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[Q] Robust PDF Reader Please

I've taken in creating PDFs of my school textbooks from the eBooks I purchase from the publisher. It simply more convenient to carry my GTab with four or five textbooks, rather than the books themselves. Unfortunately, the PDF reader supplied by Adobe really basically sucks. Specifically, there doesn't seem to be a way to go to specific pages, expect by a slider bar (rather than typing a page), and worse still, does allow the use of bookmarks and chapter labels that I put in the book.
Can anyone recommend a PDF reader that works well on the GTab, that allows me to directly reference page numbers, bookmarks, chapters, search functions, etc.? Free is better than not, but I'll don't mind paying for an actually useful app.
Please help.

hellsreach said:
I've taken in creating PDFs of my school textbooks from the eBooks I purchase from the publisher. It simply more convenient to carry my GTab with four or five textbooks, rather than the books themselves. Unfortunately, the PDF reader supplied by Adobe really basically sucks. Specifically, there doesn't seem to be a way to go to specific pages, expect by a slider bar (rather than typing a page), and worse still, does allow the use of bookmarks and chapter labels that I put in the book.
Can anyone recommend a PDF reader that works well on the GTab, that allows me to directly reference page numbers, bookmarks, chapters, search functions, etc.? Free is better than not, but I'll don't mind paying for an actually useful app.
Please help.
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Try ezPDF Reader. Has bookmark, search, and slider bar. It's not perfect, but works pretty well overall.
Nathan

Ezpdf reader works great on vegan 5
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I'm liking Ezpdf and Aldiko 2.0 (Aldiko Premium)

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I'm liking Ezpdf and Aldiko 2.0 (Aldiko Premium)
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Aldiko 2.0? That hasnt been released yet has it? They said 2.0 will have PDF support and I signed up to receive the alert, but I didnt get one yet.
You have it?

I use my g tab for the exact same purposes. Am in university and the new semester starts on Monday in this part of the globe.
Just bought repligo for 2.99. USD today. Very happy - does highlighting and bookmarks and notes for my notes and etextbooks.
(Btw I'm in Singapore (not a part of China xD ) - got a friend to bring it back for me last month, probably the first in Asia to have the g tab?)

cscotty said:
Aldiko 2.0? That hasnt been released yet has it? They said 2.0 will have PDF support and I signed up to receive the alert, but I didnt get one yet.
You have it?
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Aldiko Premium on the market is version 2.0: http://www.appbrain.com/app/aldiko-book-reader-premium/com.android.aldiko
I assume the free version will be updated to 2.0 eventually.

What's wrong with Acrobat Reader X? It's Robust, does searching, supported by Adobe, available free...
Just go to Adobe.com, get Acrobat reader, pick "other operating system" and select Android. Works great on every build and kernel I've tried so far.

eBook reader

Hey guys, can anyone recommend a good ebook reader that I can use to read downloaded books and PDFs?

Moon reader is my new favorite. Have used aldiko and nook before.
My life for Aiur

Moon+ looks to be pretty good, what I'm wondering is if the pro version is worth forking over 5 bucks for?

Moon + pro its the only one that has both text to speech and can synch across devices (using dropbox). Its the only one I use. (Use calibre on your PC with dedrm plugins to convert to epub and you can buy books from anywhere.)
You just have to wait for the upcoming update, because the current version doesn't work with jelly bean. However the update should be released any time now, since the developer has a version that fixed the disappearing text in jelly bean. If you email the developer I'm sure he would send you a link. I would post it, but I'm not sure its OK with him. I think the free version doesn't have text to speech, otherwise it seems the same. When you upgrade, make sure to try it with ivona voice to read to you, all other voices are way too robotic. Ivona is good enough to use on long drives, out during mindless chores.

Thanks for the tips, gonna check out Aldiko and Moon. Seems like Moon for jelly bean is out on market now!

I actually Like the Kindle App... But I'm a little Biased... I have a eInk kindle that I read on and all my books are stored on the amazon cloud (I just convert ePub to Mobi) also I love that my Spot in books is synced across my kindle iPhone and Nexus 7 (yes I have a little bit of everything)

Mantano is my reader of choice at the moment. I was previously using Aldiko. Can't stand Kindle or Nook apps, margins are way too wide and pointless book titles at the top of every page.

kisrita said:
Moon + pro its the only one that has both text to speech and can synch across devices (using dropbox). Its the only one I use. (Use calibre on your PC with dedrm plugins to convert to epub and you can buy books from anywhere.)
You just have to wait for the upcoming update, because the current version doesn't work with jelly bean. However the update should be released any time now, since the developer has a version that fixed the disappearing text in jelly bean. If you email the developer I'm sure he would send you a link. I would post it, but I'm not sure its OK with him. I think the free version doesn't have text to speech, otherwise it seems the same. When you upgrade, make sure to try it with ivona voice to read to you, all other voices are way too robotic. Ivona is good enough to use on long drives, out during mindless chores.
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I think you may have just helped me decide what to spend some of the $25 on . The dropbox sync alone is worth it. I've been using aldiko premium, but moon+ seems to have a lot more options.

For anyone else looking for solutions,
i tried aldiko and moon and they were great but I had a ton of .mobi files from my OG kindle days and it seems like FB reader is the best one that supports the most formats.

I noticed these programs do not have the page turner smooth animation like Google Play (Books) blue icon. Any app that has this smooth animation?

Is google books nice to? cant install it on my nexus one
is there a way to import books into google books?

Try GO Book reader. I have tried quite a few and found it to be the best. Aldiko is quite good too.

mparack said:
Try GO Book reader. I have tried quite a few and found it to be the best. Aldiko is quite good too.
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+1 on Go Book, this would be my e-reader of choice

You can try Kindle, it has plenty of reading options and text spacing etc.

I tried allot of readers, and I'm using them often
So if you ask me, have a look at mantano reader!!!
Best Allroundtalent to read PDF and epub books.
Moonreader pro is my second reader but I only use it to read epub books.
Hint: try tts option within both readers and use ivona tts engine from playstore!!!
Sent from my sweet little Blackbox

ky0nkyon said:
Moon reader is my new favorite. Have used aldiko and nook before.
My life for Aiur
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I use Moon+ reader. It syncs settings and book positions with dropbox (has to be activated within the settings) which is great if you hop from one rom to another. I've been using it on my phone for months and love it.

phoneaddict13 said:
I noticed these programs do not have the page turner smooth animation like Google Play (Books) blue icon. Any app that has this smooth animation?
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Moon Reader has page transitions. What's more, they are even better than Google Books' transitions, because they vary based on the direction of your swipe, and from what position, if you pull from the bottom right hand corner, the page "turns" from the bottom right hand corner.
Just dig around in the settings, the page animation is there.
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Alkido or whatever it's called sucks. They haven't updated it since march, and all 7" tablets revert to phone interface, which makes the menu button inaccessible. They haven't released a fix for this, despite 2 very high quality 7" tablets being released in this timeframe (Gtab 2 7.0 and the Nexus 7).
I would refrain from buying Alkido until the fix this problem.
Moon Reader all the way.

I've been using moon for awhile now too. You have several types of page turning animations if that your thing and in landscape you can set it up for dual pages like a regular book. Just play around with all the options there's tons. Since I have a kindle also dropbox is what really won me over so I can just convert everything or I even like the kindle app but more out of convenience, but since they've updated it alot lately you can mail yourself pdfs or other docs which will be converted for you and look perfect,which was a feature I missed from the actual kindle.

Any reader app out there (besides Moon) that supports syncing page positions? That's the only thing I miss from iBooks

ctbear said:
Any reader app out there (besides Moon) that supports syncing page positions? That's the only thing I miss from iBooks
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Mantano Reader Pro?
Sent from my sweet little Blackbox

[APP] Tiny Tiny RSS reader

Hi,
Tiny Tiny RSS is a PHP web application that gives you similar functionality than Google maps. Tiny Tiny RSS Reader is it's official Android reader that talks directly to the server using it's API. The app is made by 'Andrew Dolgov' and hosted in GitHub. This is the app I use to read all my RSSs.
As I use it every day to read the news I wanted to spend some time trying to make it work better with the Nook Touch. So, I grabbed the sources this morning and the changes that I made so far are:
Changed API level to support Android 2.1 (Nook Touch)
Theme is light by default (black on white)
Various font sizes were changed to be bigger
Removed animations (that anyway didn't look nice in the Nook)
Added 'Page up' and 'Page down' buttons on article view (as scrolling is always a mess in the Nook)
Right now is a lot more usable, I'll do a few other changes if people over here are interested. Frankly, requiring a server (or a friends one that allows multiple users) I don't think many people will be using this but I just wanted to share this.
I also have another pending modifications for Aard Dictionary, an app that allows to have the entire Wikipedia offline (without images). That is, for me, a must. There are some problems with navigation and paging that I want to fix to be a lot mor usable on the Nook.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the developers/hackers on the forum for enabling the Nook Touch to do much more than it was intended to.
Cheers!
EDIT: Added a few screenshots

Thank you for your effort, even though it's not suitable to me it's great to see more tailored apps for the Nook Touch.
I am still on the look out for the perfect offline (full content) rss reader for the Nook.

Tell me if you find it
Tiny Tiny RSS Reader also has very nice offline support (retrieving even images) but, of course, you'll need the server side somewhere...
remlap said:
Thank you for your effort, even though it's not suitable to me it's great to see more tailored apps for the Nook Touch.
I am still on the look out for the perfect offline (full content) rss reader for the Nook.
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For now I am using ifttt.com to point my google reader feeds to Instapaper and read them on InstaFetch..

I tried to change some things for Nook compatibility in the current version (a trial-free repository of the app can be found here: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=tt-rss&fdid=org.fox.ttrss), but I keep getting errors I know nothing about, even when I made no changes.
This begs for an update, would be so great!

Did you fork the github repo? If so could yo share? I think we could probably move it to heroku and for a few users it would stay within the free limits.

After some trial and error I've installed TinyTiny on my raspberry pi locally, it would be great if I could get it to grab full rss but so far it seems to not want to cooperate.
Cheers

About updates
Hi Guys,
I wasn't paying attention here, I thought nobody needed/used TTRSSR app on the Nook.
I'll find the source code and move it to github. The fork I did was for a not-very-new version of the reader because it started requiring a bigger API level than the current Nook supports. I don't think is worth backporting all the new UI/features to the Nook considering there will be a lot of effort involved. However if I publish the code maybe I can get some other developers to hop in and see what happens.

[Q] Any new Nook tailored apps?

Just wondering if anyones found any new Nook tailored apps, I have only really found Cool Reader and Instafetch which both are tailored to Nook.

remlap said:
Just wondering if anyones found any new Nook tailored apps, I have only really found Cool Reader and Instafetch which both are tailored to Nook.
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AI Reader, which I've found to be substantively better than any other Nook reader out there - it has Eink specific features, makes us of side buttons and tap zones, and - my favorite feature - it does an actual page count in addition to the standard progress bar and has a header that tells you how many pages are in a particular chapter and what page you're on in that chapter. The only thing it lacks is a library, but, as with Cool Reader, you can set it to open books directly from Nook's built-in library.

Can you link to that app mate?

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Can you link to that app mate?
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Yeah, plus I misspelled it - it's AlReader - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neverland.alreader

mobamoba said:
Yeah, plus I misspelled it - it's AlReader - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neverland.alreader
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Gave it a try, if it wasn't for Cool Reader it probably be my default reader but it just isn't up to Cool Reader in my opinion.
Any others mate?
Thanks

remlap said:
Gave it a try, if it wasn't for Cool Reader it probably be my default reader but it just isn't up to Cool Reader in my opinion.
Any others mate?
Thanks
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Not really. I like it better than Cool Reader - the new version of Cool Reader screwed up all my fonts.

These apps look useful but I an searching for one that keeps track of reading statistics. Like time left in chapter and time left in book. It looks like Moon+ has this functionality but I do not see that it is compatible with Android 2.1, I have a simple touch. Any ideas?

Cool reader does some crazy stuff to the table of contents on some books.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=nook simple touch&c=apps

AlReader vs CoolReader - AlReader allows changing fonts size by pinching with two fingers (you just have to have a multitouch on you Nook), a lot of adjustment features, faster than Cool Reader - this is what came to mind at once, now I don't like to go back to Cool Reader after I've recently tried AlReader

A new reader app

There are any number of things that annoy me about the stock B&N reader.
I've been writing my own reader app from the ground up.
It's missing a lot of features, but it's still become my standard reader.
I have a lot of technical references in PDF.
At least my reader will allow me to see them in landscape mode fit to width.
The app has adjustable overscan to get rid of the paper margins.
For EPUBs, there are 17 font sizes, 30 margin sizes, 21 line spacings.
EPUBs or PDFs can be viewed in either orientation.
The app is eInk smart but runs on standard cell phones too.

I assume that you plan on making this app available to the community at some point. When you are ready for other users to test, I would be glad to volunteer.

Yes, as soon as I get rid of the worst bugs, I'll let this loose.
It doesn't have text search or word lookup or annotations or bookmarks.

From MY perspective, bookmarks would be priority #1, followed by dictionary look up. I have never used annotations or word search, though I am sure others have.
Just my $0.02. Other's opinions will vary.

From MY perspective, dictionary look up would be priority #1, and never bookmarks, as I am Russian speaking person. I have never used annotations or word search.
Just my $0.02. Good luck in your efforts.

I'm still working on this.
One of the things I found most lacking was good navigation on large PDFs.
It can get a bit hairy dealing with the table of contents on some PDFs.
Sometimes a page number is more specific than a TOC entry and sometimes it's the other way around.

Will you be supporting mobi files as well ?
It seems it's hard to find a nice reader that support both epub and mobi ...

No, it will not read MOBI.
MOBI is a really stupid format based on database files for Palm OS.
EPUB is a halfway reasonable format.
HTML based reflowable text and a table of contents.
What more do you need?
Of course, all the manufacturers (like Kindle) are pushing for whiz-bang HTML5 formats.

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No, it will not read MOBI.
MOBI is a really stupid format based on database files for Palm OS.
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1) I really liked Palm
just kidding, nostalgia kicked in
2) I already have some books in MOBI format, that's why I'm asking.
Yes, I know I can convert them to EPUB ...
Thanks!

Finally ready for a super pre-alpha preview.
Very short user manual:
Hit the right screen edge or PAGEDOWN for forward a whole page
Hit the left screen edge or PAGEUP for backward a whole page
Hit the top screen edge for the navigation menu
Hit the bottom screen edge for table of contents view
Hit the middle of the screen when viewing PDFs to go down a chunk of one page
(These 4 edges are actually the edges of the page view.
When the TOC is showing, the left edge will be somewhere in the middle of the screen.)
There are separate config dialogs for EPUB and PDF.
In TOC view, the +/- are indicators and not controls.
The app tries to keep everything as compact as possible.
TOC scrolls with a drag, selects with a push on a chapter title, dismisses with a bottom push in the page side.
You can call up navigate, page forwards and backwards while the TOC is showing.
A single empty square and the title indicates that the PDF has no TOC.
The eInk special handling only works with 1.2.1 software.
If you are using nofresh/fast refresh/whatever, then no guarantee nor interest in what it will do.
It may be self-delusion, but it seems to me that the text is clearer than the stock reader?
You can just install this as a regular app.
You can set it as default for EPUB or PDF separately.
Unless you're me, you shouldn't get rid of the stock reader just yet. :cyclops:
Hmm, I'm not sure if it will handle Last Reading Point correctly if you are using the stock library.
Oh! It will list all the fonts on your system, but it won't handle the fonts that the underlying library files don't like.

Renate NST said:
Unless you're me, you shouldn't get rid of the stock reader just yet. :cyclops:
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First problem: On my nook it didn't show up in adw so I can't run it

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On my nook it didn't show up in adw...
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Well, it wouldn't, would it?
The stock reader doesn't show up there either.
For an application to show up in a launcher its AndroidManifest.xml would have to have:
Code:
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
File viewers normally don't have that, they are invoked by other intents.
Use your "Last Read" icon, a library application or a file manager to open an EPUB or a PDF.

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Finally ready for a super pre-alpha preview.
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It may be self-delusion, but it seems to me that the text is clearer than the stock reader?
You can just install this as a regular app.
You can set it as default for EPUB or PDF separately.
Hmm, I'm not sure if it will handle Last Reading Point correctly if you are using the stock library.
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Think the text is clearer!
Doesn't remember the Last Reading Point for me but not using the stock library.
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Also, looses my place when the screen saver kicks in.

Thanks for the good work Renate. I think the display is better than other epub/pdf readers and maybe stock reader too. As most of my reading is done with my Glow version in bed, a "Night Mode" switch for white font on black background would be great if possible?
Thanks again.

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Also, loses my place when the screen saver kicks in.
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Yes, the integration between a reader app and a library app is close.
Tracking of last point is usually done in the library app.
I was planning on adding a single LRP directly in the reader for files that aren't tracked in the library.

Is it possible to run this on an Android 2.3.4 installation or its code assumes a Nook?
The reason I ask, is because I have a Kobo Glo with android installed, and I would like to check it there, if it is e-Ink optimized.

The problem with supporting eInk is that the interface classes in Java are all different.
Even in the Nook 1.1, 1.1.5. 1.3 are incompatible with 1.2.1
(Notice that the latest 1.3 on the white Nook uses an older scheme than the 1.2.1)
They all use android.hardware.EpdController in /system/framework/framework.jar
I have no idea what the Kobo is using.
I can guarantee that the application posted above will do no special eInk handling as it checks the system build fingerprint for compatibility.
If you are using Nook 1.1.5 or 1.3 it will also not do any special eInk handling.
The application should work on any device if you copy over these two library files:
/system/lib/libpdfhost.so
/system/lib/libbndeviceinfo.so
I have this app running on my (old) Kyocera Rise (cell phone).
It should run (without any special eInk handling) on your Kobo.
Anything further would require research and programming.

Renate NST said:
Hmm, I'm not sure if it will handle Last Reading Point correctly if you are using the stock library.
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It does not handle Last Reading Point correctly when using the stock library.
Great work! I used this for all of 10 minutes and the potential is evident. With some more of your excellent development work you will have a real winner on your hands.
Question, as this obviously will not read books with B&N DRM, is there some way to make this reader the default when using your library app and allow the stock reader to be the default when using the stock library? Perhaps a setting in your library app to use either the "device default" (stock or other) reader or Temblast Reader specifically when a book is selected.
With regard to the text being clearer than the stock reader, I don't notice a difference. However, I am using the Tweaked Modded ROM, which states:
"Forced all rendering to be done on the GPU." I noticed the text was darker using this ROM when I first installed it. Perhaps your reader essentially does the same thing? This might account for the those who notice the text being clearer when using your reader.

David0226 said:
"Forced all rendering to be done on the GPU."
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Interesting, that's not what I explicitly did, but maybe it's effectively what I did.

Font display doesn't seem as good as stock reader upon closer inspection.
For PDF reader I still use two particular versions of Repligo and ezPDF-Reader both: fast, full of options and pinch in-out for zoom on txt/image based files and more, opening all pdfs.
The epub reader is suffering on some files with wrapping longer lines so I get remainder lines with two or three words, unless fonts are much smaller even with little margins so back to AlReader and FBReader I'm afraid.