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Originally Posted by tangocat
For now, I have some observations about google play 3rd party apps like FBreader, Moon+, librera, kobo reader etc. They all work slower than the built-in by reader app. FBreader doesn’t refresh correctly. The built in app should meet most people’s need in my view.
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I finally went online and tried a few other reader applications found via the F-Droid app store and can more or less confirm that they are slower, albeit to very different degrees.
koreader is basically useless, as it is so slow that it rather gives the impression that it is not working at all. Cool reader and fbreader were not only a bit slow, but overly complex without being able to display an epub in a somewhat readable layout. The reason i prefer PDF is that these files already are in a proper layout, without the need to be (badly) interpreted by some reader software.
The reader software i liked most besides the native one is librera. While it is slightly slower it is still very usable and overall a very nicely done and versatile application. It's great how it is able to use various external dictionary apps like goldendict. Only downside is that goldendict displays nothing more but a blank page when looking up words from within librera...
I asked the vendor how to configure user installed stardict dictionaries for being used by their built in apps, and the answer was that it is currently not supported but will be in a future firmware release. That's a bit disappointing because the Boyue dictionary application does use these dictionaries, but apparently is a different application not integrated with their reader software.
The built in English/Chinese dictionary files are "hidden in the system and you can not change it" (/system/dics/*.dic) and they are not even in a stardict format, but something else i was not able to find out. I was able to find this location using the Ghost Commander file manager.
@petrovich: If you stick with the vendor applications and don't use slower 3rd party apps, the Likebook Note indeed feels notably faster than the Boox i86. This is rather surprising, given the very similar hardware specs, and i only found out after giving up on trying to use the Likebook the same way as the i86 and rather get to terms with the built in software.