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Old 10-17-2011, 03:33 PM   #315
prophet5590
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Originally Posted by Moe The Cat View Post
Sacha, this thread is specifically for Android ebook software. I believe Blio is currently for Windows only. An Android version is supposed to be forthcoming, but it's not here yet.
Blio is in the market -free

https://market.android.com/details?i....androidreader

I'm off to download it now, I'll update with any thoughts, if I have any...

update:
It seems big (12 meg download). It takes a while to load initially.

After using it a little - it's black/white or white/black, no other color options appear to be available. 5 choices for font size.

It does allow importing of books. I imported a couple of epubs from feedbooks, they seem to work well. The covers showed up(!)

I also imported a DRMed book (from Barnes and Noble) and got an error, "Cannot open book".

Purchases appear to only be supported for United States, Mexico and Canada.

They do offer a choice of a free 'premium' book but when I went to the site, it appears that they aren't really free? I didn't continue because I didn't want to accidentally buy something. There was a section to enter a promo code but no code was given to me.

You can have multiple bookmarks per book, with a title you enter [default is chapter name or book title, and percentage read].

There is a 'go to page' function, but it seems to be restricted to the current chapter/section (i.e., in Makers [Cory Doctorow] when I open the 'Go to page' in the section about the author, I can only go to pages 1-4)

I don't see anything wrong with it, but, I don't see anything that makes it a strong recommendation, either.

Last edited by prophet5590; 10-17-2011 at 04:26 PM. Reason: updating with findings
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