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[Q] Can anyone recomend a good RSS reader?

Hi,
I've tried a number of them so far and none of them are what I want:
gReader for whatever reason deletes a post as soon as you've read it return to the list of articles it didn't do that until this version and I can't figure out how to turn that off, there's no OPML import or export and it seems to not find a single URL I feed it for any new valid feed.
I've tried others but so far none has done what I need it to do, just download feeds, and images, if associated, have links showing, be customizable in that it can be organized into folders for feeds, not take over the entire device while sycing as gReader now all of a sudden does. it's become a huge CPU hog while syncing.
Any and all suggestiosn would be most appreciated.

NewsRob is what I've been using since I got my first Android phone, sounds like it should do what you're looking for and it can sync with Google Reader as well.

datajosh said:
NewsRob is what I've been using since I got my first Android phone, sounds like it should do what you're looking for and it can sync with Google Reader as well.
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Funny, just installed it. How do you import or export an OPML file using this application though?

I have looked extensively for a good rss reader. I found Newsroom to be the best out of all of them. Personal opinion, but give it a try. Its functional, pretty, and works well.

superevilllama said:
I have looked extensively for a good rss reader. I found Newsroom to be the best out of all of them. Personal opinion, but give it a try. Its functional, pretty, and works well.
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I appreciate the recommendation, only issue with Newsroom is that it doesn't have gReader support. there is a four-month tech support thread that has the devs at the trileet company saying because the back end of Newsroomis proprietary and google reader isn't, that they would lose major functionality.
If they can't support google feeds then it's just not worth it.

I think gReader works great. I was one of the people who pushed for 2 way syncing and he made it happen. As for the article disappearing after you read it and press back, it's been like that for a while. If you want to save it, mark it as unread or star it. This is exactly the same way it works in Google Reader. I add or subtract rss feeds maybe once a year so I don't care how well gReader does it. I can just wait till I get to a real computer and do it there.

I use Greed (Lite) - free in the market. It integrates nicely with google reader, has the ability to follow links, and filter read/unread. Also has widgets that can be placed on your homescreens. No importing/exporting required... just provide your google account info and it syncs all of your feeds/folders.
Its worth a try... doesnt cost anything

Been using FeedR. It does cost some money, but its a very good reader with Google Reader support. Works fast, and looks great.

prjkthack said:
Been using FeedR. It does cost some money, but its a very good reader with Google Reader support. Works fast, and looks great.
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I use FeedR too and agree that it is very good.
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ydnandy said:
I use Greed (Lite) - free in the market. It integrates nicely with google reader, has the ability to follow links, and filter read/unread. Also has widgets that can be placed on your homescreens. No importing/exporting required... just provide your google account info and it syncs all of your feeds/folders.
Its worth a try... doesnt cost anything
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I third that
greed lite is nice

I currently use gReader. The problem you're describing about articles disappearing is that the app is set on default too only show new articles. The circle icon toggles between showing new articlesand showing all articles. Just toggle that and it will give you back your read articles. The check mark icon is to mark all articles as read. After I'm done skipping through the articles I don't want too read, I mark off all the remaining articles as read so it doesn't show up anymore

ive been using pulse and feedr. and so far. feedr seems to be the best one ive tried

Flipboard for android

In case anyone didn't see this on engadget, here is the link to ripped version of flipboard from galaxy s III
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1644212
Not mine, just sharing the link.
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I played with it a little today, it needs some work. So far it doesn't seem like anything new. Is it supposed to be a whole new social network? It looks like its just trying to be another place to access existing sites like facebook and twitter. I tried adding some news feeds but it couldn't about half of those I searched for. The feeds I did add seemed impractical, 2/3 of the screen is an image, with every headline cut off after about 6 words. Flashy but definitely not efficient. I'll stick with Google Reader for now.

Google Currents Love!

Just downloaded Google Currents for the market and its really a great application. If you don't know what it is, it's a news/magazine application with tons of different publishers and a beautiful interface. If you haven't checked it out yet I would definitely recommend it!!!
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I love Google currents. I have been using it since the first update when they fixed the horrid battery drain. Since then it is a great app. I rank it right up there with Pocket (Formerly read it later)
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R0CKSTAR3N3RGY said:
Just downloaded Google Currents for the market and its really a great application. If you don't know what it is, it's a news/magazine application with tons of different publishers and a beautiful interface. If you haven't checked it out yet I would definitely recommend it!!!
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Love GC. Unfortunately it runs in the background an awful lot.
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Prefer Flipboard
I definitely prefer Flipboard to Currents both because of it being better about not running in the background and because its UI is MUCH cleaner and snappier. Flipboard is by far the best aggregate news application I've ever found...
Check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flipboard.app&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd

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Love GC. Unfortunately it runs in the background an awful lot.
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That's why I turn off the syncing.
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I like currents mainly for the interface. The newest version seems to be a lot better about running all the time. I have it set to sync and I still get great battery and performance.
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If only they could truly offer full reader integration
Google currents, visually, offer a better reading view of articles (although on certain blogs, it skips pages), I'm disappointed that it doesn't offer a complete Google experience in terms of it's ability to pull from your Reader account. I use Google Reader for all my reading content and just don't understand why Google would release a product that doesn't do what the other apps do - syncing of read and starred articles because I don't like having to go into the Reader app itself or on the web and click "mark all as read."
Flipboard on the other hand, does have a seamless Reader integration system but, I don't like how it aggregates all of the reader items into one feed. I have a time period set for when I read certain articles (news in the morning, tech news in the mid-afternoon, etc.) it's only effective if you don't have a lot of sources in your reader account. Most of the sites offered by Flip I have in my Reader account so separately adding them is redundant.
If only one of the two can make that happen, I'm stuck with the default Reader app. *Sigh*
But if you don't use Google Reader, then either one is excellent, but I favor Flip because it's tad bit faster in performance compared to Currents and it's better integrated read it later services (I use Pocket).

I've had it pull from my reader since I've had it. Under add subscriptions at the bottom of the categories is Google reader. When you do into that category it shows all your reader feeds. Or it used too. I've used it for a long time and did that when I first installed it.
Edit. Just checked, it's still there.
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love it too,but a little bit laggy dont know why in 4.1
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I have used currents since its inception and love it. When flipboard came out I thought I would see what all the rage was so I got it. I put a lit of the same feeds on it as I get on currents and although it is pretty and all that, I find that flipboard will nor get every story from a site that currents gets. When I check gizmodo or cnet or space.com on both readers, flipboard will be missing several articles that currents picks up.

I have installed on both my Galaxy Tab and phone, it's great.

arbearce said:
I have installed on both my Galaxy Tab and phone, it's great.
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agreed. its even nicer on my gtab.

scarmon25 said:
I've had it pull from my reader since I've had it. Under add subscriptions at the bottom of the categories is Google reader. When you do into that category it shows all your reader feeds. Or it used too. I've used it for a long time and did that when I first installed it.
Edit. Just checked, it's still there.
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I was more referring to syncing of unread and read articles back to reader instead of just pulling my feeds.

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I was more referring to syncing of unread and read articles back to reader instead of just pulling my feeds.
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Ah. I see. So when you read an article in currents it marks it as read in Google reader. Yeah. I can see how that would be annoying. I personally spend more time on my phone then on my PC so I don't have that issue. But not everyone does that.
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I lovemeh readers too. Gonna try currents thanks to you guys. I Use flip board sometimes but find that some stories don't come through. Taptu on the other hand is my favorite reader by far. Way better than pulse IMO. Really like the dark theme on it too. Googlereader,fb, and twitter pulls well on it too.
Just in case anyone wants to try that one out
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Best RSS Reader App

I'm wondering what RSS reader/google reader type apps you guys are using?
I have gReader Pro, Reader HD, FeedR, and NewsRob Pro. I have already also used the default google reader app and Just Reader and a few others. I still haven't found a google reader app that looks and works great. The main issues I have with the listed reader apps are that most don't display images properly, as in 70% of the screen is for the feed but pictures from flickr rss feeds or tumblr only show up as a small box fitting 10% of the screen; tons of unused space. Would be nice for an RSS reader app that smartly adjusted pictures for optimal screen usage.
Wish they'd make Reeder for android, that rss app is nearly perfect.

gReader Pro. Best interface/everything.

Personally I love Reader HD
to each their own.

Reader HD or the official Reader App for me. Maybe flip board when it gets optimized for tablets.
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What don't you like about JustReader? My go to tablet reader. Pictures show up pretty good, though not perfect. As for why an app doesn't do what you want it to do, trust me, it's a stupidly hard thing to do. You'd think it would be built in to android to make that an option, but by the time you are allowed to measure pixel size, all the automatic calls have passed. It takes some rewriting of how views measure themselves. I went through that with my Read It Later app I was working on before I canned it when Pocket came out.
For the apps that overcame that issue (JustReader being one of them) you then have the problem of online pictures being small. A 320x480 picture would be about 2.7" diagonally on a 7" 1280*800 screen. If you look at a feed like The Verge that uses large pictures, you will seem them fill edge to edge (on JustReader). However, other places use much smaller pictures. Then you have the problem that a lot of places send smaller pictures over RSS. For example, LifeHacker uses ~600x400 pictures on their website, but half that size on their RSS page. I will say I wish Just Reader handled images a little better in that it still centered the picture above the text (not hard to do, but I guess that was the devs design choice), but it scales pictures up to, but not past the devices native resolution, but it cannot magically make pictures higher res. None of these can. The alternative is super pixelated larger pictures.
*I don't mean to sound like a JustReader fanboy, it's simply the app I use and have experience with. I'm sure many of the other apps handle this the same way. I also feel that this is the most "Reeder" like app I've used. In fact, I prefer it due to the more customizable swipe gestures.

E_man5112 said:
What don't you like about Just Reader? My go to tablet reader. Pictures show up pretty good, though not perfect. As for why an app doesn't do what you want it to do, trust me, it's a stupidly hard thing to do. You'd think it would be built in to android to make that an option, but by the time you are allowed to measure pixel size, all the automatic calls have passed. It takes some rewriting of how views measure themselves. I went through that with my Read It Later app I was working on before I canned it when Pocket came out.
For the apps that overcame that issue (Just Reader being one of them) you then have the problem of online pictures being small. A 320x480 picture would be about 2.7" diagonally on a 7" 1280*800 screen. If you look at a feed like The Verge that uses large pictures, you will seem them fill edge to edge (on Just Reader). However, other places use much smaller pictures. Then you have the problem that a lot of places send smaller pictures over RSS. For example, LifeHacker uses ~600x400 pictures on their website, but half that size on their RSS page. I will say I wish Just Reader handled images a little better in that it still centered the picture above the text (not hard to do, but I guess that was the devs design choice), but it scales pictures up to, but not past the devices native resolution, but it cannot magically make pictures higher res. None of these can. The alternative is super pixelated larger pictures.
*I don't mean to sound like a Just Reader fanboy, it's simply the app I use and have experience with. I'm sure many of the other apps handle this the same way. I also feel that this is the most "Reeder" like app I've used. In fact, I prefer it due to the more customizable swipe gestures.
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Is Just Reader and app, or do you mean Google Reader?
If you mean Google Reader, does it work with podcasts?

ace7196 said:
Is Just Reader and app, or do you mean Google Reader?
If you mean Google Reader, does it work with podcasts?
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I mean JustReader (no space, my bad). It claims podcast support in the free version, but I've never done that. Always kept podcasts and rss seperate.

gReaderPro. Best RSS reader available for Android from the functionality point of view, if you subscribe to dozens of feeds like I do it is really the way to go. If your RSS needs are more casual stuff like Flipboard and Currents or Pulse may suffice (prettier to look at).

ace7196 said:
gReader Pro. Best interface/everything.
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I agree.

Greader Pro. Its the best I've used. The layout is good, it's fast and it's reliable.
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You guys not using google current? You could import your rss from your google reader directly in the apps itself, pretty awesome

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You guys not using google current? You could import your rss from your google reader directly in the apps itself, pretty awesome
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If only it had 2 way sync. As it is, I don't want to see an article in both currents, and google reader, such as on the desktop.

E_man5112 said:
If only it had 2 way sync. As it is, I don't want to see an article in both currents, and google reader, such as on the desktop.
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oh right, that is one issue, didnt thought of it as i dont always read everything :laugh:

E_man5112 said:
What don't you like about JustReader? My go to tablet reader. Pictures show up pretty good, though not perfect. As for why an app doesn't do what you want it to do, trust me, it's a stupidly hard thing to do. You'd think it would be built in to android to make that an option, but by the time you are allowed to measure pixel size, all the automatic calls have passed. It takes some rewriting of how views measure themselves. I went through that with my Read It Later app I was working on before I canned it when Pocket came out.
For the apps that overcame that issue (JustReader being one of them) you then have the problem of online pictures being small. A 320x480 picture would be about 2.7" diagonally on a 7" 1280*800 screen. If you look at a feed like The Verge that uses large pictures, you will seem them fill edge to edge (on JustReader). However, other places use much smaller pictures. Then you have the problem that a lot of places send smaller pictures over RSS. For example, LifeHacker uses ~600x400 pictures on their website, but half that size on their RSS page. I will say I wish Just Reader handled images a little better in that it still centered the picture above the text (not hard to do, but I guess that was the devs design choice), but it scales pictures up to, but not past the devices native resolution, but it cannot magically make pictures higher res. None of these can. The alternative is super pixelated larger pictures.
*I don't mean to sound like a JustReader fanboy, it's simply the app I use and have experience with. I'm sure many of the other apps handle this the same way. I also feel that this is the most "Reeder" like app I've used. In fact, I prefer it due to the more customizable swipe gestures.
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I just retried JustReader and you were right! So far on the Nexus 7 it seems to work the best for what I'm looking for. I spend way too much money on RSS apps lol, but thankfully I already owned JustReader from a few months ago. Thanks man.

Try Freely. Great RSS app much like Flip board. I love it
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is there any RSS app that does not use Google? i use to use News Room, but it seems to be abandoned and is not updated since ICS..

I use Feedly, works great on android and on desktop in Firefox or chrome
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Reader HD isn't just a good rss app it's one of the better android apps I've used. Very slick and just loaded with features. I'm impressed and happy every time I use it.
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nigelw said:
I use Feedly, works great on android and on desktop in Firefox or chrome
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Ditto. Feedly is great on JB, but its frustrating that it doesn't work on ICS. If Google Currents would support the organization of feeds into groups like Google Reader does I'd be all over it.

ReaderHD here, I like the mobilization options.

What are some of the better Ereader apps on Android?

I'm an avid ebook Ereader (ePub specifically) and was looking for some decent Ereader apps for my Nexus 4. I love the iBooks app on my iPad, specifically it's ability to display progress as PAGES in the book, rather than percentages. That just doesn't work for me, so if there was a decent app with a page number progress bar that you guys use, I'd love to hear about it! Thanks!
Update:
Thanks to the users who replied to this thread and sent me in the right direction, I found what I was looking for! While reaching the clean lines and streamlined interface of Google Play Books was a bit out of reach, the two apps that I narrowed it down to in the end were Mantano Reader and Aldiko. They had a nice easy to use interface that was very much in line with the interface that I was looking for, coming here from Apple's iBooks app.
I managed to sync my entire Calibre library effortlessly, using their Calibre Companion App (only $3), so that was a pleasant surprise. I tried the free content server method, but apparently that's not a viable method on Nexus devices because of their lack of some sort of usb storage compatibility (I wasn't completely sure but it just didn't work despite my best efforts).
At that point, I believed it to be a toss up, until I began to import a few of my books in. I discovered the covers were rather off on both, despite the fact I had painstakingly inserted accurate and high quality covers on all my ebooks. I researched why that could be and learned that some apps can only display jpegs as covers, so I went back and converted the epubs back to epub with the option "No SVG Cover" checked in EPUB OUTPUT during conversion. I reloaded the books and it seems like there was one true winner. Aldiko!
Yes, it doesn't have all the options that some of the other readers do, but for me, when I'm reading, I want everything to get out of the way except my paper and my text and for those of you who enjoy reading the way it is with physical books, no shaded progress bars on the bottom and such, try this out!
Thank you for all your help!

talhak91 said:
I'm an avid ebook Ereader (ePub specifically) and was looking for some decent Ereader apps for my Nexus 4. I love the iBooks app on my iPad, specifically it's ability to display progress as PAGES in the book, rather than percentages. That just doesn't work for me, so if there was a decent app with a page number progress bar that you guys use, I'd love to hear about it! Thanks!
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I personally use Mantano Ebook Reader Lite but in the past I used Moon reader and Aldiko...of course Kindle, Nook, Kobe, Google etc each have their own app for their books and you can find alot of free (promotional) books for those @ http://blog.booksontheknob.org/
Calibre is an PC app that can manager your ebook collection between your pc and your phone..it can also convert formats (it doesn't break drm without additional 3rd party apps).

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I personally use Mantano Ebook Reader Lite but in the past I used Moon reader and Aldiko...of course Kindle, Nook, Kobe, Google etc each have their own app for their books and you can find alot of free (promotional) books for those @ http://blog.booksontheknob.org/
Calibre is an PC app that can manager your ebook collection between your pc and your phone..it can also convert formats (it doesn't break drm without additional 3rd party apps).
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I love Calibre! It's what I used to keep my library updated with the proper tags before syncing it all to my iPad. It's great. But okay, Mantano reader, how does that app show progress as you get through a book? Does it do iBooks style page numbers or is it a percentage?

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I love Calibre! It's what I used to keep my library updated with the proper tags before syncing it all to my iPad. It's great. But okay, Mantano reader, how does that app show progress as you get through a book? Does it do iBooks style page numbers or is it a percentage?
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It uses page #'s as you requested....as to whether they are iBook style I have no idea as I don't have any apple devices. A physical "page" may involve you swiping several times before it increments however as a screen does not = a page.

Moon+ Reader Pro is my only one eReader! Constantly improved by the dev, it's perfect!

I highly recommend FBReader. It indicates progress in pages rather than percentage as you required. It has built-in search for free ebooks across multiple catalogues and, best of all as far as I'm concerned, you can select shade of sepia for page colour that is easier on these eyes than that of any other ereader app I've tried.

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I highly recommend FBReader. It indicates progress in pages rather than percentage as you required. It has built-in search for free ebooks across multiple catalogues and, best of all as far as I'm concerned, you can select shade of sepia for page colour that is easier on these eyes than that of any other ereader app I've tried.
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I really like fbreader except it wouldn't open some pdfs. I'm not sure if it supports them to begin with but it's nice to couple books with magazines.
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ludovicien said:
I highly recommend FBReader. It indicates progress in pages rather than percentage as you required. It has built-in search for free ebooks across multiple catalogues and, best of all as far as I'm concerned, you can select shade of sepia for page colour that is easier on these eyes than that of any other ereader app I've tried.
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FBReader is brilliant. It has a lot of customisation options and supports mobi and epub formats. Being able to slide your finger up and down the left side of the page to change brightness is my fav feature.

FBReader is my favorite e-reader by far. I keep Aldiko around for reading PDFs as well.

another vote for Mantano. Works great for a large collection, esp if you've used Calibre to properly tag everything. I read a lot of books that are part of series, so it's nice to have something that correctly sorts everything. Good on both the phone and a tablet.

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Moon+ Reader Pro is my only one eReader! Constantly improved by the dev, it's perfect!
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This is the best full feature reader by far. Right now I'm enjoying Fabrik though, clean and simple.

So many conflicting opinions! I was looking for detailed reviews for said apps but the ones that do exist are such poor reviews and don't even really seem to grasp what differentiates a good ereader from another. Can some of you post some screens of your go to ereader and whether it has, to the best of your knowledge, progress in page numbers and integration with Calibre?
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I just tried out Mantano, Moon+, and FBReader and the latter seems much less polished in comparison. Google Play Books smokes all of them, but Mantano Reader comes pretty close, although it offers less customization than Moon+.

dagaetch said:
another vote for Mantano. Works great for a large collection, esp if you've used Calibre to properly tag everything. I read a lot of books that are part of series, so it's nice to have something that correctly sorts everything. Good on both the phone and a tablet.
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How do you sync your Calibre books with all its tags into Mantano? Is that a premium feature?

Aldiko is the best ebook reader I've found. I like it enough that I bought the premium version which basically adds no features. It properly opens all ebooks I've tried and has a very attractive design with a good feature set.

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How do you sync your Calibre books with all its tags into Mantano? Is that a premium feature?
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It might be a little bit of a hack, but it works. My Calibre folder is in dropbox, and I have Dropsync on my tablet set to monitor that folder. Then I just run import in Mantano every once in a while and everything works perfectly. Not sure if its a premium feature, I did purchase the app but I think its just part of it.

Fabrik is an excellent ereader. There is a free ad version and a paid one w/out adds and a few more features. It is attractive but pretty minimal on the settings side of things but has all the important features that I need: TTS, Decent fonts, and Dropbox syncing built in. Honestly the Dropbox syncing is so simple to set up (it uses oauth), you can pull down any book you have locally and it syncs your last bookmark seamlessly across all your android devices, I have it on my N4 & N10 and it's been working brilliantly. I had to support the dev by getting the paid version, not for everyone but I highly recommend trying it out.

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Fabrik is an excellent ereader. There is a free ad version and a paid one w/out adds and a few more features. It is attractive but pretty minimal on the settings side of things but has all the important features that I need: TTS, Decent fonts, and Dropbox syncing built in. Honestly the Dropbox syncing is so simple to set up (it uses oauth), you can pull down any book you have locally and it syncs your last bookmark seamlessly across all your android devices, I have it on my N4 & N10 and it's been working brilliantly. I had to support the dev by getting the paid version, not for everyone but I highly recommend trying it out.
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Have you gotten text to speech working with 4.2.1 using fabrik?

Yes but with IVONA tts, it wouldn't work with the default. I think acapela works too.
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kchino said:
Yes but with IVONA tts, it wouldn't work with the default. I think acapela works too.
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For having books read to me I use ReadBoox....

I'm a fan of minimalistic ereaders with no concern to cloud storage, so I've used coolreader extensively. Lately I've been using FBreader and am quite a fan.
I might try the other ones mentioned, though. Could use a bit more elegance! Although Moon+ page flips didn't feel responsive at all, for some reason.