New Reader with great pdf-support: Mantano Reader (like aldiko+ezpdf)

[Jabby]

Does anyone know if there is a way to make the Mantano menus more readable. Things like the table of contents, the explorer and other menus use fonts so small and light as to make them nearly unreadable. If I don't have a magnifying glass handy, I'm out of luck.

Mantano does a good job except in this area and in two column mode.

Regards - John

[jillmess]

Does anyone know how to change where Mantano downloads books from Calibre Server to? I have set up my calibre server address in Mantano's "My bookstores" and am able to access my calibre library and download books ok, but they are being downloaded to the internal storage area of my tablet. I then have to move them to the sdcard folder (which is the sync folder I have set up in Mantano).

[jhempel24]

Originally Posted by jillmess

Does anyone know how to change where Mantano downloads books from Calibre Server to? I have set up my calibre server address in Mantano's "My bookstores" and am able to access my calibre library and download books ok, but they are being downloaded to the internal storage area of my tablet. I then have to move them to the sdcard folder (which is the sync folder I have set up in Mantano).

I just asked this a page back....no you can't.

[jillmess]

Originally Posted by jhempel24

I just asked this a page back....no you can't.

Sorry, I thought I had read every page of this thread but I must have skipped that one. At least with my device it is downloading to a "Books" folder on the internal storage.

[jhempel24]

Mine just downloads to the root of the download folder....I don't like that so much...books would be fine for me lol.

[shadowwolf36]

I haven't seen info on this...but does anyone know why certain books from say my Sony epub file won't transfer to dropbox...I get the blue circle...about 1/2 of what I transferred went through fine...the rest have the blue icon instead of green...I am sooo green on this stuff LOL

Edit: NVM...It seems the larger files are taking much longer to upload completely...I guess I just need patience

[cliver]

Originally Posted by jillmess

Does anyone know how to change where Mantano downloads books from Calibre Server to? I have set up my calibre server address in Mantano's "My bookstores" and am able to access my calibre library and download books ok, but they are being downloaded to the internal storage area of my tablet. I then have to move them to the sdcard folder (which is the sync folder I have set up in Mantano).

I use the calibre interface to send books to my reader instead of fetching books from calbre from within the reader if that makes sence .
I have calibre set up to send the books to my specific folder on my reader and the reader set up to import books from that folder.
You will need to set up the device plugin (in calibre preferences/plugins/device interface plugins/"whatever device plugin you use") to set the path to your chosen folder. Once set up it works a treat for me.

[ghostyjack]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I buy from them all the time and never an issue. Try doing an epub to epub conversion in Calibre and see if that fixes it.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't work.

Looks like I'm going to have to raise it direct with Mantano now.

[jhempel24]

Anyone happen to have an issue where when you close the app you lose all locations in your books? This JUST started happening...I don't know why...no update or anything, just stopped doing it.

[Mike4672]

Originally Posted by jhempel24

Anyone happen to have an issue where when you close the app you lose all locations in your books? This JUST started happening...I don't know why...no update or anything, just stopped doing it.

I've been having that same problem for the last few weeks. It was working fine and then it suddenly began losing its book locations for no obvious reason that I could see.

I was hoping that the latest update (2.03) would fix the problem, but it didn't; it's still doing it.

[taosaur]

I just swung by the Mantano home page and notice that the most prominent slogans on the page are "Get the most of your readings" and "Let's get the most of our readings, together." Do you think anyone at Mantano is aware that these phrases are borderline gibberish to native English speakers?

[ghostyjack]

Originally Posted by taosaur

I just swung by the Mantano home page and notice that the most prominent slogans on the page are "Get the most of your readings" and "Let's get the most of our readings, together." Do you think anyone at Mantano is aware that these phrases are borderline gibberish to native English speakers?

Well they are french, so english isn't their native language.

When I was helping them with the beta of the cloud syncing service, I had to point out numerous issues (language, spelling and grammar) with the website. When I pointed these out, they corrected them.

So, unless someone point it out to them, they may not be aware of the issue.

[Crusader]

I see they've got a new update out. I hope this fixes the bug where the app doesn't remember the last page read. That was getting on my nerves.

[Jean-Marie]

Hello dear all,

Thanks a lot to Taosaur & Ghostyjack for their notification about our tagline problem. Yes we are french, I apologize for the english grammar which may sometimes occur throughout our communication. We are working hard in order to get the resources to fix this communication problem but for the time being this is still an open issue.

What's wrong with "Together, let's get the most of our readings" ? Should we write "get the most out of" ? I found that both were correct but maybe this is not true ?

Is there a bad pun in this tagline ?

By the way, I have the pleasure to announce a few things:

• We have redefined our product line as follows
• We have relased a first sharing option in Mantano Cloud.

Here are the details:

1/ The new product line is the following:

• Mantano Reader Premium remains our "flagship product", including all the features that you already know (TTS, Notes, online/offline dictionaries,...). This is an app for very intensive readers, scholars and professionals.
  
• Mantano Reader Essentials is a simplified product which provides less features and targets people who basically just want to read. Compared to the Essentials version, the Premium contains the following features:
  
  • The magnifier which provides more comfort for adjusting the text selections
  • A "My Notes" tab which allows to organize your notes/annotations or prepare revision sheets(useful for students, researchers or professionals)
  • Text To Speech
  • Graphical notes
  • Standalone notes (not attached to a book)
  • The ability to look up words in an offline dictionary
  • The ability to add notes to a page of a book (Essentials only allows to add text notes attached to highlights)
  • The ability to configure the gestures and key mappings (in the Settings)
• Mantano Reader Lite, which is similar to the Essentials version, except that:
  • It contains ads
  • It does not have the "highlight mode", which allows to make many highlights quickly (without having to wait for the long press for each highlight)
  • It does not allow to edit the themes while reading Epub files.

The Mantano Reader Free becomes unsupported. Happy users of it are encouraged to choose amongst the new products.

2/ The new Sharing feature in Mantano Cloud

We started by a simple function: a user can now share a book and the related annotations with contacts. To share a book:

• Click on the small "Share" icon close to the book cover in the Library
• Select a set of contacts or enter their emails;
• They will receive an email to notify them that you want to share a book with them;
• They can accept or reject, from their personal space on the "Mantano Cloud" website;
• Those whodo not have a Mantano Cloud account yet will be prompted to create one;
• When one of your contacts accepts a book:
  • If this book is already in his Library in the cloud, the annotations will be shared: you will see each other's annotations;
  • If this book isn't yet in his personal Library, it is inserted inside and it remains accessible forever, even if you remove this book from your library.

This sharing allows to share DRM-free ebooks as well as DRM protected books. However:

• If your contact already has the book, it will work as described above: the annotations will be shared and you will see each other's annotations;
  
• If your contact doesn't own the book yet, he will be able to download your copy but of course he will get a DRM error message when trying to open it for the first time. If he purchases the book, then, again, of course he will be able to read it (this is rather normal...) and the related annotations will be shared.

This is hopefully the beginning of a whole set of sharing options. Our roadmap includes features such as:

• creating groups, which can be extremely useful for teachers, for example;
• sharing specific annotations or sets of annotations with specific contacts (individuals or groups).

We will also keep improving the web interface, and provide handy browser extensions such as "Send to my Library" contextual menu items.

Lastly, @Crusader: yes, we have fixed this boring problem in the latest release of Mantano Reader Premium, Essentials and Lite !

Thank you again for you support, and I apologize again for the sometimes gibberish english, I feel like a beginner in english now !

Best regards,

Jean-Marie

[ghostyjack]

Hi Jean-Marie, thanks for getting back to us.

The Phrase "Together, let's get the most of our readings", by itself is fine, but I think it is wrong in the context it is being used.

The problem I think stems around the use of the word "readings". It's not used commonly in day-to-day english and if frequently used for someone who is going to read something aloud to a group of other people. An example being something read out to people at a funeral or a wedding, such as a section from the bible or a poem.

As this is reading software that will normally be used for a person who is reading to themselves and not out alout to others, it just doesn't feel right.

You could trying something like "Together, let's get the most of our books", as this makes it a bit more understandable. Although this app is aimed at a wider audience than just fiction readers, you might want to find a word other that books that also covers the reference/technical books material as well.

Either that, or try a different phase altogether.

Edit: Just noticed in the phrase that it looks like you are missing a word as well, could do with inserting "out" between "most" and "of". This would read as "Together, let's get the most out of our readings". This then makes my above comments a bit more valid as without the word "out" in the phrase, it doesn't make much sense.