I've looked at lots of lists of "best" Android readers, but most of them are pretty vague or seem focussed on features that aren't important to me. I'm curious about what the mavens of Mobileread have to say about their performance with more...ahem...challenging ePub formatting.
What I have in mind is things like the mouse's tale/tail in
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or drop caps, text flow around images and consistent image sizing (
Treasure Island,
Three Men in a Boat,
Desbarollda, The Waltzing Mouse).
All the readers I've tried (Aldiko, CoolReader, FBReader, Kobo, Moon) seem to do a poor job of this except Google Play Books. A pity that it's so inconvenient to use in most other ways!
So does anyone have suggestions for contenders in the layout stakes?
My other criteria:- night mode (or customisable themes where you can set background & text colour)
- simply load files from a folder (I don't need to import into some unintelligible labyrinth of folders or keep multiple copies of books)
- control over author/user CSS & fonts
- sensible use of the BACK button semantics
Irrelevant to me:- fancy bookshelves
- page turning animations (wasted CPU cycles at best, irritating and distracting at worst)
My most used reader of late is CoolReader, but FBReader has a lot going for it too.