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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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Second that
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

ereader

I know this has been asked before but I still can't find what I.m looking for,I want to be able to read books on my HD and have tried a few ereaders but they either seem to be tied to book sellers or don't work.Does HTC do one for HD.
Perhaps someone knows a good one.
Don

Mobipocket, perfect app, download the Creator to convert your books into the format and even use the Mobipocket reader as a library.

Thanks for the reply ,where do I get the Creator from ,tried googleing.I am not very good at this.
Found it ,but don't know how to use it .could you give me some pointers please.
Don

I've found Freda to be the best.

That's the one,thanks very much Lurkist.
Don

For Mobipocket look this site: http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/default.asp?Language=EN If you download and install creator on Your PC, you can import pdf,word, txt and more docs, books from your PC libary. The creator automaticly create a .prc file from them and if you connect a pda via activesync send it to the device. It is very comfortable by reading even large books (harry potter) but also better reading .pdf docs.
And it is free.

Best App for Reading EPUB?

Hey all, what's the best ebook app that supports local libraries?

Aldiko Book Reader is quite nice. Otherwise if the file isn't too large I personally like to upload to Google Play Books.
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I use the Nook app for my .epub e-books. Pretty decent app, relatively polished UI, and the right price (free).
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Most of the readers I've tried from the Play Store are very good (Moon+ Reader, Nook, Kindle, FBRreader, Overdrive), but a few years ago I purchased Aldiko Pro and it has been perfect for me. There is a free version as well. I like the controls and options, the bookshelf looks nice and I've never once had any problem with it. I particularly like being able to make shortcuts to the books I'm currently reading, so I have an icon of the book cover to click on that will open the app and take me right to the last page I read.
It was one of the first apps I installed on my Nexus 7, I've probably read over a hundred books with it and I use it almost daily. But almost all the readers are free or have a free version, try them all! Read a chapter or two with each one and see which is most appealing to you personally.

I used to use the Nook reader until PlayBooks gained the ability to upload your ePubs to your Google account. Now i use PlayBooks for my reading. Like the fact that it syncs where you left off, bookmarks, markers etc across your devices.

Mantano is the absolute best epub reader I have found. There is a free version on the play store. Try it out. It also does pdf.
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moon reader?? it haz that 3d page flip that look like real books.. XD
again.. why am i here?? i dont even have an n7,, :silly:

LordLugard said:
I used to use the Nook reader until PlayBooks gained the ability to upload your ePubs to your Google account. Now i use PlayBooks for my reading. Like the fact that it syncs where you left off, bookmarks, markers etc across your devices.
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This. There is no better option than Google's own app - smooth, syncs progress and bookmarks, syncs the actual epub (after uploading it to your account), and best of all free.

ctbear said:
This. There is no better option than Google's own app - smooth, syncs progress and bookmarks, syncs the actual epub (after uploading it to your account), and best of all free.
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Test out Play Books. Once your collection is uploaded, the syncing is great between your devices.

I say Nook And Aldiko are best Have Tried Them Myself you can download from play store or google it!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
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I'm a huge fan of mantano. It open PDFs and epubs flawlessly. There is a free version available so give it a try.
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ctbear said:
This. There is no better option than Google's own app - smooth, syncs progress and bookmarks, syncs the actual epub (after uploading it to your account), and best of all free.
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+1 now that you can upload your epubs or pdfs, play book is my recommendation. Manteno would be second. I find the formatting better on play book than manteno. The syncing between devices just seals the deal for play book. Manteno charges to sync between devices...

LordLugard said:
I used to use the Nook reader until PlayBooks gained the ability to upload your ePubs to your Google account. Now i use PlayBooks for my reading. Like the fact that it syncs where you left off, bookmarks, markers etc across your devices.
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PS - the Nook app does all of this also. for free (unlike some of the others..obviously PlayBooks is free as well).
The thing I like about Nook over PlayBooks is that Nook gives me more text formatting options. Mainly, the ability to change margin widths. I have found this especially useful for reading some e-books.
Most of the big name readers have these sorts of additional text formatting options, however some charge for sync capabilities, etc.
I personally think that the actual contents of my books look the best in the Nook app (once you play around and get the formatting setup how you want it) and with free syncing between all of your devices, it's all win.
To each their own, obviously.
Cheers
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I love moon reader easy to use and really customizable
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I highly recommend Google Play Books for epubs as well. It is very nice looking, smooth, and the sync feature is great. I also LOVE the look of the widget, it is the centerpiece of my home screen. My only complaint is no support for my comics in cbr format, and also it seems that pdf pages (both pdf books and cbr->pdf conversions) load rather slowly at times.
But if you will solely be using epub, you can't go wrong here. You may have problems uploading converted epubs though.

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I love moon reader easy to use and really customizable
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Yeah, Moon Reader is great, and Moon+ Reader is 50% off!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyersoft.moonreaderp

I seem to have a lot of problems with the epubs I have uploaded to play books, they take forever to load. I usually don't bother waiting. Aldiko and Moon+ are both good options. I also highly recommend aldiko sync to sync between devices.

I also tried a few different EPUB readers but Aldiko was the one that stayed my Nexus.

So I'm playing with Google Play Books, and generally I like it. One problem however, on several books it won't adjust the font size. I can change the setting but there's no change in the display. Any thoughts? Is the epub file hard-coded or something? Thanks...

I've tested many epub software and my favorite by far is moon+ reader. You can configure it to be perfect for you. The other soft doesn't have near as much setting to adjuste your reading to be as confortable as possible. But yeah you will have to take 10/20 minutes the first time configuring it (and have a few more tweak later too to do to be perfect). And that the only soft that render all my epub perfectly; during my testing I find some reader cut some text for no reason (aldiko in particuliar) but maybe that have been patched.
Sorry for my not so good english

Looking for a PDF Reader

Hello guys
I'm looking for an app for my Nexus with some kind of way to open multiple PDFs at the same time and change between them quickly, for studying purposes. Adobe Reader doesn't do this. Do you know any app with this function?
Thanks

Duarteman said:
Hello guys
I'm looking for an app for my Nexus with some kind of way to open multiple PDFs at the same time and change between them quickly, for studying purposes. Adobe Reader doesn't do this. Do you know any app with this function?
Thanks
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Try iannotate
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Duarteman said:
Hello guys
I'm looking for an app for my Nexus with some kind of way to open multiple PDFs at the same time and change between them quickly, for studying purposes. Adobe Reader doesn't do this. Do you know any app with this function?
Thanks
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If you are only looking for PDF reader, then just go with any really. All are good!
However, you are looking for PDF reader + epub, mobi etc support go for moon+reader. It has speech and many cool options
If you are looking for PDF+ Office documents, just try office365
I am using both apps (paid versions) and there is not any app better than them in my opinion. Free ones are as great but Office365 free version won't let you edit documents.

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Try iannotate
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I tried iannotate and it really has a nice system of tabs to open multiple PDF files and that was what I needed. But the App itself is a little buggy and not very fluent (can't even compare to Adobe). Do you know any other?
Thank you

Radaeel pdf , not sure if its compatible if you get it from playstore, but google the apk if u can't get in the playstore

QuickOffice by Google ?
Maybe OfficeSuite (not free)...
I never used a multi-pdf viewer so I couldn't really tell

Kingsoft Office?

Duarteman said:
Hello guys
I'm looking for an app for my Nexus with some kind of way to open multiple PDFs at the same time and change between them quickly, for studying purposes. Adobe Reader doesn't do this. Do you know any app with this function?
Thanks
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You need EBookDroid.
HTML:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ebookdroid
It's a great PDF reader, and I use it to read my university books all the time, jumping from one book to another.
I paid for Moon+ Reader Pro in the past, but I've found EBookDroid works a lot better.

I like Foxit.

I tried EbookDroid and even though I liked it, it doesn't have a decent way to change quickly between PDFs. I think I'm gonna stick to iAnotate.

just go for adobe reader.

Try RepliGo Reader, ability to add notes and stuff
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I read a lot pdf's on my nexus and i tried most of pdfs readers and i can truly say that mantano reader is the best for big pdf files

Mantano is slow as hell and does not support in pdf files included page numbers.

I have to read an insane amount for school, so i personally use Moon Reader or Foxit for those few PDF's that Moon Reader has a problem rendering. Kingsoft is nice for just reading but doesnt have any good markup options like Moon or Foxit. Moon is pretty feature rich and has options for both day and night time reading to reduce strain on your eyes which is helpful if you have to go late into the night.
Cheers

I like Adobe Reader but the tabs system is really important for me. I study engineering and I need to have one PDF with exercises opened and another PDF with the theory, that's the way I'm used to work with my computer and I bought a tablet mainly because it's very light and portable.
The ability to write notes and underline words/sentences on PDFs isn't very important to me, I don't use it.

ezPDF reeder is the best on android, and 10% of GoodReeader on IOS
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I tried a lot of PDF readers only ones with both good text reflow and reversed/nightview ifound were ezPDF Reader (paid) and Adobe Reader. I think paid Moon+ has that too with PDFI. For epub it is by far the best imo and I am consisering buyong pro.
In my opinion every reader should have reversed/nightview for when one has to read much or at night.So ridiculous that so much pdf readers don"t have that or automatic resizing text to fit screen They shouldn't even be called a reader-app.
In EzPDF Reader you can switch easy to other pdf's via recent documents. It will remember the pages of all the pdf's where you were at. If that is what you mean. I like it a lot it has a lot of options. .
But if Moon + pro is as good with pdf as with epub I might switch in the near future. (It has better animated page flip with epub than Ez with pdf also by the way).

try SmartQ Reader.it's the best PDF reader that i ever used
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Duarteman said:
I tried EbookDroid and even though I liked it, it doesn't have a decent way to change quickly between PDFs.
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I think EBookDroid's tab interface is very decent.

Make a PDF OCRable

Hi everyone, so using more and more the tab s4 I find I could really use an app for android (but I'll even take it for mac if that's the only way) to make OCR out of a pdf.
I would need this in "2 versions", first with handwriting, some way to make OCR out of my handwriting (I already have the pdfs ready, they're just not searchable) and second to make another not handwritten pdf , searchable.
I tried looking online but I could only find apps that let you snap a photo and then make it searchable but I already have an app that does this, I can already make pdfs I just need to make the ones that I already have, searchable.
Really hope someone can help me thanks!

JohnPyn said:
Hi everyone, so using more and more the tab s4 I find I could really use an app for android (but I'll even take it for mac if that's the only way) to make OCR out of a pdf.
I would need this in "2 versions", first with handwriting, some way to make OCR out of my handwriting (I already have the pdfs ready, they're just not searchable) and second to make another not handwritten pdf , searchable.
I tried looking online but I could only find apps that let you snap a photo and then make it searchable but I already have an app that does this, I can already make pdfs I just need to make the ones that I already have, searchable.
Really hope someone can help me thanks!
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For searchable PDF's. I didn't read this so I don't know if this is what you're looking for. https://techwiser.com/5-best-ocr-app-for-android/
Adobe Acrobat Reader has a search function.

bill-e said:
For searchable PDF's. I didn't read this so I don't know if this is what you're looking for. https://techwiser.com/5-best-ocr-app-for-android/
Adobe Acrobat Reader has a search function.
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I'm afraid it's not what I needed. Those let you create ocr pdfs. My problem is that I already have the pdf, both hand written and not and I need to make them ocr

JohnPyn said:
I'm afraid it's not what I needed. Those let you create ocr pdfs. My problem is that I already have the pdf, both hand written and not and I need to make them ocr
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The Adobe reader will read your current PDF's and search through them....solves at least part of your problem.

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The Adobe reader will read your current PDF's and search through them....solves at least part of your problem.
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Adobe acrobat you mean? That's the only one I couple find but it has a monthly fee sadly

JohnPyn said:
Adobe acrobat you mean? That's the only one I couple find but it has a monthly fee sadly
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So I'm awaiting delivery of my Tab S4 but I did download this on to my Moto Z3 phone today at no cost and it searches PDF's. May be different for the Tab.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.reader

bill-e said:
So I'm awaiting delivery of my Tab S4 but I did download this on to my Moto Z3 phone today at no cost and it searches PDF's. May be different for the Tab.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.reader
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Indeed that makes a pdf searchable but it has a subscription fee. And it's not that low. I was looking for something that was free or at least pay once can use forever

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Indeed that makes a pdf searchable but it has a subscription fee. And it's not that low. I was looking for something that was free or at least pay once can use forever
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That is interesting, they must charge differently for tablets. On my phone the search is a basic feature with the subscription for the upgraded tools. We'll see what happens to me at the end of the month when I get the S4.