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Android alternative to 'alreader' 2 on WM?

Alreader 2 is a nice ebook, doc, txt, etc reader for WM.
It has nice features like font/line sizing/spacing, memorizing last page read for any document, tap up/down to change page, full screen, etc. There's probably more features but those are the ones I use most.
Is there anything like it for Android? (I'm using HTC HD2 and since Android also runs on it... )
edit: Please move if this should be in the App/Games forum. (I just noticed it.)

I think the best is iReader. http://ireader.over-blog.com/pages/About_iReader-1955734.html
I've tried fbreader, aldiko, wordplayer and a few others. With the exception of iSilo and iReader, all were slow when opening an ebook, especially when the ebook is a few MB large. And its worse when they dun support txt, conversion to epub etc with Calibre or the online sites takes decades and often hangs with big files.
But iReader reads txt, pdb, chm, html, etc, and has no problems displaying other languages if you save your txt file in unicode. And when installed on my Samsung Galaxy S, it opens even 10+ MB .txt files faster than Alreader 2 on my HTC Touch HD can open a 6+ MB doc file. Similarly as Alreader, iReader can jump several thousand pages without more than 1-2 sec lag. Changing font size is fast too, apparently no repagination time needed at all.
And best of all it follows the same file opening procedure as Alreader, no crap with updating libraries, bookshelves, book cover displays etc which frankly is much more trouble than is worth.
Conclusion, bookreaders coded by russians and chinese are much more practical for actual heavy duty use. I've used tequilacat on java phones, alreader on WM phones, and now I'm gonna stick to iReader for Android

crandf said:
Conclusion, bookreaders coded by russians and chinese are much more practical for actual heavy duty use. I've used tequilacat on java phones, alreader on WM phones, and now I'm gonna stick to iReader for Android
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Interesting. I'm pretty sure that the readers I ended up using on both Palm and WM were Russian in origin. Although, I can't remember the name of either. Gonna go check-out this one. Been using FBReader. Pretty good. But, the slow library opening is a real pain.

For heaven's sake: a GOOD PDF Reader!

Dear All
Is there a good PDF reader for Android? I have tried almost all available, and they all seem to have one deficiency or another. Some cannot reflow text, some don't remember their settings, some are fiddly and slow, the clown prince of them all being Adobe Reader.
One thing they ALL are missing is an ability to place bookmarks. See, I'd like to read some PDF books on my Desire but I haven't found one which enables me to place a bookmark.
Any help?

I totally agree. And those reader that do exist do not get any updates - as if they were sufficient.

have you tried Repligo PDF reader.........better than beam reader ( a good 2nd choice)

ThinkFree Office that came preloaded on my Vibrant seems to do it all just fine for me on PDFs.

+1 for RepliGo.
It does not support bookmarks but it remembers when you stopped reading. I've also tried tons of PDF readers and RepliGo seems like the best option.

repligo is great, the fastest at rendering a page out there, and i've tried them all

The real problem isn't the reader software, it's with the PDF format. It was never designed to be "portable". It was designed to represent a PRINTED page, and as such features such as text reflow are not even possible with some PDF's which are essentially image files. Even when it is possible, so much fluff behind the scenes formatting-wise makes reflowed text difficult to render correctly, as images often lose their relevance.
Fact is, PDF is a HORRIBLE format for mobile devices at the very base, it is nothing like HTML or CSS which is designed to be screen/device agnostic to some extent. The best readers can do is try.

PDF reader with 2-Up

Has anyone found a PDF reader that supports 2-up so that 2 pages can be displayed together as you can in the full pc/mac versions?
I have PDF's that have 2 page spread photographs or diagrams that need to be seen a spread to be viewed properly. I think it would be a more viable option for the tab with it's bigger screen and resolution.I understand the text would be probably be unreadable but I would switch back to single view for reading.
I have tried a few of the main crop of PDF readers and have so far found none that support it.

Im looking for the exact same thing! any ideas? thanks

I think that Perfect Viewer from RookieSttudio Can doo that with plugn for PDF

yeah, it really does work, but it crashes very often and its slow... so any other recommendations are welcome!
In what pdf viewer do you guys read magazines? I really miss seeing 2 pages at once!

[Q] One great Android ebook reader app...someone, please??

I would really like to find a great ePub reader app and wondered if anyone here might know of one I haven't found, or have the skills to build one that will beat all the competition by including what I'll explain below.
As an author, I am very conscious of how books will look when read using different eReaders and different reader apps (FBReader, Aldiko, Laputa, etc.). There are two major issues I see so far with how the current stock of apps display the text content, and how they display images inside ebooks. Other than the iPad, I haven't found a single Android app that does both in a way that works for me (and I'm not sure even the iPad does it perfectly yet).
On text/content handling-- it boils down to whether the app actually uses the internal style that the author or publisher designed, meaning, does it read and use the .css stylesheet correctly or does it ignore it for the most part. In my case, the book looks perfect in ADE and Calibre on my laptop, meaning it displays exactly as it should look based on xhtml and the internal stylesheet. It also looks perfect on Aldiko both on my EVO and my rooted Nook color. But other than Aldiko, I have not seen one other app that correctly displays the book based on the styles and formatting stipulated in the .css file. Maybe the developers didn't think it mattered, or didn't know how to do it, but the .css file is part of the ePub standard.
As for image display--the iPad allows a double-tap to pop the picture off the page and view it enlarged (though I don't think you can pinch-to-zoom even then). The other day I was told the the latest version of FBReader for Android now lets you 'long-press' on a picture to optionally see a full-screen version of it in their image viewer (also excellent, though you still can't pinch-to-zoom on that larger image either). No other reader app I've found--even Aldiko--has the tap or press functionality to see a larger version of an embedded picture. So far I've had to do hyperlinks from the text to a larger version, or have thumbnails in the text linked to the larger picture, though still no pinch-to-zoom.
(Fwiw, the zoom function is a capability of the hardware apparently. On my EVO the internal viewer allows that--but the ES Image Viewer does not..so maybe it has to be built into the app. Pictures on an ePub book page are apparently limited by the page size unless you can view them separately, but getting them displayed with a viewer that also allows pinch-to-zoom hasn't been done yet I guess.)
So, not to drag this out any further, does anyone know of an existing reader app, or a new one under development, that has it all? I'd even donate some money if someone here wanted to look into making a reader app that combines the Aldiko stylesheet capability with the FBReader 'long-press' image view capability.
Personally, I have illustrations and pictures that need to be seen full-screen (better yet, zoomed to see the detail) so the image handling issue is a huge deal for me. The text handling using the .css stylesheet is for reading esthetics so that indentation, quotes, text and paragraph alignment and spacing, look good, as they would in a typical book--not all jammed together in the same size with no differentiation from one section to the next.
Any help, information, or ideas, will be appreciated. Thanks.
-JTT

Don't know if it will do it, but I have tried both Laputa and i think it was moon+ reader, they might do what you are looking for

With all due respect, I don't have time to read such a long post however Moon+ is pretty excellent

I'll try not to write as long a post next time since some people don't have time to read before they reply, though if they'd read the initial post they would have realized their response was pointless. But I'll let it slide and just say that Moon+ is very nice (I already have it) and I especially like the way it displays the Table of Contents. Unfortunately, it also ignores the .css file and style specifications, which is what was being explained in the long post...if you'd taken the time to read it.

Pickx said:
With all due respect, I don't have time to read such a long post however Moon+ is pretty excellent
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I actually use Laputa for most of my reading, which is a vote for that app, though I do have Moon+ as well since I've been testing all the reader apps I could find. But neither Laputa or Moon+ seem to use the .css styles when displaying the book content like Aldiko does, and neither allows any functionality to tap or press to enlarge images like FBReader does. So back to square one...but thanks for mentioning them.

This is more of a "non-answer" to your question.
I've read your entire post and I actually like your idea. So my idea is just to send your suggestion to the devs of the ePub reader (I use Moon+). They'll probably answer and give you an idea if they plan to implement the feature or what's holding them back from doing so.

Have you tried to write to Cool Reader's application (which supports epub also) author?

I dont know if when you posted this fbreader would ignore css, but i installed it today and it has CSS settings (txt alignment and font size only) plus the image tap to view

Desktop PDF reader for WinRT (SumatraPDF)

Since I can't seem to post this in the correct place (Windows 8 > Windows 8 Development & Hacking on one of the jailbroken RT app threads):
SumatraPDF 2.2.1 - look it up on Wikipedia or Google since I also can't post links...
This is a reasonably capable PDF reader. (Also, from my use of it today, it's certainly more friendly t- o touch than Foxit Reader is on a touch-capable Win8 Pro system.) It also appears to support many other formats - I tried an ePub with it and that also worked well.
I had to make a few minor patches to the source in places (expectations of x86/x64 in a few libraries), and replace the bundled JPEG library to get it to build. I'm assuming printing support will work, but I haven't had reason to test that.
A few visual anomalies seem to exist, but they also seem to be pretty minor. (The toolbar doesn't render quite right, which looks like broken icon references.)
I've attached the binary; contact me and I'll send the link to the source.
Chris

Do you know a good open source PDF editor for Windows? I am not saying you have to compile it to ARM, I can take a look at it myself
SumatraPDF is only a reader as you said.
I need to annotate PDFs and fill out forms. One app at the store does this to some extent, but it's kind of limited.

Thanks for the port; it's added to the list!
@someniceguy: You can actually ue Word 2013 to edit PDFs. If you just need annotation and form filling, though, those can be done with the built-in PDF reader (the Metro-style one). Note that annotation requires a stylus, though, so not available on Surface RT.

First of all, thanks for the info.
GoodDayToDie said:
@someniceguy: You can actually ue Word 2013 to edit PDFs.
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It asks me to convert the PDF to a Word document first. That's a deal break for me.
GoodDayToDie said:
If you just need annotation and form filling, though, those can be done with the built-in PDF reader (the Metro-style one).
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I can use Reader to make basic annotations such as highlighting with a given color and adding notes. Nothing else, it seems. It's a very limited program.
The only semi decent program I found is PDF Touch, but it too has limitations. For example, it gives you a very limited selection of colors for highlighting. And it does not support all types of annotations (or I could not see them), such as adding notes. The worse of it, though, is that it does not show the table of contents of the PDF, and I could not find any way to search inside the PDF.
Use ezPDF (Android) for a brief time and you realize Store Apps for PDF handling are from the stone ages.
Again, thanks for the suggestions, but still looking for that open source advanced program for PDF manipulation.

The progromm is a little bit ugly but works realy fine ! even faster then the mtro app

Yeah, it doesn't take too much to beat the speed of the Reader app. Of course, I was interested in using it with big PDFs - on average, 300 pages, mostly D&D books actually, which left me wanting a program that responded in a timely manner, and would allow me to have multiple files open at the same time, since I'm usually using them as reference material while playing... Reader blew chunks for that on an i5-480m @ 2.66, so there wasn't a chance it would do better on a far wimpier processor...

Has the developer integrated GPU rendering yet? I know he previously complained about the cost/reward ratio. Without it, though, Sumatra really lags all other readers on scanned (old) PDFs or complex ones.

Merconium said:
Has the developer integrated GPU rendering yet? I know he previously complained about the cost/reward ratio. Without it, though, Sumatra really lags all other readers on scanned (old) PDFs or complex ones.
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Didn't look like it had any Direct2D dependencies or other such things in it. I also ended up potentially slowing it down a bit by replacing libjpeg-turbo with the original libjpeg, which had it's own gcc dependencies.
On the other hand, at least for the purposes that I wanted a PDF reader for - multiple files open at once, easy access to bookmarks, decently quick rendering - it seems to be good enough. The rendering speed isn't great, but it's better than Reader, which is the other reader I tried before building this one.

The version of SumatraPDF posted here did not work for me. I got the error message "SumatraPDF crashed Sorry, that shouldn't have happened!".
However, this version worked for me. https://github.com/plumeqi/RT_Arm32_Porting/tree/main/SumatraPDF3.3.3/Bin
Now I can read PDF as well as DjVu and ePubs on my Surface RT.

apandada1 said:
The version of SumatraPDF posted here did not work for me. I got the error message "SumatraPDF crashed Sorry, that shouldn't have happened!".
However, this version worked for me. https://github.com/plumeqi/RT_Arm32_Porting/tree/main/SumatraPDF3.3.3/Bin
Now I can read PDF as well as DjVu and ePubs on my Surface RT.
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Thank you, bro. I can use it now in 2022.