The Big List of Android eBook Reader Apps

[noaxis2]

Anyone have suggestions for nice fonts to add?

[Westlyn]

Thanks for your input. I did manage to get a few PDBs into the right place so was able to try it out once I realised which folder the files had to be copied to on the sd card - it wasn't entirely obvious until I read the help file - I normally skip that step :-)

I still need to try it a bit with more heavily formatted text but my non-DRMed pdbs at least opened.

[sav.here]

Originally Posted by noaxis2

Anyone have suggestions for nice fonts to add?

I usually prefer sans serif fonts for reading... you can try sans serif fonts from these two font websites

http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=501&sort=date

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/style/Sans%20Serif

[Dopedangel]

Their is a new version of coolreader available in sourceforge
its supposedly works with pdb files I don't have any to try it out

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cren...r3/cr3-3.0.45/

[Seadart]

Originally Posted by Dave_S

Have you tried Palm's Android reader at eReader.com. I would suspect that their own reader should be able to read their own DRM?

http://www.ereader.com/ereader/software/browse.htm

You would think so, but it does not work. I have eReader, Reader, Aldiko, Kindle and Adobe on my phone but non will read the protected .pdb books. I have loaded the books from the PC and also directly from eReader.com. eReader on the PC can read the protected books.

Still looking for ideas to solve this.

Chris Dart

[Seadart]

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

Their is a new version of coolreader available in sourceforge
its supposedly works with pdb files I don't have any to try it out

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cren...r3/cr3-3.0.45/

Have just taken a look, quote of supported formats from SourceForge page:
"Supported formats: FB2, TXT, RTF, TCR, HTML, EPUB, CHM."
Tried the PC version and it does not open .pdb nor .prc nor mobi - pity!

Chris Dart

[Dopedangel]

Originally Posted by Seadart

Have just taken a look, quote of supported formats from SourceForge page:
"Supported formats: FB2, TXT, RTF, TCR, HTML, EPUB, CHM."
Tried the PC version and it does not open .pdb nor .prc nor mobi - pity!

Chris Dart

the pdb support was just added this week it has not been released to the market or its info updated yet.
You can check the git here
http://crengine.git.sourceforge.net/...ine;a=shortlog

And it has been confirmed in the coolreader thread on the forum it works with
pdb and prc

[tamole]

iReader will open DRM. pdb books. I've tried it and it works fairly well. I like Moon+ reader best as an android ereader, but you have to remove the DRM first and convert to epub to use it. There is information out there for removing DRM for personal use. Just google it.

[Westlyn]

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

the pdb support was just added this week it has not been released to the market or its info updated yet.
You can check the git here
http://crengine.git.sourceforge.net/...ine;a=shortlog

And it has been confirmed in the coolreader thread on the forum it works with
pdb and prc

I didn't test with DRMed content though. It may be necessary to remove DRM before one could use CoolReader and if so then one might as well finish the job and convert to epub, I would guess.

Plus exact formatting may be an issue.

CoolReader is very readable but I've recently found some issues in its formatting/character display support for apostrophe and smart quotes compared to say FBReader on a Baen free book that I just read.

[emilianm]

Hello,

If I would like to read .epub and .pdf files, and to have my android phone synchronized with my android tablet what are my options in this moment ?

Thanks!

[Dopedangel]

Official coolreader update has been released in the market
This is the blurb from the market page

Reading books in epub, fb2, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, pml formats.
eBook reader. Supports epub (non-DRM), fb2, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi, pml formats.

WHAT'S NEW
What's in this version:
PDB support added (non-DRM Mobipocket, PalmDOC, eREADER - plain text, html, pml)
Raw PML text format support.

Now just needs a way to sync between different devices.

[Westlyn]

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

Official coolreader update has been released in the market
This is the blurb from the market page

Reading books in epub, fb2, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, pml formats.
eBook reader. Supports epub (non-DRM), fb2, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi, pml formats.

WHAT'S NEW
What's in this version:
PDB support added (non-DRM Mobipocket, PalmDOC, eREADER - plain text, html, pml)
Raw PML text format support.

Now just needs a way to sync between different devices.

Looks good - do I understand that description to mean that it can open .mobi files in addition to .prc and .pdb?

For the sake of completeness, I recently discovered that FBReader has the (undocumented?) capability of opening .PRC and .mobi files but doesn't appear to recognise .PDB files -

[surakmn]

Originally Posted by Seadart

You would think so, but it does not work. I have eReader, Reader, Aldiko, Kindle and Adobe on my phone but non will read the protected .pdb books. I have loaded the books from the PC and also directly from eReader.com. eReader on the PC can read the protected books.

Still looking for ideas to solve this.

Chris Dart

The paid version of iReader (costs about $2) can handle DRM protected mobi and eReader files. It's not perfect, but works quite well. My wife has many, many, many books in these formats from when she used a Palm TX as her reading device. She buys new books through her Nook software, but the old books work well enough in iReader.

Note, the free version of iReader does support mobi and eReader files but not protected files. You need the paid version for that.

[emilianm]

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

Now just needs a way to sync between different devices.

Do they have an road-map for this sync functionality to be implemented ?

[Dopedangel]

Originally Posted by emilianm

Do they have an road-map for this sync functionality to be implemented ?

Not that I know off its just one guy developing this app in his spare time
it was first being used in jinke eink devices now he has ported it to android. Looking at the git log he has just started adding antiword so that means we might see word doc support in a few weeks.
I did ask for dropbox sync support in coolreader thread and he did say he would look into it and inquired about the Dropbox Api after that no follow up. I think sync is not that important at the moment as the number of users that would have android tablets and phones is not very high so the author might not be interested in it yet.
Anyway with google being such a promoter of cloud services I expect them to come up with a way for apps to store settings in the cloud in the next few months