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So I thought I'd test my mobis on my tablet, but when I tapped them I got a message that said it couldn't read them. Well, I thought, I guess I need an app for this, so I went searching.
First I saw Kindle Reader and said to myself, This has got to work, right? Kindle. Mobi. Made for each other. So I installed it and went looking for my mobis, but I couldn't find them. Instead I was asked to register with Amazon. Okay. Obviously this doesn't work the way I thought it would, so I registered and was immediately offered several FREE samples. But I still couldn't find my mobis. It turns out Kindle Reader wouldn't open books on my tablet until I first sent them through Amazon. Yeah, I had to send my books away before I could read them. The good news is that I finally got to test my mobis in Kindle Reader and they seem fine. The bad news is that this is a stupid way to read books.
Next I tried Moon+ Reader. I'd heard about it here and figured it must be good. And since it's a third party reader, maybe it will just let me open my mobis and read them without having to first upload them to the internet. It did. After thrashing around in the non-intuitive interface for a while, I was able to load a book from local files. Unfortunately, once in the book I couldn't find any controls to allow me to do anything, even to close the book. I could turn pages, and that was about it. Finally I did something that made my tablet's controls appear and I was able to escape. Well, after enduring some aggressively obnoxious advertisements. Yeah, I know, that's supposed to make me buy the PRO version. I vaguely remember this shareware BS from my rare forays into Windows. I did discover that the books look okay in that reader, too, but it's another stupid way to read books.
I will admit that I have been using Linux for so long that it's possible that I'm spoiled. I'm used to applications that just do what they're asked to do, so it's probably my own fault that I wasn't ready to deal with these things. If I were more experienced with the way things are done in those other systems, I probably wouldn't have been so lost.
Anyway, I did eventually get to test my mobis, and now I can purge those stupid applications from my tablet. Can anyone tell me whether they will leave any bits behind to further confound me in the future, or will they obediently disappear completely?
cheers
rjb
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