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[Q] Best PDF and ebook readers for the Tab?

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.

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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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.

[Q] best pdf viewer

whats the best pdf viewer?

hyperbyteX said:
whats the best pdf viewer?
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Adobe
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repligo is very good also

PDF
I´m using adobe reader too.
Works perfect, only small lags when scrolling in big pdf´s.

ezPDF is faster and rendered better than adobe and repligo. They also just added free hand annotations.

The biggest complaint I have with Adobe Reader is that it's not compatible with Honeycomb. For now, I'm using the PDF reading functionality of Aldiko, since it paginates in a way that makes sense for a tablet, but it crashes far too often to be optimal. If anyone has a suggestion for PDF viewers for Honeycomb, I'd love to hear! Thanks!

Blazerman said:
I´m using adobe reader too.
Works perfect, only small lags when scrolling in big pdf´s.
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Yup Same here. It's actually works pretty well, you just have to be patient with it.

Repligo is definitely the best pdf reader I have tested so far (One of the very few paid applications I bought)
All pdf ebooks are readily available very much like an epub ebook now with Repligo. Reflows text while preserving text formatting, remembers your last position, instantly moves from page to page, etc.
If you think Repligo is expensive, you can choose ezPDF. Although not as fast as Repligo, ezPDF is very fast with a nice page flipping animation. Lock to column feature is very nice, especially for reading multi-column pdfs (like many academic papers).
If you do not want to pay anything, I guess your next best option is Adobe Reader. Yeah, it renders pages perfectly, but it does nothing apart from that. It does not even come close to Repligo or ezPDF with respect to functionality.
If you can afford $ 4.99 or $ 0.99 , Repligo or ezPDF is Absolutely recommended.

ezPDF. Worth the money.

Fastest PDF reader

Hey! what's the fastest pdf reader???
Tryed out EZPDF reasder and aldiko but still too slow.
Adobe reader seems to be perfect but I'd like to have an App that shows me the ebook in a digital library, function present in aldiko and ezpdf reader.

try out smart office plus
http://www.getjar.com/mobile/284654...ckkgukoylczlhelc&c=6toaay65sqmnugrr3A&lang=en

Hi, for me MANTANO READER is the best!!...try it!!
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I use quickoffice pro. Smoothest pdf reader for me

franzfrontal said:
Hi, for me MANTANO READER is the best!!...try it!!
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tryed out this! Wow So fast!!!! It's great, and has listing library-looks too! Aldiko was the most beautiful how was looking but to slow to run pdf book of 60-70 mb!

Yep, Mantano reader is the one...

superfastmonkey said:
Yep, Mantano reader is the one...
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Just tried this out and while its a little flakey adding large(200+ megs) pdfs to the library, its the Fastest/best for catalog lookups!
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Mantano Reader is great . Thanks for sharing. I have been using Repligo Reader for a long time and the only feature it has that Mantano does not is that while you are reading Repligo allows you to pull up page thumbnails to advance so you get a preview of the full pdf book/magazine. I wonder if one exist that shows two pages at a time the way Zinio does?

Mantano reader sucks, takes ages to load a pdf-file with 48 pages. Ezpdf reader is even worse, isn't there any decent fast pdf reader for tablets?!
Which one to use for bigger pdfs books? 100-200mb

Yep I agree as well! Mantano Reader FTW!

Chaosgod27 said:
Yep I agree as well! Mantano Reader FTW!
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Well its ****. I tried to open a 48 pages pdf file and it takes ages for it to load...same goes with replico, EZpdf and all other pdf readers on the market. Seriously isn't there any decent pdf reader for android? I am going nuts

I use ezPDF Reader... it's not super fast, but it is a good app. I don't like Mantano: it get stuck for some time when you pinch and then scroll the page, while ez is more fluid.

Comparison on EZPdf and Mantano on Nexus 7
On my Nexus 7 EZPdf is really slow at turning pages if I'm trying to quickly flip through pages. Mantano will let you skip pages without rendering it right away and then plays catchup once you stop flipping. It ends up working better for me. Skipping through a pdf at about a second or so per page in Mantano is a more enjoyable experience for me than EZPdf, Mantano will actually render the page quickly, whereas EZPdf will work okay for the first page or so, but then slow down and give you their hourglass symbol, which ironically is an infinity animation which makes it feel more like infinity. ;P
As for a 200+ page pdf taking long to load up, for me it's about 5 seconds and that is using external usb flash I have attached with USB OTG. What takes a bit of time is loading your initial "Library" screen with the cover preview. It asks you if you want to preview covers when you import them, it would be nice if the developer would cache these covers instead of building them everytime. Also, because I'm using several removable storage drives if a pdf is not available and you press it, the app force closes.
However, overall Mantano is a more enjoyable experience, it doesn't have the nice page turning animation like EZPdf and EZPdf seems to be less susceptible to force closes. If EZPdf would cache and render more pages then one back and forth, the experience would be a whole lot better. I purchased EZPdf, because at the time it was the best one out there for PDF, no regrets in purchasing it, but the developer could refine the product more by pre-rendering the pages to allow readers to flip through a bit faster without an "infinity" lag.
Problems reported by other users of Mantano complaining of slowness may be the phone/android device itself. Nexus 7 has quad core, so the rendering by the processor is not an issue for me. However, perhaps Montano and EZPdf should have modes for different processor speeds to allow or disallow the prerendering of pages and/or the number of pages back and forth to cache.

Mantano is def the best, EzPDF is ugly and not good at rendering pages. It's also so hard to use because the tools is everywhere..

[Q] PDF rendering performance?

Hello all,
Probably due to thread prioritization, android tablets always suffer from pdf rendering woes. I was wondering how the tf700 fared as it has a more reasonable resolution than the nexus 10. I've heard that mantano has proven itself to be efficient in caching and rendering, but I don't know anyone with a tf700 and cannot check. Would love to hear experiences.

I prefer to use Perfect Viewer. Works fine for me, I read all my graphic magazines on my tablet as PDF.

I read a lot (both e-books and magazines), and the TF700 serves well. I use Mantano for my e-books (and sometimes for magazines), but it does stumble on full page imagery (actually it doesn't load it at all, and just shows a blank page). Repligo handles that a lot smoother! I've used Moon Reader+ in the past, but it did not feel quite as smooth as Mantano and lacks some features the latter provides, as far as I recall, although that may have changed since.
To be honest, the last few updates from Mantano's dev(s) haven't really brought anything new or unique, and performance seems to have degraded the last few months -- that specifically applies to loading an .epub of (very) large .pdf, for example; once you're in, it's all good.
The 700's screen resolution is really great when looking at graphs and such -- autopsy photographs, organs in all their splendor, radiographs ("X-rays")... Heh!

Does anyone have experience reading scanned books? Those tend to be 300-600ppi scanned images, sometimes clearscanned by acrobat pro.

Pinktank said:
Does anyone have experience reading scanned books? Those tend to be 300-600ppi scanned images, sometimes clearscanned by acrobat pro.
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Yup, I do. I'm using Aldiko Pro, file is a PDF. Performance is good, loading speed is very fast in my case

Pinktank said:
Does anyone have experience reading scanned books? Those tend to be 300-600ppi scanned images, sometimes clearscanned by acrobat pro.
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Did you miss the part where I mentioned graphic magazines? The ImagineFX, 2D Artist, 3Dworld, Expose, Photoshop Advanced, Digital Artist and Digital Arts Magazine are all full-res mags, they're exported at 600+ dpi directly from Indesign.
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Pinktank said:
Hello all,
Probably due to thread prioritization, android tablets always suffer from pdf rendering woes. I was wondering how the tf700 fared as it has a more reasonable resolution than the nexus 10. I've heard that mantano has proven itself to be efficient in caching and rendering, but I don't know anyone with a tf700 and cannot check. Would love to hear experiences.
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Short answer: Solo PDF reader (free, just a reader, no annotation ...)
Longer answer and background:
Coming from iPad, my main disappointment with my TF700 (and my other android devices) was/is the laughably poor performance in reading PDFs. Yes, they may load very quickly, and yes it can handle very large PDFs. I am talking about getting smooth and silky transition from one to another page or flipping through pages. After trying more than 10 readers, I settled on Solo PDF reader for reading purposes. As I said I cannot annotate them but it gives me the graphic performance close to what I had on iPad.
I don't know the details but it is insulting that my old iPad2 flips through pdf pages faster and smoother than my cutting edge android tablet.
I am sure not everybody share my sensitivity on this. But I am sure it is not a lot to ask. It is just baffling to me and I guess it should be a software issue in Android.

ShadowLea said:
Did you miss the part where I mentioned graphic magazines? The ImagineFX, 2D Artist, 3Dworld, Expose, Photoshop Advanced, Digital Artist and Digital Arts Magazine are all full-res mags, they're exported at 600+ dpi directly from Indesign.
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Yes they are, but they contain graphics and text as vectors, unlike scanned books which are single, giant images per page.

Matte paintings as vectors, that's a new one.

ShadowLea said:
Matte paintings as vectors, that's a new one.
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The images are obviously not vectors, but the magazine is a proper export that combine properly hinted and rendered fonts and not gnarly messes(if converted to vector) or solid image pages.

Ah. Well, not always. Thing is, they're not all from the 'official' (ahem) source. Most are actually just giant jpegs.

Guys use perfect viewer with the pdf add on. You'll never be disappointed reading a pdf ever again

Just another option that I didn't see listed - I've tried them all and personally prefer EZ-PDF Reader (I have the purchased version) - especially since it now supports dual-page pdf viewing, which is great in landscapre mode on the TF700 - can view two pages at once like a real book or magazine.... I believe that Perfect viewer with the PDF plugin does this as well.
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jtrosky said:
Just another option that I didn't see listed - I've tried them all and personally prefer EZ-PDF Reader (I have the purchased version) - especially since it now supports dual-page pdf viewing, which is great in landscapre mode on the TF700 - can view two pages at once like a real book or magazine.... I believe that Perfect viewer with the PDF plugin does this as well.
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EzPDF is great too -- I have used both EzPDF and Repligo and found Repligo to be a tad faster/smoother. I'll try Ez again, who knows?

Repligo FTW!!!!! ive tryed a lot of others and there simply s no substitute for repligo pdf viewer.

While it might not be the fastest, Mantano is doing a great job at organizing collections and keeping track of what I am reading at the moment.

Pros, cons: Adobe Reader, ezPDF, RepliGo

I want to mark up books and papers in odf format.
I have three choices that I see for this: Acrobat Reader, ezPDF and RepliGo.
Can anyone comment on the pros and cons of each app?

MouseTheLuckyDog said:
I want to mark up books and papers in odf format.
I have three choices that I see for this: Acrobat Reader, ezPDF and RepliGo.
Can anyone comment on the pros and cons of each app?
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There are multiple threads that discuss the best pdf editor.. U should search and read them. They are very informative.
From experience - Best one is ezpdf for editing, many options. Ezpdf is slow when is comes to fast scrolling and does not have continuous page view. U can only view one page at a time.
But when I am reading , but not annotating, I use adobe reader. It loads even large files fast, scrolling is very fast and smooth. However the annotating features are limited and cumbersome.

Does RepliGo have a continous page view?