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[Q] How to import epub books into the Reader app?

There was a thread about this a while back, but now I have my DHD, it is mysteriously missing..
If I remember, the developer worked out that all you needed to do was put the files in a particular directory, then it would import them automatically.
Can anyone help?
What is the directory? Do I have to do anything else? Does it need to be rooted first?
Thanks for guidance..

graculusthegreenbird said:
There was a thread about this a while back, but now I have my DHD, it is mysteriously missing..
If I remember, the developer worked out that all you needed to do was put the files in a particular directory, then it would import them automatically.
Can anyone help?
What is the directory? Do I have to do anything else? Does it need to be rooted first?
Thanks for guidance..
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No root
directory is: sdcard/Digital Edition
digital edition if there is no need to create
reboot
my en is bad

Awesome, thanks so much!
I had a .adobe-digital-editions directory on the SD Card already.
But I needed to creating a "Digital Editions" directory on the SD Card, then it worked fine. Note that it is "Digital Editions" and not "Digital Edition".
Thanks again!

graculusthegreenbird said:
Note that it is "Digital Editions" and not "Digital Edition".
Thanks again!
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good Thank

So, let's say we have bought a new Micro-SD card and it's blank. We will need to use a spesific folder on the root as "igital Editions" and put epub files into it so that we can do what?
Does not it have Android an apps to read epub files directly from SD no matter in which folder they are?

The reader application looks for a folder named 'Digital Editions', this is a leftover from Adobe software that Mac, Linux, Kobo and HTC use.

I use FBreader and tell it which folder my epub files are in.

This is specifically a question about importing the epub files so that they can be used in the built in HTC Reader app. Once you put the files in that SD Card/Digital Editions and reboot, then you can see them in that app.
That is the only way to get your own files working.
If you want to use Aldiko, FB Reader, Laputa etc then that is a different issue, they all have different methods of reading epubs, some easier, some harder. But none of them have the gloss and polish of selection of the built in reader app!
The cover flow is just awesome...

graculusthegreenbird said:
This is specifically a question about importing the epub files so that they can be used in the built in HTC Reader app. Once you put the files in that SD Card/Digital Editions and reboot, then you can see them in that app.
That is the only way to get your own files working.
If you want to use Aldiko, FB Reader, Laputa etc then that is a different issue, they all have different methods of reading epubs, some easier, some harder. But none of them have the gloss and polish of selection of the built in reader app!
The cover flow is just awesome...
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I have to admit, the HTC reader app is pretty sweet. Do you know if it handles any other formats, like mobi?

graculusthegreenbird said:
But none of them have the gloss and polish of selection of the built in reader app!
The cover flow is just awesome...
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So true! And so strange. I love Aldiko but it always seems very slow, and its default app icon is absolutely hideous.

No it cannot hadle mobi files, install the kinde app for that copy the mobi files in the kindle folder on your sd card

Got adobe reader to work but..

has anyone figured out how to open ebooks in it?

You need your ebooks (pdf) to be on your SD card I believe on the top level directory. I usually just find mine in Astro and it'll ask if you want to use Adobe to open them then it'll save them as documents you've opened.

Hypntick said:
You need your ebooks (pdf) to be on your SD card I believe on the top level directory. I usually just find mine in Astro and it'll ask if you want to use Adobe to open them then it'll save them as documents you've opened.
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Thanks, I just need to find a current version of ASTRO.

Aight, i have adobe reader 10. it does everything i need but can't find the reflow option (make fonts bigger). I dont want to have to downgrade to 9. too slow and choppy. Any help?

So far, the best pdf reader I have found is ezPDF. I use it on my Archos tablet. Has anyone tried this on the NC?.

Withfeeling said:
So far, the best pdf reader I have found is ezPDF. I use it on my Archos tablet. Has anyone tried this on the NC?.
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Works w/ bugs. Getting Special Characters on screen, making the book un readable at times.

ezPDF, Adobe, RepliGo.
Since I bought it as a reader, first thing I did was check a bunch of pdf reading apps. From experience RepliGo works, Adobe works, and ezPDF works. The best of the three is ezPDF, but you need an SD card for the cache. The next best is Adobe.
I don't think any of them have an open feature that allows you to browse for the file you want to open, so they all require a file manager. Adobe and ezPDF both have a recent feature that remembers what pdfs you have opened recently, so that kinda helps.

Could anyone comment on the native PDF app? Does it work in landscape mode? And how well do panning and zooming work? I know in the original nook that zooming didn't really work, but it looks like reviews of the NC say that PDF handling is much better.
I've got a whole of math class notes as PDFs, and trying to reflow on those would be a pretty epic failure.
Thanks in advance!

sin7 said:
Since I bought it as a reader, first thing I did was check a bunch of pdf reading apps. From experience RepliGo works, Adobe works, and ezPDF works. The best of the three is ezPDF, but you need an SD card for the cache. The next best is Adobe.
I don't think any of them have an open feature that allows you to browse for the file you want to open, so they all require a file manager. Adobe and ezPDF both have a recent feature that remembers what pdfs you have opened recently, so that kinda helps.
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What do you mean i need an sd card for cache? Will that fix the problems with the special characters? if so, can i just sotore the pdf on the card and u can view it normally, without those secial characters coming up?

vmarcano718 said:
What do you mean i need an sd card for cache? Will that fix the problems with the special characters? if so, can i just sotore the pdf on the card and u can view it normally, without those secial characters coming up?
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Perhaps, I am wrong, but I could not get ezPDF to work without an SD card. ezPDF creates a folder on the SD card where it keeps information on the opened pdfs, configurations and settings. It also has a temp folder which I just assumed to be for memory purposes.
I have tried many pdfs and they look no different than on a computer, save for the occasional LN, which stands for a link. Those special characters don't really interfere with anything since they reside at the bottom.
peiziyu said:
Could anyone comment on the native PDF app? Does it work in landscape mode? And how well do panning and zooming work? I know in the original nook that zooming didn't really work, but it looks like reviews of the NC say that PDF handling is much better.
I've got a whole of math class notes as PDFs, and trying to reflow on those would be a pretty epic failure.
Thanks in advance!
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The native PDF is QuickOffice. There a few things that bother me about it. One, there are certain formats that it does not like for pdfs and will just display a giant x. Two, it does not save the page where you left off. Three, to switch the page, you must swipe down to up as opposed to right to left or tapping the right side. Four, it does not have an indicator to display whether the page is loading or completely loaded. I sometimes find myself waiting on blank pages to do something. Or used to, since I use ezPDF which has an indicator and fixes all the mentioned problems.
To answer your questions about the native app: It works in landscape. You can fit the pdf to width or zoom in and out by using the pinch gesture or tapping the (- +) that shows up on screen. The pdf handling is much much better. The native app does not give you many options, so text reflow is out of the question, which I presume is not a bad thing in your case.

vmarcano718 said:
What do you mean i need an sd card for cache? Will that fix the problems with the special characters? if so, can i just sotore the pdf on the card and u can view it normally, without those secial characters coming up?
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Perhaps, I am wrong, but I could not get ezPDF to work without an SD card.
I have tried many pdfs and they look no different than on a computer, save for the occasional LN, which stands for a link. Those special characters don't really interfere with anything since they reside at the bottom.
peiziyu said:
Could anyone comment on the native PDF app? Does it work in landscape mode? And how well do panning and zooming work? I know in the original nook that zooming didn't really work, but it looks like reviews of the NC say that PDF handling is much better.
I've got a whole of math class notes as PDFs, and trying to reflow on those would be a pretty epic failure.
Thanks in advance!
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The native PDF is QuickOffice. There a few things that bother me about it. One, there are certain formats that it does not like for pdfs and will just display a giant x. Two, it does not save the page where you left off. Three, to switch the page, you must swipe down to up as opposed to right to left or tapping the right side. Four, it does not have an indicator to display whether the page is loading or completely loaded. I sometimes find myself waiting on blank pages to do something. Or used to, since I use ezPDF which has an indicator and fixes all the mentioned problems.
To answer your questions about the native app: It works in landscape. You can fit the pdf to width or zoom in and out by using the pinch gesture or tapping the (- +) that shows up on screen. The pdf handling is much much better. The native app does not give you many options, so text reflow is out of the question, which I presume is not a bad thing in your case.

+1 for ezPDF with an SDcard.
Night mode with reflow is great, but I have problems tapping the bookmark button successfully.

Maybe my version of ezPDF is different than yours. I am running it on an Archos 101, not an NC. I am here because I am looking for a smaller tablet and deciding between the Archos 70 and the NC.
My ezPDF has a tab across the top that allows me to select either "recently viewed PDFs" or "all PDFs". The "all PDFs" tab lists directories and can expand the directories individually to select PDF files.
In my experience, ezPDF is way better than Adobe's reader for Android. Adobe's works pretty well, but is pretty basic. There are many, many features in ezPDF that are not in Adobe's.
OTOH, from what I have read in this and the B&N forums, the built-in QuickOffice PDF reader is less than basic. It has no reflow, for example, which I think is required for this type of device. It also seems to not support some common image types or compressions, or at-least folks are reporting pages with red x's across them. The feature set has been reduced from what QuickOffice offers in the actual product.

I find ezpdf to be too slow when it comes to going to the next page.
The stock reader works in landscape but I can not get it to remember where I left off.
I'm still looking for one I like. I wish there was an Android version of Annotate. That's my favorite on the Ipad.

I agree it is slow, but I can't read that fast. For me, the page scroll at the bottom more than compensates for that. The 101 is a bit faster than the NC (1GHz vs 800MHz), but I consider ezPDF so superior that I won't look back.
I assume you mean iAnnotate, and yes, I agree.

sin7, thanks for answering my questions about QuickOffice. That actually sounds like it should work for my needs pretty conveniently, since I'm using it for math references which don't necessarily need to stay on the same page.
I've seen a few people in other threads mention that vudroid works nicely for PDFs on NC once you've installed the softkeys app. Mine is still in the mail, so no personal experience, but that might help some of you still looking for the best app?

Could somebody stick up Adobe Reader 10 apk somewhere? I'm having the devil of a time tracking it down, and I cant seem to find the damned APK file on my phone to pull it off...
Thanks.
- Will.

You can search for the Adobe Reader on freewarelovers.com.
For some reason 10.0 is listed as an old version apk, but you can still download it.

Reader not option for text files after MN

Hi. I used MN on a stock1.4.1. Used to click on txt ebooks and it would be opened by Reader, but now it just gives me some apps to choose of which Reader is not an option. I of course loaded Cool Reader from Market, but I would still prefer it just to open with Reader for my kids sake (simplicity best at their young age ). Any ideas???

j1hnm1y said:
Hi. I used MN on a stock1.4.1. Used to click on txt ebooks and it would be opened by Reader, but now it just gives me some apps to choose of which Reader is not an option. I of course loaded Cool Reader from Market, but I would still prefer it just to open with Reader for my kids sake (simplicity best at their young age ). Any ideas???
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The factory firmware actually uses Quickoffice Lite to handle txt formatted books. When you click on the txt ebook, check the box next to “Use by default for this action,” and then select “Quickoffice Lite.”

The best reader app for Nook

Under "the best" i mean the reader with the least memory usage...
What is your experience ?

gsms said:
Under "the best" i mean the reader with the least memory usage...
What is your experience ?
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Yes, but do you mean the size of the apk itself, the running RAM overhead, etc.?
If I had to guess I would suppose it was the resident reader designed for the device. Readers with more capabilities and bells and whistles would most likely consume more resources. I've only used the resident reader and the Kindle app and find them both about the same as far as performance (maybe the Kindle is a little sluggish on page changes and the text seems sort of spidery). I tried Cool Reader once but it just had way too many options for me to even want to think about.

I agree with you. Resident reader in Nook is very good one.
It has (probably) only one disadvantage.
When i end (discontinue) reading of a book, i cannot turn off the app.
It hasn't "exit" function and continue to run in memory listing...

I personally use the modified version of Cool Reader mentioned here. This version of Cool Reader at least has an "Exit" option in multiple places. I use this on my Nook Glowlight Plus. I have yet to try it on my old Simple Touches, but perhaps I will try that today. If I do, I will report back on my success (or failure).
UPDATE: The version of Cool Reader linked to in this post will not install on a Nook Simple Touch or Simple Touch with Glowlight. Apparently it requires a higher version of Android.
I do switch back to the resident (stock) reader for large books, like Bibles or collections. Cool Reader is much too slow when reading book over 1500 "pages" or with very many notes (links) in the text. I am not sure if this is because of the amount of memory it takes up, or because of how it handles links.

I tried to re-configure ReaderRMSDK.apk, using mergesmali, provided by RenateNST and these instruments from her page :
/system/app/ReaderRMSDK.apk
ReaderMainView.smali – dictionary lookup of word
ReaderActivity.smali – allow back key on reader
Products.smali ‐ allows "More" button to work with any book
ReaderCommonUIConstants.smali – sensible font sizes
After this i created new key for the app, using keytool and signed it. At the end did 'zipalign'.
Everthing was successfully, but when trying to "install -r the newReaderRMSDK" thru adb, i receive error message
[install parse failed, unexpected extension]
rm for -f failed, read-only file system...
What is the reason?
Any opinions ?
Did anyone modified ReaderRMSDK, using Renate's tools ?

Someone did modified ReaderRMSDK.apk using the tools, provided by RenateNST ?
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ReaderMainView.smali – dictionary lookup of word
ReaderActivity.smali – allow back key on reader
Products.smali ‐ allows "More" button to work with any book
ReaderCommonUIConstants.smali – sensible font sizes

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Whats the lowest RAM consuming ROM for tenderloin?

Hey guys, i've been around for a while, but my touchpad have been dumped on the back of a shelf. I decided this week to give it a update and have been looking through the ROM's for it over XDA. So, i've recently cleaned it up with the TPToolbox and installed the latest ROM avaiable with the most recent Android version, which is Evervolv 7 with Android 7.1.
What i have noticed is that this version has at least 240mb of RAM footprint by Android system. Also, i've been going thru a lot of force closes and random system reboots in Just 1 Day from clean install.
I was wondering if anybody can suggest me a ROM that:
1- Runs smoothly on the touchpad;
2- Have a small RAM footprint by the system;
3- Is well known for not having random reboots;
4- Got at least Android 5.0;
5- Have minimal Bluetooth compatibility (can use some Kind of BT speaker);
6- Can be used on a daily basis to read and edit some documents.
In the meanwhile i'll be looking after other ROM's, testing them out for a day or two and put some info here.
Btw, the reason for looking for a low consuming RAM ROM is because i want to open 3 Chrome tabs without closing Adobe reader on the background.
Thanks

stay with android 7.0 because even if you go back to android 5.0 the ram power is still the same

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Btw, the reason for looking for a low consuming RAM ROM is because i want to open 3 Chrome tabs without closing Adobe reader on the background.
Thanks
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You might want to look for an alternative to Adobe Reader. My experience is that it is one heck of a memory hog - as with all things adobe...
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middle_road said:
You might want to look for an alternative to Adobe Reader. My experience is that it is one heck of a memory hog - as with all things adobe...
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Ya I found the same thing, I'm using Xodo PDF here. Better viewing experience than Adobe reader, what are you using?

RolandDeschain79 said:
Ya I found the same thing, I'm using Xodo PDF here. Better viewing experience than Adobe reader, what are you using?
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There's been (3) of late, FBReader, Google PDF Viewer, and Drive PDF Viewer.
Drive PDF viewer seems to show up after installing 'Drive' on some. Not quite sure why Google would have two different viewers...
Now if I had to Edit PDF files, I"m not sure what I would use.
I was staring at one of my dead system boards today, wishing there was a way to plant some extra RAM on them.
If but only...

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There's been (3) of late, FBReader, Google PDF Viewer, and Drive PDF Viewer.
Drive PDF viewer seems to show up after installing 'Drive' on some. Not quite sure why Google would have two different viewers...
Now if I had to Edit PDF files, I"m not sure what I would use.
I was staring at one of my dead system boards today, wishing there was a way to plant some extra RAM on them.
If but only...
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Lol if only we could expand the RAM, double would be nice:fingers-crossed: Thanks for the PDF suggestions I'm liking the FBReader. Strange that google has two different viewers maybe one is an addon on for the other, since it only shows once its installed. Going to check that one out next:good:

I use wps office which do word;excel,powerpoint and read pdf