I just got a Galaxy Tab 7.7 and I have bunch of books in PDF that I´d like to read. I´m wondering what is the best PDF book reader app out there? I´m looking for the following characteristics:
Full screen reading
Page flip
Allows you to know in which page you´ve stopped
Can handle large pdf files
Would it maybe be better to convert these PDF files to kindle files?
thanks in advance
Rafa
rawfa said:
I just got a Galaxy Tab 7.7 and I have bunch of books in PDF that I´d like to read. I´m wondering what is the best PDF book reader app out there? I´m looking for the following characteristics:
Full screen reading
Page flip
Allows you to know in which page you´ve stopped
Can handle large pdf files
Would it maybe be better to convert these PDF files to kindle files?
thanks in advance
Rafa
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The kindle app will read pdf files
Thanks! That solves it all.
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HI All,
The Adobe Reader on TG01 hampers readabilty, as I increase the font size I have to slide the text all the while. I tried to install another Adobe2 programme, but it didn't work at all. What can I do? I'm in dire need of reading books and articles, as I can't carry my notebook everywhere. Please HELP!
regards,
shahzadahmad said:
HI All,
The Adobe Reader on TG01 hampers readabilty, as I increase the font size I have to slide the text all the while. I tried to install another Adobe2 programme, but it didn't work at all. What can I do? I'm in dire need of reading books and articles, as I can't carry my notebook everywhere. Please HELP!
regards,
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You can try using TG01 in landscape mode to read pdf files, it might reduce the number of times you want to scroll or you could use other softwares that could open pdf files. However, since pdf versions can be opened only by few softwares and adobe being one of the best, I don't think you would find increased benefits of using anything else. TG01 has a massive screen so you already are in benefit of not scrolling as much as you might do in smaller phones!
Landscape view for reading is what I normally do. What
I normally use landscape view for reading but here I mean when I had Imate Jamin, I could read pdfs very easily with the Adobe2, because it had text wrapping function. The default Adobe doesn't have this text wrapping function. Can anyone suggest how the problem can be solved?
shahzadahmad said:
I normally use landscape view for reading but here I mean when I had Imate Jamin, I could read pdfs very easily with the Adobe2, because it had text wrapping function. The default Adobe doesn't have this text wrapping function. Can anyone suggest how the problem can be solved?
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There are two types of PDF documents:
1) Image based or scanned documents (without OCR process) , that are just graphic documents, and
2) text documents (from a text source or OCR process)
1) Regarding the first type, we are limited by the screen size (I agree with other replies, working in landscape can help us). We can only scrolling across the document using a PDF reader. For this, I recommend Foxit Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com).
2) If instead, the pdf is based on text, the Adobe Reader that comes with the TG01 is useless, because it don't have the text re-flow option (I think that it's the same that shahzadahmad calls "text wrapping function")
You have to replace the Adobe Reader version. Mine is LE 2.5.00
If you want to try it, I've uploaded my copy, but it's in Spanish. I think that if you search a bit, you will find the same version (or newer) in English.
For text only, another great possibility is convert the PDF on EPUB with Calibra or AnyBizSoft PDF to EPUB and reading it with FREDA (a free EPUB reader)
http://www.turnip.demon.co.uk/jim/freda/freda6.htm. The reading experience it's much better (but you need an external PC to convert the document)
Hope this help you
UPDATE: I've just discovered a web site where you can convert online documents to EPUB and FREE!! : http://www.2epub.com/
I have many PDFs i want to read on the Reader app that comes with the Flyer as i can note notes, comments and highlights.
i was wondering how can i import those into the Reader ? if they aren't via adobe Id nor ikobo?
thanks
You can use the PDF Viewer.
You can open the PDFs in the HTC Provided PDF Viewer. You can place the PDFs pretty much anywhere. It should find it, once you open the app. However you can also direct the program to open it from the menu button.
Also there are plenty of other options for viewing PDFs in the Android Market if you do not like the one HTC provides you.
Personally, I have all my PDFs in my MicroSD card.
bucklee said:
You can open the PDFs in the HTC Provided PDF Viewer. You can place the PDFs pretty much anywhere. It should find it, once you open the app. However you can also direct the program to open it from the menu button.
Also there are plenty of other options for viewing PDFs in the Android Market if you do not like the one HTC provides you.
Personally, I have all my PDFs in my MicroSD card.
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yes the PDF Viewer can view the the file but its scrolling from top to bottom without the nice features in the Reader app:
Annotations
Bookmarks
Font Size
multiple reading scenes such as Night
i cant get PDFs into this reader app ?
sorry I misunderstood.
Depending on what type of PDF it is, you probably need to convert them into a epub file. After which you can add it like any other books.
Are you able to extract the taken in the Reader app?
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Are you able to extract the taken in the Reader app?
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i can view books in the Reader normally, but didn't know what do you mean about extracting ?
anyone knows how to read PDFs on HTC's Reader?
Like I said.
It all depends on what type of PDFs you are working with. If it is text based PDFs you can convert your PDFs into ePub. Like this Link. But I do not think this works with JPG based PDFs as you will not have any function of the reader, like using the Scribe pen. For PDFs with Jpgs I just use the PDF Viewer and you can still use your scribe pen, works great for my magazines and other PDFs that I have scanned and created into PDFs. Hope this helps.
i searched the forum, didnt see this. maybe i over looked.
just got my galaxy tab 10.1 want to transfer some ebooks that i have downloaded from various places on it, so i have something to read.
problem. the books i have downloaded and dropped onto tab, i am unable to open. no program associated with files. what do i need to be able to get these books readable? is there a certain format i need to download? certain reader? any help is greatlt appreciated!!
my tab is rooted. not running a custom ROM (yet)
thank you
Download the Nook app from the market. Ebooks go into the sdcard/Nook/MyDocuments directory. Make sure that you organize your ebooks by /author/*.epub, the app doesn't like it if you just toss all your epubs into the MyDocuments folder.
There are several other ebook readers in the market if you don't like the Nook app for whatever reason.
Thank you. I have nook from market. Does it matter what the format is when I download?I'll be mainly dl from to my laptop then transferring over to my tab.
I use Calibre ebook management on my PC and GT10.1. It get's book covers, organizes by author and changes the format to whatever you prefer.
everything i've downloaded is PDF. and when i copy it over to my tab, i can't find it or it is unreadable. any other suggestion?
Go to the market, search "pdf reader" pick one.
Or you can download Calibre ebook manager onto your pc and convert the pdf files into .epub and use the Nook reader or whatever.
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everything i've downloaded is PDF. and when i copy it over to my tab, i can't find it or it is unreadable. any other suggestion?
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Download "Aldiko". I find it very good and easy to use reader. It supports PDF also.
I got aldiko and calibre. Going to try them both. Thank you for all the help!!
There is also an official Adobe Reader app and Quick Office should technically read them too, just sayin.
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There is also an official Adobe Reader app and Quick Office should technically read them too, just sayin.
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adobe reader wasnt that great. quick office is good. aldiko, not so great for the magazines. i also have zinio, but i cant import magazines into it. i am using calibre to convert books to different formats to try them out and see what works best. when i try epub, aldiko doesnt see it. oh well. ill keep meswsing around with it ans see what happens. thanks for all the help!
I put some pdfs and an m4v and flv video on the device, organized in folders. I go in acrobat reader and it seems to find the pdfs, but just puts them in a single list, rather than showing the file hierarchy.
I would like to be able to browse the file hierarchy and touch a file and have it open. I have a lot of pdfs to put in the device and they need to be organized, not one big list.
Also would like to search for text in PDFs.
Ideally I am looking for something similar to ipad's Goodreader wher you can organize a hieararchy of mixed file types, PDF and video, and view any of them.
Acrobat reader and Quick Office seem to be a little slow to load. I am wondering if there is an app for this that is quick loading.
Any ideas?
Agree that Acrobat reader is one of the worst PDF readers all across the pad platforms. But unfortunately it seems that's the only choice on webos. Hope this wave of TP can bring some new PDF reader to it.
[Q] How to search through a PDF?
please excuse the question but I tried google a few times and couldn't get anything. Can the default adobe PDF viewer even search documents? If it can how the hell can I find the option? Is there anything 3rd party that allows searching through pdfs?
[Q] PDF Reading and Citrix?
To current owners, how is reading pdfs on the TP? Is it snappy like Ipad 2 and how about large pdfs like 100mb or greater? I dont really care about annotations.
Also does Citrix work? I saw an ad showing Citrix working. Thx
For the pdf file it's very fast and snappy,very usable, but only tested with a couple of 50Mo one, if you have bigger to test give me a link.
About citrix, take a look here:
http://forums.precentral.net/webos-development/190779-request-citrix-app.html
And
http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/02/09/...ake-webos-devices-enterprise-ready-at-launch/
Ok, I couldn't resist the temptation and got a Touchpad to play with. The two hospital pages where I use Citrix to access medical records don't work. The demo on Youtube looks so smooth . Adobe Acrobat on the WebOS is just as horrid as on the Android platform. There is no way, I can sit there read the PDFs in this condition. The letters all look fuzzy, and I don't think this is purely an issue with resolution and display. The software doesn't fully render it.
The good part is that flash works really well from the browser. Very well done. Also the cards arrangement of the overall OS is the best I have seen out of all 3 tablet platforms. It's unfortunate. I think it just take a little more work from HP to make it competitive.
1. A better screen. It's listed as IPS display but no where close to the Ipad.
2. Work out the small bugs in the WebOS
This pad desperately needs Alkido.
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please excuse the question but I tried google a few times and couldn't get anything. Can the default adobe PDF viewer even search documents? If it can how the hell can I find the option? Is there anything 3rd party that allows searching through pdfs?
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Not to the best of my knowledge, I've looked through every option and nothing. I also asked this same question about searching PDFs and never got a response. FYI I have a few 40mb+ pdfs w/ schematic drawings and it has the tendency of chugging along or even worse it loses the menu bar uptop where I can select pages from. I'll get stuck on page 230 out of 500 and will have to close the card down and open it up again to get the number list.
I searched for a spot to post this. I can post pdf to epub in calibre but can't seem to do mobi or doc to epub. I may be doing something wrong. All my magazines are in pdf if it was my choice id make everything epub.
I know that Calibre does convert .mobi to epub because most of the books I had were .mobi and I converted them -- for the most part. There were a few that gave me issues, but I just found different copies for those.
You could save your .doc files as .rtf or something else so that Calibre will read the source format.
would the 'RTF' ( rich text file ? ) keep the magazines' layout and pics ?
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I searched for a spot to post this. I can post pdf to epub in calibre but can't seem to do mobi or doc to epub. I may be doing something wrong. All my magazines are in pdf if it was my choice id make everything epub.
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Are you sure the mobi files are DRM-free? I ran into this a few times when trying to convert DRM'ed mobi files from Fictionwise (back in the day when they sold anything besides vampire romance books)... There are pretty easily available python scripts to remove the DRM from mobi files, and plenty of guides available on line for deDRM'ing them. If I recall, you DO need to have a valid MobiPocket Reader device ID for the deDRM scripts to work...
Saludos,
Steve
You can save a doc file as an epub file in Libre Office or Open Office using a small plugin. I believe it's name is doc2epub, but not 100% sure, as I am not at my computer right now.
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why not just convert doc to pdf? Then pdf to epub! :]
Correct me if I am wrong but the Nook can read PDFs pretty well can't it? Why do you need to convert to epub?
I personally use calibre but it doesn't work as well as one would like for anything with layout constrictions. Hence why I would suggest using PDF.
Even with a screen as large as the NT's reading a PDF can be a pain. You have two choices see the whole page and barely readable text or get readable text and a small fraction of page.
Epub fixes that with adjustable text size and layouts.
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