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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
The issue with most Android readers (such as Moon+), is that they throw away almost 100% of the book's CSS, and override completely with user styles. Even basics like:
- Negative indented poetry
- blank margins separating scenes
become completely mangled.
Gitden and PocketBook are damn good, and do a great job of following the original CSS, while still allowing some user-setting leeway.
The best you can do is code your book properly for the major retailers/ereaders, and ignore these non-standards compliant Android apps. If a user decides to use one of those apps, they should be aware of the flaws that come along for the ride.
Side Note: I've been using Gitden Reader on my phone for years. It's been my go-to that entire time if I'm not reading on my ereader. Downside is the app hasn't been updated for years.
Within the past few weeks, I had PocketBook recommended to me. It's updated more often, and from what I can tell so far, it's one of the best Android readers.
PocketBook uses Webkit-based rendering, or you can alternatively use ADE (RMSDK [EPUB2]/Readium [EPUB3])... so it should support lots of advanced CSS, and in ADE mode, it should display extremely similar to actual ereaders. |
Yep, I like Gitden and Pocketbook. Gitden has some tablet issues though, if they are not the longer, skinny video style aspect ratio. On tablets closer to a 4:3 ratio, Gitden will chop cover images in SVG wrappers (also other images in same), and display the chopped bit on the next page. Fine on phones though.
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