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Old 04-30-2018, 11:42 AM   #1
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What's your favourite app for epubs?
I love my new Boox Note, but I don't really like the default ebook reading app. It lacks some basic functions that many other reading apps have, so I was thinking about trying some of them. I downloaded Moon+ and it seems nice, but since I come from a Kindle I don't really know other good apps for epubs.
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Old 04-30-2018, 01:38 PM   #2
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It lacks some basic functions
Can you point out what is lacking, and specific features you are looking for?
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It lacks, for example, epub3 support, sharing options for annotations, hyphenation in other languages than english (I'm italian and if I read italian text the hyphenation is wrong) and it also fails to display correctly many pictures (jpgs) embedded in the epubs.
These are the first problems I noticed.
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Old 05-01-2018, 07:28 PM   #4
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I have FBReader and Koreader, I have set the fonts on FBReader and till now is the one I'm using most of the time.
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Old 05-02-2018, 08:07 AM   #5
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I have FBReader and Koreader, I have set the fonts on FBReader and till now is the one I'm using most of the time.
I'll give it a try, thanks.
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I'll give it a try, thanks.
For Koreader, you can find the last nightly version here:

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Careful with FBReader, things have changed from the olden times:

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In the new version of FBReader, there is a "Synchronization" settings chapter, which contains a "Enable Synchronization / DO NOT synchronize my library [to servers]" - you have to specify that you do not want it - checkbox, and if you tap on the checkbox it toasts that you have to be online to toggle it.
The next row is "Upload all books to servers", with default option "if connected to Wi-Fi"
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I love my new Boox Note, but I don't really like the default ebook reading app. It lacks some basic functions that many other reading apps have, so I was thinking about trying some of them. I downloaded Moon+ and it seems nice, but since I come from a Kindle I don't really know other good apps for epubs.
Any suggestion?

Thanks everyone!
I use Moon Reader Pro for epubs and pdf's. It takes a bit of time to configure it to your taste but once you do I think it's great.
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Hello,
I like pocketbook app. it maintains the original layout of the book, and this is what I search in an epub reader. I came from MoonReader and Alreader, both very good, but they don't respect the original layout of the books, or at least i was not able to set them up correctly.
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Hello,
I like pocketbook app. it maintains the original layout of the book, and this is what I search in an epub reader. I came from MoonReader and Alreader, both very good, but they don't respect the original layout of the books, or at least i was not able to set them up correctly.
I've never tried it. Is it available on Play Store?
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I like pocketbook app. it maintains the original layout of the book, and this is what I search in an epub reader. I came from MoonReader and Alreader, both very good, but they don't respect the original layout of the books, or at least i was not able to set them up correctly.
I tried pocketbook and is not a good option for Note because in the menu you can not see correctly the options, in a normal table you do, but in note you don't.
Besides that none of the readers respect the original layout of the book, included Pocketbook.

In the test I did, the best options were FBReader and Koreader for Note compared with the rest and I tested mostly all readers.
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I've never tried it. Is it available on Play Store?
It is, but you can't install it directly from the Play Store as it's not available for devices with Android 4.0.4.
but you can download the apk and install it without any problems.

It's true that no reader fully respects the original layout of the epubs, as citytrader said, but pocketbook is one of the best readers doing this (IMHO).
It's also true that general menus are not readable, but I found a workaround: I downloaded the app in my mobile phone, set it up, exported the configuration (it's an option of the reader) and imported in my T68 pocketbook. After the first setup you don't need that menu anymore...

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It is, but you can't install it directly from the Play Store as it's not available for devices with Android 4.0.4.
but you can download the apk and install it without any problems.

It's true that no reader fully respects the original layout of the epubs, as citytrader said, but pocketbook is one of the best readers doing this (IMHO).
It's also true that general menus are not readable, but I found a workaround: I downloaded the app in my mobile phone, set it up, exported the configuration (it's an option of the reader) and imported in my T68 pocketbook. After the first setup you don't need that menu anymore...

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Install FBReader or Koreader and problem solved, are much better readers.
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Install FBReader or Koreader and problem solved, are much better readers.
I tried FBReader but I don't like it a lot, I prefer Moon Reader. Is it Koreader available on Play Store? I can't find it.
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I tried FBReader but I don't like it a lot, I prefer Moon Reader. Is it Koreader available on Play Store? I can't find it.
You could try following the information in this thread from the Koreader forum:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=240617

Can't recall the exact process now, but I was able to get Koreader up and running on my Max1 through following various instructions I found on the thread.
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