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Q: Best eBook reader?

I am currently using the uBook reader (have been for 3-4 years now), but woul love to try something newer and maybe better.
I usually convert any book I want to read to TXT format, as uBook does a great job at rendering TXT.
Most of the readers I've encountered in a Google search (such as MobiReader) require you to download books from their store, but seeing as I'm getting all my books in free form (Guttenberg, Google, other ways ) these type of readers don't really fit me.
So, in your opinion which is the best eBook reader for the Windows Mobile platform?

I once used the Microsoft Reader. There are lots of books in that format also. However I stopped reading due to my small screen estate on the touch pro and my somehow failing eyes.

i use ereader
i use Ereader found here http://www.ereader.com/ereader/software/browse.htm. i like it a lot, it categorizes your books with a nice little interface. has options for font size and background, supports auto scroll. it looks very nice on the raphs beautiful screen. must convert the books to a format compatible for it, wasn't too hard to find a program by googling. check it out

I've used ereader a lot, but now use mobipocket-you can download almost all the books on gutenberg (or manybooks.net, which I use once in a while) in mobi format. You can also open up books in a few other formats with mobi (as long as there's no drm, I think). So I would recommend checking it out. I have never used ubook before, so I can't compare.
What's good about mobipocket? Well, it has a full-screen mode, that is really nice, especially on the fuze's small screen. More words per page = less page scrolling. That's the primary difference between it and ereader. With ereader, you can't get rid of the two menu bars, and they suck up space and also make the screen look kind of crappy. Let me tell you, set the background to black, with a light green or blue font, and mobi looks spectacular on the fuze. The screen totally blends in with the black borders of the device.
OTOH, ereader has the flash reading mode (can't remember the name) which is pretty cool from time to time. It will flash one, two or three words at a time at the top of the screen at an adjustable rate. So then the screen size doesn't matter at all. You just sit there and zone out and stare at one spot on the screen. It's a great option if, say, you are re-reading a chapter that you forgot a lot of stuff in, or if the book you're reading is boring, and you just want to blast through it. Ereader does a good job of pagination. Because of the ability to flip between a regular screen and the full screen mode with mobi, it doesn't paginate well at all (doesn't really even try). There's a progress bar that gives you an idea of how far along you are in the book, but the pages don't help. Mobi also has an annoying bug: when you first turn it on, if you scroll back beyond the page showing first, it hops back 10-20 pages. It's always a good idea to bookmark the first page read when you turn it on.
One other cool thing about mobi is that it allows you to add drawings and modify the text. I don't remember being able to do that with ereader. Sometimes you're bored, and adding an illustration is a nice diversion, or if the book sucks, you can change the text to liven things up. Hey, it's fun.
You can buy mobi books from booksonboard.com and fictionwise.com, too. They tend to have a better selection and prices than mobipocket.com. (You can get ereader books from those sites, too.)
Oh, yeah, I totally recommend getting GScroll if you're going to use mobipocket (not sure about the other ebook apps). It makes scrolling through pages much easier. You just scratch you finger lightly down the capacitative pad to move forward a page (or up to move back). It's much easier than pressing buttons. I tested out diamondscroll and dredscroll (think that's the name), and neither worked in this application for me.

I used a combination of Microsoft Reader and MobiReader.

I thought Microsoft reader wasn't supported by smartphones? although I haven't gotten around to testing it.

I use both ereader and mobipocket. In fact I have close to 2000 ebooks. If you KNOW where to look you can find tons of good books in mobi format.

+ 1 for microsoft reader for pocket pc. it works PERFECTLY with all my windows mobile devices, and there are huge libraries of .lit books. I've never bothered with mobi reader, mostly becuase ms reader does what i want it to. if the words are too small, it does give you the option to make em bigger or smaller.

mobirreader is what i have used in the past and was able to find and read full novels with it. seemed to work great on my Kaiser, have yet to try on my TP but i bet it would be fine.

Currently I use Microsoft Reader, Mobireader, Isilo, MicroOLAP CHM Reader and Repligo.
Repligo is a very nice reader but only can read .rgo format which is its own format. Normally I convert PDF to RGO for readibility.
For free ebook I download them from memoware.com or through some google.
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Microsoft reader?
Tried it, and yeah, I can't seem to get microsoft reader to work on the raphael- If i run the instal from the device, it's not a valid application, If i run it on the pc it doesn't give an option to install to device.

i use this one http://haali.cs.msu.ru/pocketpc/

AlReader is the best
I'm using AlReader. I think it's the best ebook reader, here is a list of features:
AllReader+ supports TXT, HTML, RTF, FB2, PDB/PRC (PalmDOC, zTXT mode 1), DOC, DOCX, ODT, SXW, ABW, ZABW, CHM, and TCR formats.
The application allows you view the text in Regular or Full screen mode. You can also rotate the screen to 90, 180, 270 degrees.
With AllReader+ you can read books, make bookmarks, save quotes, configure profiles and settings and take advantage of many more options. You can even read your favorite books in the night by choosing Day&Night profile!
Features:
* Screen rotation to 90, 180, 270 degrees.
* Reading of text files with following formats: TXT, HTML, RTF, FB2, PDB/PRC (PalmDOC, zTXT mode 1), TCR.
* Profiles Day&Night. Each profile includes settings of text font, text and background color, settings of status line, etc.
* Work with hyperlinks.
* Regular and Full screen modes.
* Status line including time, battery, pages amount, percentage of read text.
* Support of original text styles and images.
* Feature-rich text optimization.
* Joystick buttons are reforming along with screen rotation.
* Regulation of interline interval and symbol spacing.
* Justification.
* Works with Dict, Lingvo and Slovoed dictionaries.
* 4 types of scrolling: Wave, Line, Smooth and Auto turn Pages;
* Background graphic support.
* Bookmarks with navigation along them.
* Search of any text line. Using in search line symbol “?” which is interpreted as any symbol.
* Proper English hyphenation.
* The search is case insensitive.
* Text crossing (by percentage and by pages).
* Quotations keeping.
* File saving as TXT or PDB in voluntary encoding.
* Permanent screen backlight is available.
7 days trial is available here: http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/W...t-Viewer/AllReader-plus-Pocket-PC-61803.shtml

it sounsa like you've installed the wrong version. make sure it's the one for PPC
faustianoverdrive said:
Tried it, and yeah, I can't seem to get microsoft reader to work on the raphael- If i run the instal from the device, it's not a valid application, If i run it on the pc it doesn't give an option to install to device.
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Mobipocket!!!
you don't have to buy them from their store you can get a word or pdf file and convert it to their format with their desktop manager.

Just tried Mobireader, and it's actually quite good.
I have just one problem with it. I usually turn pages by clicking on the screen, I hate using the hardware buttons for that. But if I accidentally click on the text (instead of the margins), it goes to the dictionary menu. Is there any way to disable this?
Thanks everyone for your replies!

alonroz said:
Just tried Mobireader, and it's actually quite good.
I have just one problem with it. I usually turn pages by clicking on the screen, I hate using the hardware buttons for that. But if I accidentally click on the text (instead of the margins), it goes to the dictionary menu. Is there any way to disable this?
Thanks everyone for your replies!
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Gscroll (mobilesrc.com) is totally the way to go; you just slide your finger down on the capacitative pad to move forward a page, and up to go back a page. It helps keep fingerprints off the screen, too.

Farmer Ted said:
Gscroll (mobilesrc.com) is totally the way to go; you just slide your finger down on the capacitative pad to move forward a page, and up to go back a page. It helps keep fingerprints off the screen, too.
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Checked it out, works brilliantly! Thanks!

Whats the best pdf reading app?

Hi,
Downloaded a few ebooks onto my Hero, was looking for a pdf viewer to read them. The adobe app doesnt cut it... no bookmarks, or pagejump? i wonder why they left those key features out...
Anyway, im after an app that will show me my pdf's in colour, and in text view (as in adobe reader app). But also have the ability to bookmark pages, so i know where i have read upto, and can come back to key highlighted points.
What are your suggestions? I have tried beamreader also, but cant find an option to create my own bookmarks so im guessing it does not have this feature
Any help is appreciated
Thanks

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Have you looked at Aldiko app, I think it uses .epub but u could always convert using calibre on your computer

The stock Adobe Reader

[Q] "Complete" Word Processor for G-Tab

I have both DocumentsToGo, and QuickOffice on my G-Tab. DocsToGo will let you open a Word Doc, but when you go to edit, it opens a new edit dialog with the previous sentence (at most) visible. It does not seem to allow you to edit many formatting options, and I can't see any way to use it to insert an image file into a document. QuickOffice lets you edit inline, but otherwise seems to have the same limitations.
Is there a "complete" word processing program for the G-Tab that will let me do some formatting and insert pictures, as well as produce a .DOC or .DOCX compatible file?
Is there some way to setup Google Docs like this, and have it be available if I don't have a connection (maybe through dropbox)?
TIA!

I'm using the QuickOffice HD from the Notion Ink Adam and it works great!
It's available via this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928832
Right now, the current version lets you connect to Google Docs and both edit AND create new documents (Word, Excel, PPT) as well as read PDFs
You could easily open a document up and re-save it internal to your gTablet for offline use -- or as you suggest use Dropbox to keep a local folder synced up for offline use...
Google only recently added support for the XML office files to GDocs -- so creation of new documents in those formats isn't natively supported in this version (but may be available in a newer version of QuickOffice HD I suppose)
Long Pressing in a Word document brings up a dialog with the following options:
- Add Image from Gallery
- Add Image from Camera
- Select Text
- Input Method
You can also change Fonts (inc. set Bold, Underline, Italic, etc), Alignment, Colour...
I think that just about meets your requirements (?) -- give it a try...

+1 for quickoffice tablet addition from notion ink. Works great for me!

OK, have given it a try. To begin with, I feel a little odd using it since I can't find the HD version in the market, so have to wonder if it won't up and die on me at some point.
In any event, I was able to insert and resize a picture, but couldn't find any way to select just the picture so I could try to center it. Selection handles seem a bit difficult to operate. Also could not find any way to edit my headers or footers, or to apply my document styles for chapter hearings.
Tool may support all this, but the online help isn't the greatest either. Half tempted to register and see if there have been any updates.
FWIW

The HD version is great. Use it for my college classes and I love it. Have the USB case and this and ur good to go. Being integrated with google docs and dropbox is a nice feature too
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I just side loaded the Notion Ink Quick Office app, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a document. Am I supposed to create a Google Docs account or something? Or should I just be able to create a document on my G tab?

goog64 said:
I just side loaded the Notion Ink Quick Office app, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a document. Am I supposed to create a Google Docs account or something? Or should I just be able to create a document on my G tab?
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I think you click the app (e.g., word), then select SDCARD, then press the small + at the bottom, which will popup file or folder choice.
Jim

Got it, thanks. Very cool!

Wow i must say the Quickoffice HD is way better than my DocstoGo full at this moment. Wasted my money on Docstogo...
I like the ported canvas app as well.

This seems to be much better than doctogo.
It asked about registering it do I need to?

Nope it's optional.
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pdf help

Hi is there any pdf reader for the g tablet that you can mark the text???

RepliGo PDF Reader. You can highlight (if the text is understood as text, depends on how the PDF was made), put sticky notes, and draw freehand. The last option isn't optimal, but once you get used to it, it's reasonably functional. It's not free, but it seems to be the only option out there, and $5 isn't too bad if you're like me and your work really benefits from this functionality.

excelent, it is perfect

Also, the QuickOffice HD that Gojimi ported over from the Adam has a viewer as well as Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
Looks REALLY good on the gTab!

Thank you but the quick office can't highlight the pdf text, or am i wrong?

pablo737 said:
Thank you but the quick office can't highlight the pdf text, or am i wrong?
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You are correct, niether RepliGo or QuickOffice can highlight text in the form you are thinking of. RepliGo can "Select Text" to copy but it can't highlight text as with Adobe Acrobat (for PC's) does when you are using PDF like you would a text book and a highlighter to quickly find vital text for homework and assignments etcc..
I've used ThinkFree, Quick Office, RepliGo, and ezPDF but niether can highlight text and save the highlighted text to the document you are working with.
I've yet to find an apk that can match Adobe Acrobat as far as that function goes.

Tek - no, RepliGo can actually highlight text. And make sticky notes. And do other annotation. And it saves it to the document. I keep all the PDFs I use for my work on my Dropbox; when it syncs the changes I make via RepliGo, I can pull that PDF up on a computer and see the notes - hand written, highlighted, or sticky.
It can't match Adobe, but it does more than the QuickOffice suite does.
[EDIT] I've attached a screenshot of me using Reader to see drawn markups and a sticky note. This was a scan of a document written in 1926, so highlighting wasn't possible (the text is an image, not characters), but still, it demonstrates that the markups were made in RepliGo and are visible via Adobe.

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Tek - no, RepliGo can actually highlight text. And make sticky notes. And do other annotation. And it saves it to the document. I keep all the PDFs I use for my work on my Dropbox; when it syncs the changes I make via RepliGo, I can pull that PDF up on a computer and see the notes - hand written, highlighted, or sticky.
It can't match Adobe, but it does more than the QuickOffice suite does.
[EDIT] I've attached a screenshot of me using Reader to see drawn markups and a sticky note. This was a scan of a document written in 1926, so highlighting wasn't possible (the text is an image, not characters), but still, it demonstrates that the markups were made in RepliGo and are visible via Adobe.
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I've seen the error of my ways, I've been browsing the PDF files on my network via Estrongs and simply opening them up from the network. What I did not see was that the files were being cached to a temp folder and opened as read only!
I copied a bunch of PDF files to my GTAB and then from there I was able to edit them (higlight, sticky, etcc) using REpliGo V3.1.2.
I should have realized it will only edit "native" documents.
Thanks for the heads up!

[App] Reader for scientific documents (TeX/LaTeX/PDFTeX)

Since I have invested quite some effort searching for the best reader to use for scientific documents, I thought I would create this thread to tell other people what I found; maybe it will save someone some work:
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In mathematics, physics, parts of computer science and other scientific disciplines we use a typesetting system called TeX to make our documents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX It is a pretty powerful system that ensure beautiful typesetting, page layouts, logical structure, bibliographies etc. almost automatically. In addition, it is the only real way to make mathematical formulae, so in many subjects there is no alternative anyway.
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Using the NST with documents coming from this system is tricky: The re-flowing features of all PDF readers I know of will break these complex documents. Also, they destroy the aesthetics of the documents. So what we need is a reader that can display them in their original layout, but still in a usable way. The only workable solution I have found so far is "Mantano Reader" together with the "Smart Rotator" app.
In Mantano you can double tap on the text section of a TeX document and the reader will automatically fit this text section into the display. While all PDF readers can do this, it works much better here: If you now scroll up and down, you will stay "locked" horizontally, so you don't lose the column will scrolling.
Even when you go to the next page, the lock to the column remains. This even seems to work, when then column is not in the same place (e.g. because the PDF is a book, so it has different left and right margins on even and odd pages).
There is a feature to remove whitespace around the TeX document. Generally this works reasonably, although sometimes it bugs a little. I personally don't use it, as the double tap zoom already works well.
It supports the NST page nav buttons without any hacks.
The interface is quite ugly and disorganized; the file browser horrible. But you don't notice these things while actually reading, and I guess you can't have everything.
I combined this app with the "Smart Rotator" app from the market. This allows you to set screen orientations individually for all apps. I set Mantano to Landscape and all other apps to Portrait. In landscape mode the screen really is wide enough to read comfortably TeX documents on the NST, even without reflowing.
Mantano reader: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mantano.reader.android.trial
Smart rotator: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.xdevelop.rotator_t

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It supports the NST page nav buttons without any hacks.
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I'm always interested in this because B&N snarfed some unallocated keycodes to use for the four hard keys.
Are you saying that all four hard keys cause some sort of page up/page down?
It seems to me that if a software provider didn't know about the Nook then only the left two keys would do something.

Yes all four work as they should.

Thank you, it works fine
Imo, the only major drawback is when you use the NST buttons or you tap the screen, it goes to the following page (it would be better if it just scrolled down a little).
Ebookdroid (particularly with NoRefresh) and APV PDF Viewer (optimized for the nook) are also rather good

Yes I agree, that is a little annoying.
Also, it does not support multitouch.