I interested in getting a Tab and my primary use for it will be reading documents and books. What are the best apps for the following formats:
PDF
epub
cbr/cbz
chm
djvu
I have tried quite a few of the free ones and so far they all suck for one reason or another.
If there is a good pay one, I would not be averse to giving it the ol' 24 hour test.
Tab comes with think free office app. Best pdf reader on android. For comics/cbr/zip use acv (android comic viewer). For books, kindle, nook, aldiko, there are loads
For ebooks, I really like fbreader. kindle and nook have really big fonts that I can't seem to shrink enough. fbreader doesn't have a store, but it can access calibre if you have it set up for opds.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'm looking into them. One format I forgot to mention is HTML. Is it better to convert that to a different format or search for a reader (or browser) for it?
I use ezpdf for my ebook reading. My current favourate with auto crop feature.
Ita difficult finding a good pdf reader. anyone tried good reader on the ipad? its a great pdf manager. Im going to email them to see if they are working on an android version. Adobe reader is good but slow. Others just feel cheap.
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I work for a large newspaper company in the UK so I have access to hundreds of papers in PDF format, each day I grab my local one which is usually over 40 pages and around 120Mb in size.
The ONLY app which doesn't crash at the size of the PDF is the free office app that came with the Tab, pinch zoom or double tapping is quick & smooth and moving from one page to the next is seamless
the Adobe app never even opens the first page!
I use the built-in ebook reader, and could bend it to my will, also it supports epub
With a well setup calibre adding new books is easy as 1-2-3
ayman07 said:
Ita difficult finding a good pdf reader. anyone tried good reader on the ipad? its a great pdf manager. Im going to email them to see if they are working on an android version. Adobe reader is good but slow. Others just feel cheap.
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gnick666 said:
I use the built-in ebook reader, and could bend it to my will, also it supports epub
With a well setup calibre adding new books is easy as 1-2-3
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Exactly, the ThinkFree office pdf reader is teh BEST pdf reader on android. It renders pages with no lag, ayman you can't have tried this if you think its not adequate, try it.
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I use the built-in ebook reader, and could bend it to my will, also it supports epub
With a well setup calibre adding new books is easy as 1-2-3
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Can you post the ereader apk? Upgrading my firmware deleted it...
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mmace said:
I work for a large newspaper company in the UK so I have access to hundreds of papers in PDF format, each day I grab my local one which is usually over 40 pages and around 120Mb in size.
The ONLY app which doesn't crash at the size of the PDF is the free office app that came with the Tab, pinch zoom or double tapping is quick & smooth and moving from one page to the next is seamless
the Adobe app never even opens the first page!
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Have you tried ezPDF ? It works brilliantly on my Tab, it is great for reading technical documents in column mode (with double-tap gestures, pinch/stretch zoom, and horizontal scroll lock). The text-flow view is pretty handy too. It is fast, regularly updated...well worth the purchase
for ebook reading, i use aldiko. its on the market.
I use think free apps and Adobe pdf reader. Adobe pdf reader for android is free from the market.
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For PDFs, ezPDF has by far the best features.
It remembers the page, it remembers the zoom, and it even can auto-zoom into columns and jump to the next column. It also can lock the horizontal position.
Unfortunately it does not have the best rendering quality, text does not look as sharp as with adobe's reader.
Adobe's is fine with the best rendering quality but still lacks features. Not even remembering the page-number is fully implemented.
thinkoffice is just a basic fast pdf-viewer that can not even keep the zoom-level.
Bloody sick of Thinkfree Office - it doesn't remember the zoom level across the document! I need to double tap repeatedly for each page to make the document zoom to page width. Going to try EZ PDF and sees how it turns out.
Ezpdf is the best android PDF reader period..
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Another vote for ezpdf. They recently added annotation tools launching this pdf viewer back to the top of the stack for me.
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roy8846 said:
Ezpdf is the best android PDF reader period..
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le3ky said:
Exactly, the ThinkFree office pdf reader is teh BEST pdf reader on android. It renders pages with no lag, ayman you can't have tried this if you think its not adequate, try it.
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Ahh.. thanks for the tip, just tried out ThinkFree for PDF, never thought of it before. Works great with no lag! Was previously using Aldiko for PDFs and while they opened fine it was really laggy.
Hi!
I play music, so i decided to scan all of my sheet music on my infinity. I need to find an app to scroll on a pdf using the "scroll wheel" on an external mouse. The scroll wheel works on browsers/settings, but i cannot find a pdf app that supports it. Any ideas/ app suggestions?
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Wow - I can't believe that I never realized that you couldn't do this with 99% of the PDF viewers!
I did find one app that it does work in, but it's not a dedicated PDF viewer - it's Polaris Office, which also allows for viewing and editing of MS Office documents. Unfortunately, it's not free (at least I don't think it is - I already had it installed, so I'm not sure)...
So far, that's the only app that I can find that allows you to scroll using the mouse wheel in PDF documents! Very strange, especially since, as you've stated, scrolling with the wheel works everywhere else...
I did download and try a bunch of other PDF viewers and haven't been able to find a PDF-specific app that it works in - I have no idea why that is...
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okay thanks! i will try that app and confirm that it works.
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Ebookdroid is excellent. Just change the mouse scroll settings from %5 to say %20 or whatever you see fit.
Regards.
I love the kindle for this feature but jave mobi books on my kindle and have wondered how i would dump their highlights to a text file. Are there any mobile pdf and mobi/azw readers that allow you to do this?
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Hi All ,
i am doing a trip and i want to find an APP or Program I can use to create a interaction travel book.
I want to add photos , videos , text and hyperlinks so user can download the book and
navigate around in it.
I am aware of open office but I really want a drag and drop interface to save time.
The book can be ebook , pdf , html.
Any suggestions pleas?
An Android app that plays video and shows images, possibly in-line, and has the ability to link to URLs?
Sounds like you want a blog tbh.
Creating one is real simple
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Thanks for the reply. Can a blod be downloaded and distributed on computers and tablets?
Not the embedded part of the blog, like if you're embedding YouTube videos and stuff in it.
You can save the website for offline viewing though, text, pictures.
I guess my point was that I'd you had internet for YouTube, having the other stuff online wouldn't be a problem either
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Just received P900 and left Google to restore apps. Sadly kindle app crashes very time on startup. Tried removing it and any associated files and installed again from play store but still failing. P900 is running Samsung standard image for 4.4.2
Anyone else running kindle app ok?
Was looking forward to reading some photography books on this large tablet rather than my laptop.
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I do have occasional crashes on startup but otherwise it works fine. I am sure you will get it running one way or another.
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I do have occasional crashes on startup but otherwise it works fine. I am sure you will get it running one way or another.
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Great to hear that it does work. Are you using the tablet in standard build or have you made some changes?
I'm not sure what one way or another options might be frankly. Any Sissons would be welcome.
For now I'm stripping DRM and converting Kindle books to epub format. Moon+ Reader reads the files well, especially like the two page landscape format. It also had the ability the read the books aloud (Google TCS downloaded voice packs are exceptional).
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I have the same issue on first launch of the Kindle app, after that it is fine until it gets killed in the background and we do the dance all over.
I have not rooted yet, waiting for TWRP to get straightened out. I am surprised that uninstalling/reinstalling didn't do the trick.
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For now I'm stripping DRM and converting Kindle books to epub format. Moon+ Reader reads the files well, especially like the two page landscape format. It also had the ability the read the books aloud (Google TCS downloaded voice packs are exceptional).
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Could you please share your workflow?
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Could you please share your workflow?
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Sure.
You need a PC (Windows, Linux or Mac) for this
Optionally install Kindle for Windows/OS X - avoid modern UI version (Kindle for Windows works on WINE for Linux)
Install Calibre - http://calibre-ebook.com/ - Windows 32/64 / Linux / OS X
Install drm python scripts - http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/
IF you are not using the Kindle application on the computer, you will need to obtain the keys for the drm scripts (see instructions in download)
Download books with Kindle application or transfer books from your Kindle device
Import books to Calibre as required - selected drm script runs first and removes DRM
Export books in any of the many available formats as desired, I use EPUB (note Kindle use a modified mobi format mostly)
Transfer to devices/cloud-storage/etc as required
You can set Calibre to monitor a directory and automatically import any new books, automatically convert them, and automatically distribute them as you wish.
Have fun.