Recommended eBook reader app for android

Questions
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Looking for an ebook reader app forandroud. Are there any recommendations?

Graphene OS PDF Viewer is barely ok to read long pdfs and I dont think it can open epubs?

Best regards,
Snow

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KOReader, it’s a proper ebook reader app often used in modded kobo. Works well on a standard phone too

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Thanks gonna check it out :slight_smile:

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I like Librera Reader. The app can view 14 different file types. Tons of options.

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For epubs, I like Librera better than Koreader. It’s more of a normal android experience. For example, you can swipe up and down to scroll. Koreader can’t do that, because it’s designed primarily for e-ink screens.

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Thank you two for the recommendation but App Lounge warns that librera uses trackers (Google ADMob)

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There are two. Did you try both?

  • Librera: all for book reading
  • Librera PRO - Book reader

I’d probably be ok with tracking in the free version. The devs have bills to pay.

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Dont think pro is in App Lounge :slight_smile:

Dont mind paying for stuff if its worth it. But most paid app need google stuff for buying them

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The Office section of this page may be of interest
https://divestos.org/pages/recommended_apps

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Thanks forgot that site abd how great it is. Its perfect

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I have a hard time believing the F-Droid version has Google trackers.

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Yeah I forgot to say, it’s the F-Droid release of Librera I recommend. The free one on Google Play has ads, and I’ve never tried the paid version.

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https://github.com/Acclorite/book-story

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:frowning: what happened to this site?

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I’m more than happy with Readest.

Since I’m on Graphene OS I have network permissions off. I don’t need it.

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I just downloaded Book Story by Acclorite from F-Droid and it’s not working. I manually selected EPUB books on my phone to open, and Book Story is not an option to open it. Moreover, I added the folder where all my EPUB e-books are to be scanned, and it’s also not working. None of my EPUBs have been added.

Ok. I was able to manually add an eBook. Is the only reading mode scrolling? Is there a way to turn page left to right? I’m not seeing it in the settings.

Readest is promising, but it’s not quite there for me. It’s too buggy. It also doesn’t have the turn page animation that Apple Books And Google Play Books have.
I am currently eBoox, which is also very buggy, but yeah, as far as I’m concerned there has yet to be a great cross-platform alternative to Apple and Google’s apps.

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I’ve been using Book’s Story for over a year now. Acclorite has been trying to figure out how to add page turning, but has been having trouble figuring out the pagination of epubs and other formats, they want all of the code in the app to be written by them and have yet to find something that works as they want it to.

As to the importing issues, you set a folder for Book’s Story to read files from, and then in the app you can view the files and select them for import. You have to manually import them in the app though, just adding them to the folder does not add it to your active library.

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Librera for me, mainly because of the degree of customisation. I’d like to be able to sync.

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Moon+ Reader Pro, with network access killed from Android settings :slight_smile:

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Ok. But it is possible to move from page to page without scrolling? Like sliding left to right for example? Because all I have now is scrolling.

That’s what I initially did, but it didn’t work.

Yes, that’s what I realized which was a little frustrating.