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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Bah. I think some people are just trying to be contrarian. Always the same questions regarding e-readers:
- How does it handle PDF? (Readers below 9.7 inch? Badly.)
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The first one I'm aware of that did was the Kindle DX. It was aimed at the education market, had a larger screen, and included Adobe's Mobile SDK to provide PDF viewing, because the assumed content to be viewed was textbooks that were issued as PDFs.
My viewer device is a 7" Android tablet. I
can view PDFs on it, but seldom do. Most are simply not designed for reading on a smaller screen. By preference, I get ePub, but my viewer software handles Mobi, FB2, and several other things as well.
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What alternatives are there to Calibre? (None. No other program can do what calibre can.)
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There are programs that can handle parts of Calibre's job, but nothing that can do all of it.
Do they state
why they want an alternative?
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Then you have the people who have 'some specific demands' of their e-readers, which basically narrows it down to one device ever created, which has been out of production for 5 years, and then they say they'll never buy anything else ever again...
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I have a device like that, which was a pass along from a friend. It's an Android tablet with LCD
and eInk screens. The company that made it was ahead of its time and is long gone. Fortunately, there was a support forum on MobileRead for it, with pointers to things like a newer version of Android (2.1 Froyo) , pushed out the door in beta by engineers just before they went belly up.
It was fun to play with and get working, but isn't my main device.
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I have demands. I'm picky, especially if it comes down to devices I have to see/look at, like computer monitors, tablets and e-readers. The one thing I demand is the very best screen available at the time of purchase, and most other things are wannahaves. I'm realistic enough to realize that it's a pipe dream to have *EVERYTHING* I'd want in one single device.
The Kobo Aura ONE comes darn close, though.
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The thing I'd like on my tablet is a higher res screen. It's a low-end device, and the screen is 800x480. But the main function of the device is eBook viewer, and the resolution is adequate for that, and devices with higher res screens cost rather more than the $30 US the tablet cost me...
The first one I got cost $20, as a grand opening promotion for a retailer. A 7'' Android tablet running Jellybean for $20? Sold. If all I did with it was view eBooks, it would be more than worth the purchase price, and I could do rather more with it. The current one is a newer model from the same vendor. It has quirks rooting mostly resolved. (Like, no, I don't want Google Play Music as my listening app, and why on Earth is it installed as a System app I can't uninstall?
The stock Android Music player is entirely adequate for me, and is now in place.)
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Dennis