Best Reader App

[MachinaCarnis]

So... now it's been 2 months I've been using my Nova Pro to read books.

Testing several apps, like ReadEra, AiReader, Xodo, Challenger Comics, and others ones.

I finally made my choice:

Books Management on my PC : Calibre

Best Reader App : Librera Reader, because I can easily navigate through most of MetaData categories of my collection. Just sad that it is slower to launch and less easy to go from one page to the other as I need to swipe. I love the way it automatically identifies the book series, really usefull.


My prefered font : Merriweather, initialy discovered with ReadEra

[Question Mark]

Moon+ Reader for me. Hands down. As it is one of the few reading apps which can handle furigana in Japanese properly.

However, I recently discovered that @VoiceAlouReader can also render furigana in Japanese properly. Still prefer Moon+ Plus, but it is good to have options.

[Gibbo]

For me atm the Kindle app love it, specially for this cold days I'm using a Bluetooth selfie stick to turn the pages.

Kindle on a big screen my dreams come true.

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On my Nova i use the default neoreader 3.0, maybe i should try something else.
On my k1 i found myself confortable with PocketBook

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d....obreey.reader

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Question Mark

Moon+ Reader for me. Hands down. As it is one of the few reading apps which can handle furigana in Japanese properly.

However, I recently discovered that @VoiceAlouReader can also render furigana in Japanese properly. Still prefer Moon+ Plus, but it is good to have options.

Does Moon+ respect the CSS?

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Does Moon+ respect the CSS?

Not exactly sure what CSS is. There are a lot of things in the various menus which one can adjust. Most of them, I just ignore or leave as is unless they seem to be affecting my reading experience.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Question Mark

Not exactly sure what CSS is. There are a lot of things in the various menus which one can adjust. Most of them, I just ignore or leave as is unless they seem to be affecting my reading experience.

You've been on MR since 2016 and you don't know what CSS is?

CSS is what tells the eBook how to be displayed.

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You've been on MR since 2016 and you don't know what CSS is?

CSS is what tells the eBook how to be displayed.

Oh, I've seen the term thrown about along with a bunch of others. I tend to me more interested in the content of what I'm reading than with how it looks so I've never bothered much with finding out what all the various terms mean.

As for the CSS in Moon+ Reader, I have no problems with reading books in English, Chinese or Japanese. It renders furigana properly whereas most other ereading apps don't. However, it displays Japanese text horizontally rather than vertically. So does that mean that it is not fully respecting the CSS of the ebook? I don't know.

Personally, I don't mind whether the text is horizontal or vertical. What matters to me when I'm reading in Japanese is how it renders the furigana because if it does not display furigana properly, that not only interferes with reading in Japanese, but it also interferes with using a lookup dictionary.

[Gibbo]

Originally Posted by Question Mark

Oh, I've seen the term thrown about along with a bunch of others. I tend to me more interested in the content of what I'm reading than with how it looks..

I'm with you Mark, I wouldn't know how to modify the CSS.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Gibbo

I'm with you Mark, I wouldn't know how to modify the CSS.

This is not about modifying CSS but if Moon+ respects the CSS.

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

This is not about modifying CSS but if Moon+ respects the CSS.

So how does one tell if it respects the CSS or not?

I can read books easily and Japanese books render better than in most other reading apps I have tested.

However, Japanese texts are presented horizontally instead of vertically. So would I be correct to assume that it doesn't completely respect a book"s CSS in Japanese?