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Okay now I am jealous!
My wife's shiny new Desire has just had Kindle made available to it on the App Store.
Where can I source some good [ideally free!] ebooks for the HD2 and which EBook Reader should I get please?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=652252
i would recommend freda reader....its great.(now use the search option please before you post)
Thanks. I knew about the ereaders but didnt see this thread for ebooks themselves.
Do I need that indexer as well as the Freda Reader you mention above?
wigwam12 said:
Thanks. I knew about the ereaders but didnt see this thread for ebooks themselves.
Do I need that indexer as well as the Freda Reader you mention above?
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indexer is for the ereader tab whereas with freda you just install the app and that's that.
Great thanks.
I will give it a whirl
My favorite reader software is mobipocket (free). You can also use there Creator software to convert between different formats.
What type of books are you into?
If sci-fi then google "5th imperium". Its a site set up by Baen books with loads of books available but they are all sci-fi / fantasy.
You can download them in various formats.
Perfect. I am indeed a Sci-Fi and Fantasy nut
thanks petest got a couple of good reads for my flight and I know where to get plenty more now from 5th Imperium!
I cant get to grips with mobireader - cant even get it to see the books I have on my mem card.
Tried Freader and so far so good.
You can also try sites like the Gutenberg project. It offers tons of free books(mostly the old, classic stuff). For illegal free eBooks I recommend this site.
My favorite reader is e-reader , but it has bug on htc hd2 it does not remember theme setting . To convert books I use Desktop Stanza or quick PDB . And you have to " install books " or go online ereader website and create your book shelf , then with htc you go online login to ereader and download your books you put there . It sounds like lot but once you do it few times , it's breeze .
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For illegal free eBooks I recommend this site.
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LoL pretty damn hilarious
You have a nice sense of humor there Raudi
I just hope I wont get any problems with the moderators because I posted a link to a site where you can find warez
But since the post hasn't been deleted yet and I have received no warning, I hope the moderators wont find the post
ps: I don't want to start a discussion but warez or links to warez sites (other than the one I provided) shouldn't be posted here on XDA IMO. It's bad for software developers and perhaps even XDA itself. If you really want warez, you will find them yourself (including Trojans etc.) but not on XDA-developers.
SHELVES looks like a great app to keep inventory of DVDs, games, books, etc. - similar to Delicious Library for iPhone.
Unfortunately, Shelves doesn't work on my Streak (USA 2.2). When I scan a barcode to add a DVD movie, it says "Couldn't add movie. You might already have it". Needles to say, there are zero movies in my library.
However, the program works great with books - scan the code and it find the correct book and adds it to the shelf.
Am I missing something in the settings? Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
ZodiacPhoto said:
SHELVES looks like a great app to keep inventory of DVDs, games, books, etc. - similar to Delicious Library for iPhone.
Unfortunately, Shelves doesn't work on my Streak (USA 2.2). When I scan a barcode to add a DVD movie, it says "Couldn't add movie. You might already have it". Needles to say, there are zero movies in my library.
However, the program works great with books - scan the code and it find the correct book and adds it to the shelf.
Am I missing something in the settings? Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
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This sounded like an awesome idea to me when I saw this post.
I have about 500 DVDs in my collection and keeping them straight in my head has been a hassle for me for a couple of years now. This sounded like just the solution.
So, I put it on my Streak to test it. And, had the same exact issue you are seeing with it so far as my DVDs are concerned. Didn't even try the books. Only a hundred or two of them, and no problems remembering yet.
I get the same issues using DJ 1.7. Bummer looked like an interesting app.
Solution...?
Unfortunately, the last update for Shelves killed the app for many handsets - found it on apps feedback om the Market.
I could not find where to get the older version of the app - is it possible at all?
However, I am using a different app now, PackRat, free on the Market.
Not as visually attractive as as Shelves would be, but it works great!
I'm in the same boat with many of you guys. Lots of DVDs and Shelves only returns the BS might already be in your library error for me as well.
On edit- I downloaded Packrat and it does take a long time to get results, but it does get results. However, out of 18 DVDs it couldn't find 3 of them (3:10 to Yuma, Adventureland, and Hot Tub Time Machine). Also, out of 12 books it couldn't find 2 of them. Google goggles was able to find all the ones that Packrat was missing. Between the speed and the fact that I have hundreds of books and DVDs to catalog, I'm not sure this will work for me. The miss percentage is too high. I tried putting one DVD in manually, but I see no way to add a picture and adding potentially 100 DVDs manually would take forever.
Second edit- I've now attempted to use packrat to scan 50 more DVDs. It was able to find 26 of them. Again, these aren't indie titles, but mainstream titles like the ones I mentioned above. And, again, Goggles was able to find them. I'm done with Packrat.and still searching for an alternative to Shelves.
have you spoken to the developer of shelves?
most developers are more than happy to go through issues with you and try and resolve them if you're polite and thorough, and willing to help them with testing
So I use nook to read magazines but they don't have Fortune yet. So I saw that Next Issue did have it.
Boy, I wish all my other mags were formatted the way Next Issue does it. Live links and video are embedded into articles to provide additional info as well as behind the scenes interview of the subject.
Plus, even though the magazine is specifically designed to be viewed in portrait mode, everything is readable without having to zoom because the text in each page is scrolling.
I'm not trying to advertise, I just hope if the word gets out the app will expand its titles and other magazines start to format their titles this way.
I'm in no way shape or form employed or paid by the Next Issue. I'm just surprised to find a great app in Samsung apps lol.
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So I use nook to read magazines but they don't have Fortune yet. So I saw that Next Issue did have it.
Boy, I wish all my other mags were formatted the way Next Issue does it. Live links and video are embedded into articles to provide additional info as well as behind the scenes interview of the subject.
Plus, even though the magazine is specifically designed to be viewed in portrait mode, everything is readable without having to zoom because the text in each page is scrolling.
I'm not trying to advertise, I just hope if the word gets out the app will expand its titles and other magazines start to format their titles this way.
I'm in no way shape or form employed or paid by the Next Issue. I'm just surprised to find a great app in Samsung apps lol.
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Agree. Next is a great way to read your favorite magazine.
Is this a download or was it pre-installed?
I wasn't familiar with Next Issue but after seeing the preview on their website it looks interesting... Can I get my hands on this?
EDIT: found it on Samsung Apps!
saltychino said:
So I use nook to read magazines but they don't have Fortune yet. So I saw that Next Issue did have it.
Boy, I wish all my other mags were formatted the way Next Issue does it. Live links and video are embedded into articles to provide additional info as well as behind the scenes interview of the subject.
Plus, even though the magazine is specifically designed to be viewed in portrait mode, everything is readable without having to zoom because the text in each page is scrolling.
I'm not trying to advertise, I just hope if the word gets out the app will expand its titles and other magazines start to format their titles this way.
I'm in no way shape or form employed or paid by the Next Issue. I'm just surprised to find a great app in Samsung apps lol.
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Thanks for this......just what i was looking for
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How much are the issues on this app?
I notice that ebooks and magazines tend to be more money than buying a copy in the store. I'm using no paper, no ink, etc. Seems like they are taking advantage of digital users. For that, i cannot patron those publishers just by ethics. Thank allah for the invention of bit torrent.
to me it's worth the subscription price because its more convenient than print AND it has the added embedded media with it. I can also now use the touchwiz screenshot function to share an infographic to people i think might find that info useful.
And it helps me make up for the trees i kill when having to print other things for work.
Anybody know a website that lets me download free ebooks preferably that can be readable by the stock reader...
Make sure its legal if your going to post.
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Boston Public Library let's you borrow for 2 weeks for free and project Guttenberg is for free as well.... Google has a free book program too---all three are epub compatible so most readers will work
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I was using Wowio. It used to be free but now... it costs. Then again... I was using it when it was still beta and you had to be in school to register for it. lol
Haven't logged onto it till now and it looks like it all costs but looks decent enough.
Try Google eBooks. They have some free ones.
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Anybody know a website that lets me download free ebooks preferably that can be readable by the stock reader...
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Is there a problem with using Google Books app. I know it's not the stock reader, but I think it's a better reader. It's only a few features away from being better than the Kindle app.
Reason I say this is because there are a lot of public domain books available at books.google.com, and you can sync between multiple devices this way too.
There are thousands of free e-books on Kindle and Google's book app. They are mostly classics. There are a lot of free e-books that are nearly impossible or ridiculously expensive to get as paper books.
carlost24 said:
Anybody know a website that lets me download free ebooks preferably that can be readable by the stock reader...
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I use Aldiko, which lets you get a lot of free books that are in the public domain. I stumbled across the fact that any of the books I download using it are also available in the Reader app, too.
Most of their free, public domain books are coming from feedbooks.com, it looks like.
Why not just buy them? They are only a couple dollars?
Or try going into a book store and walking out with a bunch of books? Same thing right? . . .
holdfast043 said:
Why not just buy them? They are only a couple dollars?
Or try going into a book store and walking out with a bunch of books? Same thing right? . . .
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There are plenty of older books that are in the public domain that people do want to read. Many are out of print, and can only be purchased as a rare or collectible book for quite a bit more than even the newest bestseller.
The books that are in the public domain are made available as ebooks so that they can continue to be enjoyed, when they otherwise wouldn't. Just because something is truly free doesn't mean it is being made available illegally.
Hey guys... I am looking for an app for my Galaxy Tab 10.1 that I can use to build a set list for sheet music. I have friends that do this on ipads but haven't come across anything for Android tabs. All my sheet music are scanned or created PDF documents so really I just need an app that I can build a "playlist" of sorts from a database or a folder full of PDFs. It would be nice if this app indexed the PDFs so it would be easier to find the songs that I am looking for. In the end, I want to be able to flip from PDF to the next PDF within the app in the order that I setup.
Any suggestions?
Maybe just use a file manager like Astro?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLm1ldGFnby5hc3RybyJd
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Maybe just use a file manager like Astro?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLm1ldGFnby5hc3RybyJd
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I have that but it doesn't give me what I need. I need to preset the playlist of PDF files and then easily click through them as I move from one song to the next. With Astro, it would take way too long between songs to find the right PDF file and open it between songs.
Have you tried Planning Center Online? I haven't used it from the leader's perspective, but it works well from the participant perspective.
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Have you tried Planning Center Online? I haven't used it from the leader's perspective, but it works well from the participant perspective.
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I was hoping for an app I can use on my 10.1 tab.
Tell you what, I'm going on vacation tomorrow, and if you haven't found an app by the time I'm back,(end of this month) I'll build you one.
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Tell you what, I'm going on vacation tomorrow, and if you haven't found an app by the time I'm back,(end of this month) I'll build you one.
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Deal! I will keep you posted.
I am also interested in this for concerts.
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Just prefix the pdfs with its number in the set list, and then just use and regular file manager to open the pdfs in order.
01-Stairway to heaven.pdf
02-ice ice baby.pdf
Etc.
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Try adobe reader, and click "home", you will be able to see your docs order how you want it.
Astro, Adobe Reader and all these other suggestions are great for finding a file and opening it but I really need something like I said... a reader that can create a "set list" or a playlist or sorts. I have almost 1000 pdf files. It just wouldn't work no matter how you sort them to be able to switch from one song to the next quickly during a concert. I need something that I can add the 5 or so songs to a list and just be able to click "next song" or something like that when I am ready to go to the next pdf.
I don't think i have come across anything that would do that on Android as far as being able to create a file list to go through. The closest thing i can think of is to use perfect viewer with its pdf plugin but with that you would have to do your own file management externally by placing your set of files in a folder and naming them sequentially with number prefixes. Once you do that though perfect viewer will let you cycle through the pages as if the set of files were pages in an ebook.
did you look at mobilesheetsfree?
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The mobile sheets app for Android has an option for set lists which should be what you are looking for.
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The mobile sheets app for Android has an option for set lists which should be what you are looking for.
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Do you have a link for this app? I couldn't find it searching for "mobile sheets" in the Play Store.
Its Mobilesheets
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Mantano Reader free
Hey
I was looking for an app specifically for PDF's since i got ICS on my tab and lost the samsung ebook app.
I found : Mantano Reader
(free from Market but i believe you can buy the pro version too.
I'm loving it so far. Does exactly what I need and maybe what you need.
Any Luck?
I'm looking for the exact same thing.
Where you ever able to find something that worked for you?
pngface end up making something for you?
Setlist App: Song list + file attachments
Hi!
I've developed an app called Setlist that lets you create a sortable list of songs and attach any type of file to each song.
It comes in both free and paid version. File attachments feature is enabled in pro version.
Setlist Free: goo.gl/TAADJ
Setlist Pro: goo.gl/fgw9XY
Please give it a try and let me know if it feets your needs.
Thanks