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Old 05-19-2014, 08:49 PM   #4
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Thanks for the feedback. I haven't tried FBReader on the Nexus, but I'll check it out.

I can't make it work on the Kobo, but then I can't make ToC links work either.
When I got the tablet, eBook viewer was the primary use case, and FBReader got the nod as the software.

I already have the version written in C installed under Windows and Linux - it handles ePub, Mobi, and as a particular win for me, files produced for the Plucker offline HTML reader under PalmOS. I've been (and still am) a Palm user for over 15 years, and have converted about 4,000 files to Plucker documents. It was nice to be able to read them on something other than my PDA.

The Android version is a port to Java. It doesn't handle Plucker files, but does just fine on ePub and Mobi. I have a number of books in either format, and didn't want to have to do lots of Calibre format conversion. As a major plus, sent to the tablet from Calibre, metadata added in Calibre goes along, so things like multi-book series are listed by series if desired, in series order.

I'm quite pleased. Being able to read both ePub and Mobi files with the same software was an absolute requirement. The rest is a welcome fringe benefit.

I'm also doing the odd tweak in Sigil - mostly to add working tables of contents to volumes that didn't have them. Sigil also edits HTML and saves as ePub, so I'm slowly converting so stuff in only HTML format to ePub for reading on the tablet.
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