Tablet for PDFs

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Araucaria

...Opening Moon itself will let me find books in the tablet's internal storage, but not on the SD card. It would be nice if someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong.

I have the Lenovo Tab2 running Android 6.01 and have MoonPro. When you try and point Moon to a folder, it defaults to internal storage. You should be able to click the back arrow until you see "Path:/". From there, click "mnt" and then "m_external_sd" that should get you into your external SD card.

[Araucaria]

Thanks for the suggestion, Zod, but on mine, once I go back to [Path] :/, and open "mnt", it doesn't have an "m_external_storage", only "sdcard" - by which it means the internal storage.

So I'm still puzzled by the Lenovo directory structure!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Araucaria

Thanks for the suggestion, Zod, but on mine, once I go back to [Path] :/, and open "mnt", it doesn't have an "m_external_storage", only "sdcard" - by which it means the internal storage.

So I'm still puzzled by the Lenovo directory structure!

It's not Lenovo, it's Android/Linux. Any Android tablet will work the same way.

As a test, go to the tablet's settings. Choose Storage and make sure it reflects both internal storage and the SD card. It's always possible that there's an issue with the card.

Once you verify that the tablet does in fact see your SD card, go back to Moon, navigate to Path: /mnt and list what folders show in there. On my tablet under Path: /mnt, well, there's a lot of folders. But the ones that matter are labelled m_external_sd and m_internal_storage

[Alpha o]

In 6.0 and above, the SD card is only for media. *Photos and music will go there automatically unless you format the card for storage. Why books are excluded is beyond me. They store and get read just like people love to look at images.The Android forums were full of complaints about that bit of nonsense as most of us had "apps to sd" installed.

Would it be possible to stick books under Media or is Moon reader stuck on the new convention?

*unless you format for storage.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Alpha o

In 6.0 and above, the SD card is only for media. *Photos and music will go there automatically unless you format the card for storage. Why books are excluded is beyond me. They store and get read just like people love to look at images.The Android forums were full of complaints about that bit of nonsense as most of us had "apps to sd" installed.

Would it be possible to stick books under Media or is Moon reader stuck on the new convention?

*unless you format for storage.

Books are media. I have comics on my SD card on my Lenovo Tab 2 running 6.0.1 and have no issues. Moon has no issues reading from an SD card, though I don't use Moon to read my comics and I don't read books on the tablet.

[Araucaria]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Once you verify that the tablet does in fact see your SD card, go back to Moon, navigate to Path: /mnt and list what folders show in there. On my tablet under Path: /mnt, well, there's a lot of folders. But the ones that matter are labelled m_external_sd and m_internal_storage

Zod - thanks so much for taking the time to help someone who now finds himself very inept.

The tablet definitely sees the external card and if I go into the card via "Settings" (without having opened Moon), I can select the book and then tell the tablet to use Moon to open it.

But when Moon is already open, nothing I have been able to do so far will get it to look at the external SD card. The /mnt folders do not include m_external_SD. What's there is asec, expand, obb, runtime, sdcard, secure and user.

Using my laptop to find what's where on the tablet, I can see that five of my books are stored under "books" on the internal SD (/> mnt> sdcard> Books) along with a directory named "MoonReader" which contains the rest of the books I have on the tablet (other than those on the external card, of course).

I was trying to put all the large PDFs (the current one I'm reading is 304MB) onto the external card, but they really don't seem to be easily accessible there.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Araucaria

Zod - thanks so much for taking the time to help someone who now finds himself very inept.

The tablet definitely sees the external card and if I go into the card via "Settings" (without having opened Moon), I can select the book and then tell the tablet to use Moon to open it.

But when Moon is already open, nothing I have been able to do so far will get it to look at the external SD card. The /mnt folders do not include m_external_SD. What's there is asec, expand, obb, runtime, sdcard, secure and user.

Using my laptop to find what's where on the tablet, I can see that five of my books are stored under "books" on the internal SD (/> mnt> sdcard> Books) along with a directory named "MoonReader" which contains the rest of the books I have on the tablet (other than those on the external card, of course).

I was trying to put all the large PDFs (the current one I'm reading is 304MB) onto the external card, but they really don't seem to be easily accessible there.

Try installing another reader, just to see if it can access your external SD card. Maybe Moon is the issue, though it works for me. I'm using the paid version, Moon Pro. But I don't believe you have to use the paid version to access the external SD card.

You know, reading your message, have you checked out the 'expand' folder?

[Araucaria]

Hi Zod, and thanks again. I have checked the 'expand' folder (though it isn't really a folder, is it? at least, not when I look inside the tablet from my Windows 10 laptop) and it's not there or elsewhere.

I too am using the paid version of Moon but I will give something else a go.

[edit - later]

I downloaded the free version of Bookavi from Mantano, and this manages access to books stored on the external SD card without any problems. So the issue does seem to be at least partly with Moon and not Android or my Lenovo tablet.

If I can work out how to upgrade it, I might go for the paid version of Bookavi to get rid of the very annoying adverts. In other respects it looks like a good piece of software.

[edit - later still]

I think I may now have reconciled what Zod has been saying to what I actually see on my tablet. Instead of calling the SD card "m_external_SD", it is called by some no doubt proprietary internal name, 2785-OEEA. So Moon can in fact find it via / > storage > 2785-OEEA > Books.

Hurrah. I hadn't thought of trying that rather forbiddingly-titled location. Oddly though, it also includes books that are on the internal storage of the tablet. One of the wonders of Android/Linux no doubt.

Thanks once again to Zod and all you other helpful readers.