn speed.

ezPDF for me

I use ezpdf, I paid for it and I use it with my 180M PDF text books all the time, bit slow loading sometimes, but the nooks hardware isnt all that great.

cityoke2 said:
I use ezpdf, I paid for it and I use it with my 180M PDF text books all the time, bit slow loading sometimes, but the nooks hardware isnt all that great.
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+1 for ezPDF. The ability to highlight text, along with several other features, make it a great PDF reader. I regularly use 70mb+ PDF's with it on the Nook and have no problems. I would suggest, however, using a fast (class 6 or higher) SD card if you are experiencing issues with slow loading. Not all class 6 SD cards are equal, so do your research before buying. I just ordered, and installed, a Transcend class 6 micro SD card from Amazon for ~$7.00 shipped and large PDF's now load in half the time.

Zrom said:
I recently discovered Mantano Reader. It is very new and might be buggy but has mostly good reviews in the market. My favorite feature is fixed zoom which other readers do not support.
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What's fixed zoom do?

Share your Calibre setup for converting PDF's on Xoom??

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..

PDF reader

I've been trying to look for a well functioning PDF app for this nook since i originally bought it for the purpose of textbooks for my school. I am able to find the necessary textbooks, but i have issues accessing specific chapters from the default PDF reader. I was looking for the idea to author some PDF's so i can mark pages as starting point for the chapters. Has anybody found success at finding any good PDF reader such as that?
PDF Readers that are broke:
QuickOffice
Adobe Reader
DocumentsToGO

Repligo and ezPDF. Both allows annotation and bookmarking. Give it a try!

Cool thank you!
Actually ezPDF works pretty decently and Repligo has a few isses though...I've noticed that when you turn the pages too fast it doesn't register, which isn't that big of a deal; but bookmarking breaks when trying to access.

Yes, but Repligo reflows .pdf better.

Hi
ezpdf available in nook str only when rooted or have other way for install ezpdf
Thanks

ezpdf is only available when rooted. Rooting does work fine, and when done properly, is painless.

Do pdf readers software after root my nook str dive me allows annotation and bookmarking and zoom for any pdfs (with and without drm) ?
is any free software remove drm in pdf files?

I try Mantano Reader and think it's greate to epub or pdf books (the only that I can adjust diferents pdfs files with a good quality), integrated with Adobe Digital Reader wich allows to read DRM books. Have a lot of options to configure it and if you spend a little time you will have a nice experience with your nook touch! I was i little bit frustrated with read pdfs in the nook touch but now with Mantano I'm happy.

Mantano is the best for me (plus the side buttons works).
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I try Mantano Reader and think it's greate to epub or pdf books (the only that I can adjust diferents pdfs files with a good quality), integrated with Adobe Digital Reader wich allows to read DRM books. Have a lot of options to configure it and if you spend a little time you will have a nice experience with your nook touch! I was i little bit frustrated with read pdfs in the nook touch but now with Mantano I'm happy.
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