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

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by AlexBell

Thanks, Blossom

I should have mentioned an added complication: I'm using Mantano in conjunction with the Calibre Companion, so it's making it even more complex.

I love Calibre Companion and use it too. I prefer Moon+ though to read with.

[AlexBell]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I love Calibre Companion and use it too. I prefer Moon+ though to read with.

Each one to his or her taste, I suppose. I had a very bad experience with Moon+ and a complex ebook with (among other things) long line poetry. The ebook with Moon+ looked nothing remotely like the same ebook on my Sony and iPad, even when I turned off the default option to ignore the publisher's style sheet.

I very much prefer a reader which honours the style sheet.

[Blossom]

Agreed Mantano is best for complex styles. It's the only one that displays external stylesheets correctly. However all I read is novels so I don't need it to.

My problem with Mantano is font sizes. Either too big or too small and it doesn't have time left to read feature which is a must for me.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by AlexBell

Each one to his or her taste, I suppose. I had a very bad experience with Moon+ and a complex ebook with (among other things) long line poetry. The ebook with Moon+ looked nothing remotely like the same ebook on my Sony and iPad, even when I turned off the default option to ignore the publisher's style sheet.

I very much prefer a reader which honours the style sheet.

Couldn't agree more. Accurately rendering a book according to the formatting instructions in it is the entire raison d'être of any book reader. If it fails in this, everything else is irrelevant.

[DiapDealer]

That's my number one beef with Moon+ as well. The ability for the user to override the formatting in just about every way possible is all well and good--it's a great feature in fact (especially for shoddily produced books). But it's a real shame that turning off all of the overrides in Moon's settings doesn't result in the base-line publisher defaults. It's a deal-breaker for me.

[Moe The Cat]

DiapDealer, did you use the "Preview with publisher formatting" button?

Originally Posted by Moe The Cat

In the "Miscellaneous" settings, there is a option to "Show 'Preview with publisher formatting' Button on top bar." If you check this setting and then go back to your book, there is a new button in the top right that toggles the publisher's formatting on and off.

Does that feature not show the base-line publisher formatting?

[DiapDealer]

It's close, but still no cigar. And what's worse, the 'Preview with Publisher Formatting' button switches to a weird, vertical scrolling thing instead of the normal 'paging.' Preview With is clearly designed as more of a Take a Quick Peek type of thing (hence the name 'preview'), rather than Read with publisher defaults.

To me, Moon+ is great for those who are looking to completely homogenize their reading experience from book-to-book. I, on the other hand, only want to tweak the publisher version if there's something so distracting about it that I just can't continue. In which case I'll just edit the epub directly to fix that (edits which Moon+ may or may not display properly, I might add).

[Barty]

Formatting is important to me too. I want only to choose my base my font size and face, background and foreground color, and page margin. To me, those settings should be left to the user agent anyway and not set by the book (except maybe for font family, which should be overrideable).

An ebook does not have the usual indicators of quality (beside the content itself) like cover, paper stock, typography, binding, etc. It only has: editing (no typo etc) and formatting. Even in a simple novel, proper formatting gives clear indication of chapters, scene breaks, block quotes, etc and makes you feel like you are reading a book and not just a long series of paragraphs. It's not good when an ebook reader breaks or strips the formatting.

[jersysman]

Originally Posted by Blossom

You have to import your books each time.

What I am using is Calibre Companion with it. I let CC organize my books there is no need to import anything into the Reader app. CC syncs with Calibre as you add the books through a WiFi connection I just use Mantano and Moon+ as Readers and ignore the bookshelf part of the app.

When I want to read a book I open CC and then choose the book and hit read it then asks me which app to read with seeing I have two eReader apps on it and after I choose which one it opens the book in that app.

I use the exact same setup as you with the exact same readers. I have also moved from Mantano to Moon+ because of the read times, etc.

[DiapDealer]

Version 2.4.8 is out. Dropbox integration!

[Moe The Cat]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Version 2.4.8 is out. Dropbox integration!

I see you can access your library on Dropbox, but can you sync your reading position with Dropbox as well?

[DiapDealer]

To be honest, I have no idea. I don't use Mantano's sync feature. I read on one device.

Hopefully someone who uses the feature will come along soon and can fill you in on those details.

[Teknikal]

Originally Posted by Moe The Cat

I see you can access your library on Dropbox, but can you sync your reading position with Dropbox as well?

No which kind of defeats the purpose, you can browse your dropbox and import books so nothing you couldn't do with just the dropbox app beforehand.
I think they won't integrate dropbox properly because they want to sell their mantano sync which doesn't even work for me it's easily my number one flaw with Mantano.

My advice if you want proper dropbox usage get Fabrik Pro it's not as nice a reader but at least it doesn't charge you for something as simple as syncing and it works.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Teknikal

No which kind of defeats the purpose, you can browse your dropbox and import books so nothing you couldn't do with just the dropbox app beforehand.
I think they won't integrate dropbox properly because they want to sell their mantano sync which doesn't even work for me it's easily my number one flaw with Mantano.

My advice if you want proper dropbox usage get Fabrik Pro it's not as nice a reader but at least it doesn't charge you for something as simple as syncing and it works.

Moon+ syncs with Dropbox. I was using Mantano Sync till it corrupted the books. I paid $10 a year so I hope they do work the kinks out.

[Moe The Cat]

I have used Fabrik Pro in the past and currently use Moon+ Pro. In both cases, it was the ability to sync with Dropbox that drew me to the app. I was hoping Montano would give me a third option for Dropbox syncing, but I guess not.