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Best App for Reading EPUB?

Hey all, what's the best ebook app that supports local libraries?

Aldiko Book Reader is quite nice. Otherwise if the file isn't too large I personally like to upload to Google Play Books.
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I use the Nook app for my .epub e-books. Pretty decent app, relatively polished UI, and the right price (free).
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Most of the readers I've tried from the Play Store are very good (Moon+ Reader, Nook, Kindle, FBRreader, Overdrive), but a few years ago I purchased Aldiko Pro and it has been perfect for me. There is a free version as well. I like the controls and options, the bookshelf looks nice and I've never once had any problem with it. I particularly like being able to make shortcuts to the books I'm currently reading, so I have an icon of the book cover to click on that will open the app and take me right to the last page I read.
It was one of the first apps I installed on my Nexus 7, I've probably read over a hundred books with it and I use it almost daily. But almost all the readers are free or have a free version, try them all! Read a chapter or two with each one and see which is most appealing to you personally.

I used to use the Nook reader until PlayBooks gained the ability to upload your ePubs to your Google account. Now i use PlayBooks for my reading. Like the fact that it syncs where you left off, bookmarks, markers etc across your devices.

Mantano is the absolute best epub reader I have found. There is a free version on the play store. Try it out. It also does pdf.
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moon reader?? it haz that 3d page flip that look like real books.. XD
again.. why am i here?? i dont even have an n7,, :silly:

LordLugard said:
I used to use the Nook reader until PlayBooks gained the ability to upload your ePubs to your Google account. Now i use PlayBooks for my reading. Like the fact that it syncs where you left off, bookmarks, markers etc across your devices.
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This. There is no better option than Google's own app - smooth, syncs progress and bookmarks, syncs the actual epub (after uploading it to your account), and best of all free.

ctbear said:
This. There is no better option than Google's own app - smooth, syncs progress and bookmarks, syncs the actual epub (after uploading it to your account), and best of all free.
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Test out Play Books. Once your collection is uploaded, the syncing is great between your devices.

I say Nook And Aldiko are best Have Tried Them Myself you can download from play store or google it!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
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I'm a huge fan of mantano. It open PDFs and epubs flawlessly. There is a free version available so give it a try.
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ctbear said:
This. There is no better option than Google's own app - smooth, syncs progress and bookmarks, syncs the actual epub (after uploading it to your account), and best of all free.
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+1 now that you can upload your epubs or pdfs, play book is my recommendation. Manteno would be second. I find the formatting better on play book than manteno. The syncing between devices just seals the deal for play book. Manteno charges to sync between devices...

LordLugard said:
I used to use the Nook reader until PlayBooks gained the ability to upload your ePubs to your Google account. Now i use PlayBooks for my reading. Like the fact that it syncs where you left off, bookmarks, markers etc across your devices.
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PS - the Nook app does all of this also. for free (unlike some of the others..obviously PlayBooks is free as well).
The thing I like about Nook over PlayBooks is that Nook gives me more text formatting options. Mainly, the ability to change margin widths. I have found this especially useful for reading some e-books.
Most of the big name readers have these sorts of additional text formatting options, however some charge for sync capabilities, etc.
I personally think that the actual contents of my books look the best in the Nook app (once you play around and get the formatting setup how you want it) and with free syncing between all of your devices, it's all win.
To each their own, obviously.
Cheers
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I love moon reader easy to use and really customizable
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I highly recommend Google Play Books for epubs as well. It is very nice looking, smooth, and the sync feature is great. I also LOVE the look of the widget, it is the centerpiece of my home screen. My only complaint is no support for my comics in cbr format, and also it seems that pdf pages (both pdf books and cbr->pdf conversions) load rather slowly at times.
But if you will solely be using epub, you can't go wrong here. You may have problems uploading converted epubs though.

smith2050 said:
I love moon reader easy to use and really customizable
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Yeah, Moon Reader is great, and Moon+ Reader is 50% off!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyersoft.moonreaderp

I seem to have a lot of problems with the epubs I have uploaded to play books, they take forever to load. I usually don't bother waiting. Aldiko and Moon+ are both good options. I also highly recommend aldiko sync to sync between devices.

I also tried a few different EPUB readers but Aldiko was the one that stayed my Nexus.

So I'm playing with Google Play Books, and generally I like it. One problem however, on several books it won't adjust the font size. I can change the setting but there's no change in the display. Any thoughts? Is the epub file hard-coded or something? Thanks...

I've tested many epub software and my favorite by far is moon+ reader. You can configure it to be perfect for you. The other soft doesn't have near as much setting to adjuste your reading to be as confortable as possible. But yeah you will have to take 10/20 minutes the first time configuring it (and have a few more tweak later too to do to be perfect). And that the only soft that render all my epub perfectly; during my testing I find some reader cut some text for no reason (aldiko in particuliar) but maybe that have been patched.
Sorry for my not so good english

Can you read textbooks comfortably on the N72?

Hey guys, long time XDA viewer but first time poster. I am a college student currently with the ipad mini. I use my tablet mainly for textbooks since my campus takes up to 30 minutes to walk across and I would hate to lug around huge textbooks for biochemistry and the like all day. My ipad mini is decent for textbooks, the width allows me to view text fine. But I was wondering what your opinions were using the N72 for textbook viewing. It is narrower but the resolution is higher so maybe text would be easier to read?

I find it great. I haven't used an actual textbook file but I do have a PDF of comp science and it's awesome for that. Also I read eBooks on it daily. If using Google Play App you can even adjust the font size to make it bigger/smaller (which all epub/pdfs files can be uploaded to Play Books through the website).
Let me take a picture of an eBook on the tablet next to a real book. 1 sec.
EDIT: Here you go.
Here is the tablet next to a real book, notice the text is just as readable (book has larger font than eBook but that can be adjusted):
And here is a close up of the text to see how crisp it is:
Sorry for subpar pics, they were taken with my Nexus 4 in my low lighting room.

The display looks brilliant! Wow, I did not know about that functionality in play books. I will definitely test it out and purchase a N7 if it works well. Haha I'm pretty excited to ditch my boring mini...
How exactly do you alter the font size? Maybe I am being a little unobservant here or is this only possible for epub versions?

troyyi said:
The display looks brilliant! Wow, I did not know about that functionality in play books. I will definitely test it out and purchase a N7 if it works well. Haha I'm pretty excited to ditch my boring mini...
How exactly do you alter the font size? Maybe I am being a little unobservant here or is this only possible for epub versions?
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I think it might only be available for epubs. Apparently my comp science is epub as well, thought it was PDF. Either way just tap the middle of the screen and press the "Aa" button, it will let you change the font size if PDF also supports it. You can also change the text alignment, background color, font and line height.

TaintedByte said:
I think it might only be available for epubs. Apparently my comp science is epub as well, thought it was PDF. Either way just tap the middle of the screen and press the "Aa" button, it will let you change the font size if PDF also supports it. You can also change the text alignment, background color, font and line height.
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Ahh I see. I guess I can always convert the files and read them that way. I'll definitely look into it when i get back to the states. Thanks a lot Tainted!

I had a question regarding books. My wife uses the Kindle app to read books on my tablet. I usually convert the books to pdf and drop them in the Kindle folder.
What is the best way to use the Google Play app to read her books? Convert? Will they just open or do they need to be dropped somewhere?
Thanks

FormeriPhoney said:
I had a question regarding books. My wife uses the Kindle app to read books on my tablet. I usually convert the books to pdf and drop them in the Kindle folder.
What is the best way to use the Google Play app to read her books? Convert? Will they just open or do they need to be dropped somewhere?
Thanks
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The only way to read non-Google Play books in the Play Books app is to upload them through the website. You can upload any PDF or ePUB file here: https://play.google.com/books/uploads
It will automatically show up on all your devices logged in to your account.

TaintedByte said:
The only way to read non-Google Play books in the Play Books app is to upload them through the website. You can upload any PDF or ePUB file here: https://play.google.com/books/uploads
It will automatically show up on all your devices logged in to your account.
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Thank you sir.

For PDF font size adjustment you have to use some app with text reflow capability.
I use EasyPDF Reader - the best in class in my opinion.
For ebooks I use Moon Reader, which also can read PDF files.
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Looking for a PDF Reader

Hello guys
I'm looking for an app for my Nexus with some kind of way to open multiple PDFs at the same time and change between them quickly, for studying purposes. Adobe Reader doesn't do this. Do you know any app with this function?
Thanks

Duarteman said:
Hello guys
I'm looking for an app for my Nexus with some kind of way to open multiple PDFs at the same time and change between them quickly, for studying purposes. Adobe Reader doesn't do this. Do you know any app with this function?
Thanks
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Try iannotate
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Duarteman said:
Hello guys
I'm looking for an app for my Nexus with some kind of way to open multiple PDFs at the same time and change between them quickly, for studying purposes. Adobe Reader doesn't do this. Do you know any app with this function?
Thanks
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If you are only looking for PDF reader, then just go with any really. All are good!
However, you are looking for PDF reader + epub, mobi etc support go for moon+reader. It has speech and many cool options
If you are looking for PDF+ Office documents, just try office365
I am using both apps (paid versions) and there is not any app better than them in my opinion. Free ones are as great but Office365 free version won't let you edit documents.

56K said:
Try iannotate
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I tried iannotate and it really has a nice system of tabs to open multiple PDF files and that was what I needed. But the App itself is a little buggy and not very fluent (can't even compare to Adobe). Do you know any other?
Thank you

Radaeel pdf , not sure if its compatible if you get it from playstore, but google the apk if u can't get in the playstore

QuickOffice by Google ?
Maybe OfficeSuite (not free)...
I never used a multi-pdf viewer so I couldn't really tell

Kingsoft Office?

Duarteman said:
Hello guys
I'm looking for an app for my Nexus with some kind of way to open multiple PDFs at the same time and change between them quickly, for studying purposes. Adobe Reader doesn't do this. Do you know any app with this function?
Thanks
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You need EBookDroid.
HTML:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ebookdroid
It's a great PDF reader, and I use it to read my university books all the time, jumping from one book to another.
I paid for Moon+ Reader Pro in the past, but I've found EBookDroid works a lot better.

I like Foxit.

I tried EbookDroid and even though I liked it, it doesn't have a decent way to change quickly between PDFs. I think I'm gonna stick to iAnotate.

just go for adobe reader.

Try RepliGo Reader, ability to add notes and stuff
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I read a lot pdf's on my nexus and i tried most of pdfs readers and i can truly say that mantano reader is the best for big pdf files

Mantano is slow as hell and does not support in pdf files included page numbers.

I have to read an insane amount for school, so i personally use Moon Reader or Foxit for those few PDF's that Moon Reader has a problem rendering. Kingsoft is nice for just reading but doesnt have any good markup options like Moon or Foxit. Moon is pretty feature rich and has options for both day and night time reading to reduce strain on your eyes which is helpful if you have to go late into the night.
Cheers

I like Adobe Reader but the tabs system is really important for me. I study engineering and I need to have one PDF with exercises opened and another PDF with the theory, that's the way I'm used to work with my computer and I bought a tablet mainly because it's very light and portable.
The ability to write notes and underline words/sentences on PDFs isn't very important to me, I don't use it.

ezPDF reeder is the best on android, and 10% of GoodReeader on IOS
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I tried a lot of PDF readers only ones with both good text reflow and reversed/nightview ifound were ezPDF Reader (paid) and Adobe Reader. I think paid Moon+ has that too with PDFI. For epub it is by far the best imo and I am consisering buyong pro.
In my opinion every reader should have reversed/nightview for when one has to read much or at night.So ridiculous that so much pdf readers don"t have that or automatic resizing text to fit screen They shouldn't even be called a reader-app.
In EzPDF Reader you can switch easy to other pdf's via recent documents. It will remember the pages of all the pdf's where you were at. If that is what you mean. I like it a lot it has a lot of options. .
But if Moon + pro is as good with pdf as with epub I might switch in the near future. (It has better animated page flip with epub than Ez with pdf also by the way).

try SmartQ Reader.it's the best PDF reader that i ever used
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Duarteman said:
I tried EbookDroid and even though I liked it, it doesn't have a decent way to change quickly between PDFs.
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I think EBookDroid's tab interface is very decent.

Best Free apps to annotate on PDF

What are the best apps you used to annotate on PDFs ? I just started taking classes again and want to use it to mark up the PDF lecture notes

Ezpdf and lecture notes is what I see most people using. I wish s note could import pdf like the old version could
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ChrisNee1988 said:
Ezpdf and lecture notes is what I see most people using. I wish s note could import pdf like the old version could
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the new Snote can import pdf files
somenone explained how in another tread I don't remember how because I'm in europe and I still have to wait to receive my tablet from usa

Mehdy_ said:
the new Snote can import pdf files
somenone explained how in another tread I don't remember how because I'm in europe and I still have to wait to receive my tablet from usa
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Yea I just saw that on the other thread but it doesn't work with me when trying to import from google drive.

ChrisNee1988 said:
Yea I just saw that on the other thread but it doesn't work with me when trying to import from google drive.
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Can u post that thread please

Dr_Muhsin said:
Can u post that thread please
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Found this:
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To import pdf's into S-note:
-while on the start up screen, click on 'recent notes' in the top left corner
-when that opens, touch 'settings' button and select 'import'
-select from which location you want to import (my files, google drive etc) and what the file kind is (s notes or pdf)
-Done
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in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2473164

shb8 said:
What are the best apps you used to annotate on PDFs ? I just started taking classes again and want to use it to mark up the PDF lecture notes
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Hi guys,
I have just released a new slim pdf annotation app that targets those of us who want to annotate while we are reading documents. This app is not for note taking (for those who need that I recommend Papyrus).
My app is the slimmest PDF reader, with pen and marker annotation, I have seen. It is easy to use, and it allows you to annotate and highlight as you read. Exactly as you do on paper. It is extremely easy to switch between the pen and the marker; and to toggle colours.
Also – the app recognizes the difference between your finger and the stylus. Fingers are used to move, zoom and erase. The stylus is used to annotate.
A free version of Stylus Annotator is available on Play. Please try it and rate it.

I tried this and found it useful
iAnnonate
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.branchfire.android.iannotate

I've tried em all. If you're looking for something that you can take notes directly on pdf's while keeping the searchable text xodo and ezpdf are the best. XODO has much better performance and UI but EZpdf has way more options except it's clunky and ugly.

Why does Chrome act differently on my Note?

So, when I go to my college website on my note and click on a PDF it will automatically download the PDF. However, when I click on the same document from my LG G Pad 8.3, it will open the PDF within the web page. It does not redirect. There is a PDF reader embedded on the college website that it will open in to read. Why does Chrome act differently on different tablets? Same version and everything. How can I turn off auto downloading on the note? Thanks.

Have u done it while switching to desktop mode in the browser? Just a thought...
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Same thing happens to me. I thought it was weird myself.