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GlenBarrington · 06-01-2011, 06:16 PM

Sorry if this has been covered, but a casual search didn't find exactly what I'm looking for, and everyone seems so, confident regarding what they are doing and why, and I am far from confident with my new Droid phone. Plus the Android App store app descriptions are remarkably vague.

I just got a Motorola Droid X2 phone and I want to download an ebook reader app or apps. But I'd like to duplicate my reading experience with my PRS350 as closely as possible with as few apps as possible.

I want to read EPUB and LRF books bought from Sony bookstore, and Epub books from Kobo, either DRMed or protection free. I want to be able to read books from smashwords and books from Baen Books as well.

Ideally, it would be a single app. I'm tempted to download the Sony App, but my experience with Sony bookstore is not 100% positive so I'm a bit leery. I buy many books from KOBO and am inclined to use their app, but it isn't clear to me if it will read and display books from Sony, or Baen or Smashwords.

I really don't want to have a different app for each eBook vendor I am likely to use. Can someone suggest a strategy for the maximum ePub and lrf flexibility for android?

06-01-2011, 06:16 PM	#1
GlenBarrington Cheese Whiz Posts: 1,986 Karma: 11677147 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Springfield, Illinois Device: Kindle PW, Samsung Tab A 10.1(2019), Pixel 6a.	How best to emulate Sony Ereader Experience? Sorry if this has been covered, but a casual search didn't find exactly what I'm looking for, and everyone seems so, confident regarding what they are doing and why, and I am far from confident with my new Droid phone. Plus the Android App store app descriptions are remarkably vague. I just got a Motorola Droid X2 phone and I want to download an ebook reader app or apps. But I'd like to duplicate my reading experience with my PRS350 as closely as possible with as few apps as possible. I want to read EPUB and LRF books bought from Sony bookstore, and Epub books from Kobo, either DRMed or protection free. I want to be able to read books from smashwords and books from Baen Books as well. Ideally, it would be a single app. I'm tempted to download the Sony App, but my experience with Sony bookstore is not 100% positive so I'm a bit leery. I buy many books from KOBO and am inclined to use their app, but it isn't clear to me if it will read and display books from Sony, or Baen or Smashwords. I really don't want to have a different app for each eBook vendor I am likely to use. Can someone suggest a strategy for the maximum ePub and lrf flexibility for android?