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Dropbox wasn't made to be a PDF reader, instead it's an application to have your files wherever you go. So I have two great suggestions for you:
ezPDF Reader - This is the best PDF reading application I ever seen for Android. I use it every time I need to read any kind of PDF on my Motorola Droid.
Adobe Reader - A free alternative for ezPDF. Made by Adobe ...
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Some are DRM protected, others aren't.
One way I'm aware of to find out the ones that are DRM, is when you try to download the file for offline reading:
If the extension is .acsm then its a DRM protected book.
If the extension ends in .epub or .pdf then its not DRM.
protected.
Related reading:
File types for reading on your device
DRM options for ...
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Android 2.1 doesn't have any preloaded ebook readers but specific phones may have something preloaded. The pre-loaded apps depend on the carrier, but regardless you can download different ebook readers from the Android App Market for free. Unfortunately none of the current ebook readers are a complete solution as they all have major limitations. Here are ...
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In the US, at least, most editions of the Galaxy S are shipped with Quick Office, a pretty functional document viewer that includes Word & PDF support. It's basic, but works.
Beyond that, quite a few 3rd party apps are available on the market, including Adobe Reader, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and a handful of readers supporting non DRMed ...
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I am not sure about Foxit Reader, but I am using the paid ezPDF Reader.
I am really amazed about its ability to show and fit the content to screen when reading columns of text (like in newspaper). It has other super features like horizontal scroll and automatic scroll to next part.
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Install RepliGo PDF Reader and switch to Text Reflow mode. It has one of the best Text Reflow mode till date which displays images too. But, to read codes, you'll have to fight again.
Another option: Use ezPDF Reader Lite (or Pro) and use its text column locking feature in landscape orientation (to kick out blank margins and use large device height as width ...
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Yes, an eBook from Android Market (in Google Books) has a different format from the Kindle. It would seem that you can obtain Google books in either ePub or PDF (more information here). Amazon books are in the AZW format.
This comes down to personal preference. I have read books on both Google Books and Kindle on my Xoom; I see little to no difference in ...
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PDFs are easily readable, in my books. Adobe's Reader app is actually pretty good, not bloated like the desktop version.
As for conversion, Google probably does a better job of giving you info that I could. The first result for this search is a site that will convert to the ePub format, for example.
Adobe Reader for Android:
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RepliGo Reader ($5) allows you to copy text and to make annotations.
Also, if you convert them to epubs the Nook app allows you to make notes. It may let you copy text on a non-DRM'd book but I don't have any of those so I'm not able to test it. (Just note that while the Nook lets you read PDFs the Nook app currently doesnt.
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Whenever you connect your Nook in USB mode your USB storage from Nook gets unmounted and mounts in your computer. After its unmounted the OS can no longer find your screensaver. That's why Android doesn't want you to keep widgets in USB storage. Similarly apps moved to USB storage no longer works while connected to your computer.
If you move the screensaver ...
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Aldiko is an eBook reader that reads PDFs as well, remember the last page you were at and on top of that allows you to set bookmarks, something that Adobe Reader and most other readers I tried won't let you do.
Bookmarks are a must have for me so I chose Aldiko.
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Why not use Dropbox? You can put all your ebooks into the Dropbox folder on your local network, then using the Dropbox app you can open whichever book you choose at the time. You don't have to actually load the book to your Android device to view it. If you decide you want to load it to your device, you have that option as well.
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If you allow non-Appstore apps to be installed in your device, you can install Dropbox from their website.
To do that,
Click the gear icon in the top-right corner of the Kindle Fire home screen to activate the Settings window
Click More
Scroll down to Device
Scroll down to ‘Allow Installation of Applications from Unknown Sources’ and move the slider ...
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It sounds to me like Alkido 1.1 was bundled on your device as a system app. To remove a system app, you need root.
There are two ways to address this easily, I would prefer #1 myself.
Method 1
Uninstall Alkido 2.0.
Install Titanium Backup.
Run Titanium and wait for it to load your app list.
Go to the app list and long-press on Alkido 1.1.
Choose ...
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qPDF Viewer - a free ad-free Android PDF Reader - also has a great text reflow mode. Users can zoom in and out to increase or decrease the font size. Look for "Reflow Text" under the action toolbar "View" menu.
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If you have a PC, try the Calibre program. I converts almost every kind of ebook into every other format of ebook.
So you can convert any pdf into any format our Android device can read in whatever program you have or are accustomed with.
Best of all, it's free !
The pdf reader from Adobe is a big program to install on the phone ... and aside from that: I ...
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There's also Documents to Go which is a suite - allows for viewing / editing of MS Office docs. PDF support as well. No conversion needed.
An additional plus point is that the paid version integrates with Google Docs online allowing a user to view and edit your files from your Google Docs account directly in Docs To Go. Any changes you make can be saved and ...
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Txtr purports to support both, but hasn't gotten very good reviews.
Speak Text Easy and MultiReader are primarily for text-to-speech, but they both appear to support both file formats.
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There is no such thing as "streaming" a book. What you need is a smart management of the locally download copy of the book. In any most ebook reader, this would take manually deleting the ebooks that you've finished reading. Most ebook reader that I knew that were attached to a book store lets you to redownload books you've deleted from your device. Some ...
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There is an app called Calibre Companion that allows you to sync your device with Calibre remotely over your wifi. This means you can keep your books on your PC and only pull books to your phone as you need them. It will still download the entire book, but once you have finished it you can delete it from your device.
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Create a shared folder or drive on your home pc, then access the files using ES File Explorer.
I'm not sure if this technically streams the files or if it downloads the whole thing and stores it temporarily. Either case is functionally identical, so I believe this should be an acceptable solution to your problem.
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It seems you cannot achieve this on built-in Nook app. Fortunately, you are using two android
devices since there are many solutions for reading on android devices.
Install Moon + reader under the assistance of Dropbox on your android phone and Nook color.
You can also keep the same reading progress in this method.
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I don't believe that functionality works yet. I have tried to sideload PDFs and plain .txt files and they don't register in "My Library" or under "My Files" and obviously they don't sync between my devices. I also can't find a web interface for loading non-nook files.
I did a little searching around a couple months ago and I found a few unsubstantiated ...
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If you look at your Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon (the same page where you set the email address up) you can see that the Kindle email address is specifically assigned to one Kindle device. If you had more than one Kindle device, then you can assign different email addresses to each. The upside of this for Kindle owners is that you and other family ...
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There are several apps you might check (ordered best recommendation first):
Moon+ Reader Pro is the best ebook reader I know. Support for the important formats (txt, html, epub, pdf, umd, fb2, chm, zip -- pdf only in the pro, said to be the fastest PDF renderer on Android), plenty libraries pre-configured to download books from (you can add your own ...
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Amazon has just updated their Kindle app to offer a two column layout for tablets. I was thrilled that they did this. Google Pay Book reader has that two page layout and I really preferred that on my tablet.
Kindle app will also read PDF files. I don't think it will do EPUB but there might be a converter out there to make it into Kindle format.
There are ...
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There is a Repligo Reader for Android available... If you want some alternatives you should take a look at RepliGo Reader Alternatives for Android
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If you're rooted, I suggest you export your library as a filesystem share from your Windows computer, mount the share on your Android system, and then use the ebook reader of your choice on the Android device. This will transfer only the required parts of your files to your device.
Popular solutions for mounting Windows shares on Android include Mount ...
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From Android Play Store, you can use ASTRI-Bee (full version):
Support for epub3 ebooks, e.g. the RTL epub books which is generally not available for reading in most of the epub readers but a basic feature of epub3 ebooks, also javascript within epub ebooks is enabled.
Also support pdf, txt, html formatted ebooks.
Support for audio and video ...
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Starting with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), Google introduced hardware accelerated 2D rendering pipeline. For now it's a tablet-only feature, but hopefully we'll get that in the unified Ice Cream Sandwich platform.
That should be a bit with that slowness issue with PDF readers since they are only able to do software rendering in Gingerbread and older.
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