ereader apps

[Live2ride883]

My wife has some pdf and lit format books that she would like to load onto the Xoom. Which reader will read these formats and allow the books to be side loaded?

 

[Vudumedic]

The nook app should. I believe the native one will as well.

 

[Live2ride883]

The nook app should. I believe the native one will as well.

Do you know what folder google books stores in?

I will install nook and try it, thanks.

 

[wg#AC]

Yes I use the nook app to side load epub books to it. I use calibre to convert my pdfs to epub then just copy them over.... I will tell you it takes a little getting use to using calibre. And the nook does crash when trying to exit. But it works for reading the books very well. As for the directory it is in nook/my documents. I did have to restart nook (restarting your Xoom) to get it to recognize the books.

 

[Drew2u]

My wife has some pdf and lit format books that she would like to load onto the Xoom. Which reader will read these formats and allow the books to be side loaded?

Adliko (a Book Reader) will read PDF, not sure about "lit".

You can create a custom folder (ex: My PDF) and use Aldiko to browse to it and open it, so it won't matter where you put the files.

Aldiko comes in two flavors:

FREE: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.aldiko.android

Premium: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.android.aldiko

 

[DrWu]

+1. Vote for nook app. Its best reader I've used

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[wg#AC]

Adliko (a Book Reader) will read PDF, not sure about "lit".

You can create a custom folder (ex: My PDF) and use Aldiko to browse to it and open it, so it won't matter where you put the files.

Aldiko comes in two flavors:

FREE: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.aldiko.android

Premium: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.android.aldiko

Interesting. Does it actually save the page you are on when you close the app? That was the biggest problem I found with pdf. And why I choose to convert them instead.

 

[Drew2u]

Interesting. Does it actually save the page you are on when you close the app? That was the biggest problem I found with pdf. And why I choose to convert them instead.

It does remember your last read page. As an eReader, it will remember the last page viewed of any file type it supports...

You can even set up your own tags for your files (PDF, ePub, etc.) so you can categorize them any way you want within Aldiko, so you can keep all of the files in one folder under SDcard, but can have custom organization within the reader.

It's got some quirks, but it's still decent. And this isn't even optimized yet for Honeycomb, so I think when Aldiko finally comes out with an optimized version it will really be sweet.