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Magazine PDF Reader?

Can anyone reccomend a smooth PDF reader for my magazines.
I have all the monthly/weekly magazines in PDF format. Stuff,T3, Zoo,Nuts ect.
The best one I've found is Aldiko. The problem with that is the zoom is jerky. Also you have to re-zoom out to switch page.
Living in the uk we don't get the magazine tab in the play store due to rights crap.
My initial thought after seeing that promo was my magazines would look mint using that reader.
Any help would be appreciated thanks.
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I've used several different ones and my favorite by far is EZ PDF Reader Pro. It really smooth and the UI is very polished. It also allows you to add notes, highlight, add text box, etc.
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Thanks i'll give it a blast when my N7 is recharged.
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Setup HTC Evo like an iPod Touch

Hey,
So I will be leaving the country and have an extra HTC Evo. I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions on how to setup the device to for entertainment with out access to cell signal.
I am looking for suggestion on ROMS, games, apps, and books. Also any other ideas.
Thanks
Jester

Nothing really special....just set the device to airplane mode, so it won't search for service, at least mobile data. You can always download e-books for free online via various site and and read them with the kobo books app; idk if google books will let you load in a downloaded one. For game, better load up some emulators and play some old school favorites...rpgs for long term. Roms...the ICS/jellybean roms all have their bugs, though if you need a 100% working rom, can't go wrong with cm7 on gingerbread.

Jester123 said:
Hey,
So I will be leaving the country and have an extra HTC Evo. I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions on how to setup the device to for entertainment with out access to cell signal.
I am looking for suggestion on ROMS, games, apps, and books. Also any other ideas.
Thanks
Jester
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airplane mode
mxplayer
put some tvs or movies on your sd card
winamp
put some mp3's on your sd card
mantano reader
download some books, books, books, books, books, boooooooks.
Seriously, mantano reader is amazing and you can put like 1000 books on a 8gb sdcard without really noticing it, and the Evo screen is big enough to use as a mini reader. Plus if the book is in epub format than you can swipe up or down on the screen to make the text bigger or smaller and it will format it so you don't have to slide back and forth. If it's in pdf format then you can pinch to zoom or expand.
As for what books, if you're on vacation and looking for some thing light then go with some christopher moore books, if you're looking for something engaging, than anything by murakami, 1q84 is pretty amazing. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus is great too.

There are some apps like navfree which will allow you to use it like a gps as well offline so you can still search when you find yourself on wifi, also using groove ip can allow you to make phone calls over wifi. Using it on my phone now and has yet to fail me
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Reading .pdf/.epub in Google Play Books?

So, I managed to come into some books from a friend. Sadly, they are all in .pdf format. What I want to do is read them on Google Play Books. As of right now, I am using Aldiko Reader (if that's how you spell it), but that thing is so slow when flipping pages, that I can't take it. I really like the Google Play books app, so any way to import these books into the app, so I can read them? Or, any suggestions on good apps for reading .epub and .pdf books?

Fabrik and Mantano.
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i uploaded my pdf's to google drive downloaded adobe reader and it works well,prefer to keep them in the drive as i have 11,000 of them

I recommend to use Amazon Kindle to read PDF... :good:

Epdf is amazing! it is a pay app, but it is the only software out there besides google books that render page flipping so well.

I'd recommend Moon+.
I don't like the flipping pages in any app, (I prefer an instant page change with no animations) but I tried the Moon+ one after seeing ppl here asking about it and it seemed really nice. You can control the speed of the animation I believe.

+1 for Moon+
you currently can't import books into Google Books (boo!)

Am a medical graduate, read lots of pdf as reference, plus doing postgraduation in computer science, have programming and system designing books all in pdf. Always prefer my KINDLE DXG, else RepliGO on my NEXUS 7. RepliGO is way faster than other available options, with fast annotation, cropping feature etc. Though its a paid app

If you have multiple devices, the Fabrik cannot be beaten. There is a free and paid version. There will never be any ads on the reading view with the free version.
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I tried using Fabrik the other day, and it completely crapped out on me, no pictures, no enter dividing lines, it was a bunch of jumbled text, and unable to view my larger files. I think I'll just stick to kindle.

I have tried about 5 different book readers on my nexus 7. All have been good but the nook app seems to look and work best for me with epubs. You have to move your epub files to the my documents folder with a file explorer program like ES file explorer or root explorer. But after that its great. Nice bookshelf screen and fast smooth page turn effects. Works with comic book files also. I just tried a PDF and no luck there.
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I use Moon. Works well with my epubs and pdfs
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I just got myself a Nexus 7 and the first thing I did was to put a lot of good 70's and 80's SF books on it and then I got myself a problem - all the apps were bad. Luckily, after ten apps I've got a Kobo and it's great! Fast, reliable, great for reading EPUB files. All the others mentioned here including Aldiko are no match for it.

I tested a lot of reader, montano is by far the best, especially for pdf because you can even crop and resize them, nice ui too
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Every few days when this topic comes up :banghead: I always suggest the same app; FBReader.

khaytsus said:
Every few days when this topic comes up :banghead: I always suggest the same app; FBReader.
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But it doesn't support PDF, so not what was asked for
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Fabrik

best reader for reading epub ebooks with flip animation
aaaaah you can try "blio reader" it is a nice option, a nicely built app with flip animations and also importing the book

KINDLE
The kindle app is great. just place the pdf's epub's etc into the kindle folder and they appear in the app interface.

I still think montano reader pro is the, especially for PDF files, since 2.38 the rendering on my nexus7 is almost instantly even even with high resolution ones
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[Q] Book annotation with s pen?

In the Samsung guide to the Note 8 there is mention of an ebook reading software that allows users to annotate text using the s pen, make coloured highlights of text, etc. I don't seem to have this on my Note 8. I'm looking to be able to add handwritten notes with the s pen, not text entry annotation as in Play Books, Kindle, etc.
Any suggestions?
I have the UK Wi-Fi only Note 8.

skinnydog said:
In the Samsung guide to the Note 8 there is mention of an ebook reading software that allows users to annotate text using the s pen, make coloured highlights of text, etc. I don't seem to have this on my Note 8. I'm looking to be able to add handwritten notes with the s pen, not text entry annotation as in Play Books, Kindle, etc.
Any suggestions?
I have the UK Wi-Fi only Note 8.
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This feature is exclusive to the "Readers Hub" App that should be installed stock on your note 8.0

intelliriffer said:
This feature is exclusive to the "Readers Hub" App that should be installed stock on your note 8.0
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OK, thanks for that.
Strange though, I don't have that app, and when I download it from the Samsung Apps store, it doesn't have that functionality. Anyone have an .apk they can share?

You can do that with... ezpdf
Best PDF reader with annotations... has Spen compatibility
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skinnydog said:
OK, thanks for that.
Strange though, I don't have that app, and when I download it from the Samsung Apps store, it doesn't have that functionality. Anyone have an .apk they can share?
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well that is strange, as tapping on the screen (when a book is loaded) shows a top menu with a pen icon on left clicking that brings you into pen edit /mode.
You can also try downloading readers hub guide (free) from samsung store in the readers hub and it details almost everything.

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well that is strange, as tapping on the screen (when a book is loaded) shows a top menu with a pen icon on left clicking that brings you into pen edit /mode.
You can also try downloading readers hub guide (free) from samsung store in the readers hub and it details almost everything.
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The answer was that Readers Hub works in this spen-friendly way if you are opening an Epub format book (and maybe others, not tested) but not a PDF. So EzPDF is the annotation solution for PDFs, Readers Hub for Epub.
Thanks all.

skinnydog said:
The answer was that Readers Hub works in this spen-friendly way if you are opening an Epub format book (and maybe others, not tested) but not a PDF. So EzPDF is the annotation solution for PDFs, Readers Hub for Epub.
Thanks all.
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ahh Nice, Didn't knew you were trying to do a pdf. adobe's reader also allows freehand annotations to some degree I think but might be lacking in some departments.

e-book reader with SPen Support Note 2/3
I am in a similar dilemma. This is what I am expecting:
A single e-book reader like moon+ or fabrik that can read both epub and mobi files.
Reader that connects to that specific folder on my Dropbox account which has all of my book collection saved in it.
Automatically scans that Dropbox folder for all the e-books and display them neatly in a shelf of 4 to 5 thumbnails per row just as it would display books that are saved on my phone's internal memory.
Gives me an option to cherry pick a book from my bookshelf. Once selected it should then download it to my device for offline reading and sync all changes to that particular e-book file only once my device is back online (similar to Repligo PDF reader).
Since I am addicted to my SPen, I want to have a similar experience when reading an e-book like I do when reading a paper book. So I would like to be in a position wherein I can not only highlight the text but scribble my own hand written notes as I read along. I then want these notes to be permanently saved on the e-book file being read (similar to Repligo PDF reader). This was possible on Samsung's reader hub app but since that has been integrated with Samsung hub, ability to upload or read your own book saved on the device has been taken away. You can only read what you buy from their store unfortunately. Although, cloud sync was not possible with Reader's Hub too.
Is there a product in the market that meets my above expectations?

kandisa4u said:
I am in a similar dilemma. This is what I am expecting:
A single e-book reader like moon+ or fabrik that can read both epub and mobi files.
Reader that connects to that specific folder on my Dropbox account which has all of my book collection saved in it.
Automatically scans that Dropbox folder for all the e-books and display them neatly in a shelf of 4 to 5 thumbnails per row just as it would display books that are saved on my phone's internal memory.
Gives me an option to cherry pick a book from my bookshelf. Once selected it should then download it to my device for offline reading and sync all changes to that particular e-book file only once my device is back online (similar to Repligo PDF reader).
Since I am addicted to my SPen, I want to have a similar experience when reading an e-book like I do when reading a paper book. So I would like to be in a position wherein I can not only highlight the text but scribble my own hand written notes as I read along. I then want these notes to be permanently saved on the e-book file being read (similar to Repligo PDF reader). This was possible on Samsung's reader hub app but since that has been integrated with Samsung hub, ability to upload or read your own book saved on the device has been taken away. You can only read what you buy from their store unfortunately. Although, cloud sync was not possible with Reader's Hub too.
Is there a product in the market that meets my above expectations?
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Check Mantano reader (I use premium version, though may not be exactly what you looking for)

intelliriffer said:
Check Mantano reader (I use premium version, though may not be exactly what you looking for)
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Thanks. Mantano's UX is not really good. This app further boxes up the note taking screen thus further reducing the screen real estate. Would you know if any other e-book reader. For now I am using Mantano too and moon+ for mobi e-books.

Comics app thread!

I'm a big comic book fan who got into comicbooks with my ipad but just found the whole size of the ipad to be a bit too big for my reading them on the subway or at home, it's one reason why i got the Kindle HDX 8.9. I've had this thing for about a week and i've sideloaded a few readers and gotten some readers from the Amazon App store, here's a brief overview of what i've experience for each:
By far my favorite .cbr/.cbz reader of the bunch is Comic Cat. It's very similar to an app i raved about to people on the ipad called comiczeal. The only thing is it has no way to download public domain comics like comiczeal did, BUT FEAR NOT TRUE BELIEVER! You can easily just download them from places like archive.org and Comic Cat will automatically (magically?) scan the entire SD disk in the OS for .cbr/.cbz/.pdf/etc content to read from. If you're like me and have a TON of your own personal scans, then this is the app for you. 2.99 on app store.
Close second is Comic Rack because you can organize folders of collections very easily, however, the UI isn't nearly as smooth. It's also something you have to sideload (i sideloaded mine via apk downloader via chrome on my laptop). Comes in pro ($7.49) and free varieties. I only used pro, so i have no idea if free has ads in it or not. Probably does. One AWERSOME feature is that you can load up your dropbox with stuff and sync it to the app. I have a 10 GB drop box, so being able to go to a coffee shop and just load up a favorite issue of something is fantastic. However, the sync is very finicky at times.
X-Comics/comiXology/Comics - Decent reader and if you're interested in purchasing comics and not using your own scans, this is the way to go. Runs far better than amazon's ebook formats through the official store. You can get some free sample comics and free issues all over the place with it (i believe the first issue or walking dead is even available for free there). Has a great panel-by-panel feature that can help out with pacing and mood if you're just getting into comics. Free, but paid comics and subs.
ACV (aka A Comic Viewer). Barebones to a T. You got a list of comics you have on your device, and you can click on them to read them. Almost no transitions, very simple barebones .cbr/.cbz reader. FREE
If japanese comics are more your thing, manga searcher works, but be warned a good portion of the content through the app are fan translations and thus not technically legal, but in a grey area. Downloads them in .zip format, but displays them just fine. On the 8.9 HDX they appear flawless. 7 inch tablets look just like holding a manga in your hand. The app is free, and all the manga through it is free, but be warned these are fan translations!
If you have any others feel free to share them and discuss them. If you found something akin to comic zeal on the ipad, LET ME KNOW! I miss the ease of the app, but don't miss transferring files to the thing.

I use perfect viewer, it also does PDFs and SAMBA shares, so you don't even need to copy a file onto the device to read it.

ugh. none of them do a good dropbox sync, comic cat does but it syncs the WHOLE folder. it's constantly trying to sync my 40 gigs of comics.
i only want to read them one by one.
luckily i have an ipad and chunky reader lets me download one by one.