Looking for an ebook reader that supports highlighting and bookmarking of that highlighted text so that I can go back to review it later. If it works with flat files (ASCII), all the better. For example, I have some legal briefs which I want to be able to read, highlight and go back to later. Anyone have some suggestions?
If your documents are .pdfs you can use any tablet or reader running Android 2.0 or above with the Repligo Reader app. It lets you highlight, underline and annotate .pdfs. The app is $5. It's the best money I've spent after getting my eLocity A7.
Not sure if it meets your needs, but I know that Kindle for Android allows you to annotate, highlight and lookup words. I would probably mean converting your texts (which can be done with freeware) though. Maybe worth a look?
I have both DocumentsToGo, and QuickOffice on my G-Tab. DocsToGo will let you open a Word Doc, but when you go to edit, it opens a new edit dialog with the previous sentence (at most) visible. It does not seem to allow you to edit many formatting options, and I can't see any way to use it to insert an image file into a document. QuickOffice lets you edit inline, but otherwise seems to have the same limitations.
Is there a "complete" word processing program for the G-Tab that will let me do some formatting and insert pictures, as well as produce a .DOC or .DOCX compatible file?
Is there some way to setup Google Docs like this, and have it be available if I don't have a connection (maybe through dropbox)?
TIA!
I'm using the QuickOffice HD from the Notion Ink Adam and it works great!
It's available via this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928832
Right now, the current version lets you connect to Google Docs and both edit AND create new documents (Word, Excel, PPT) as well as read PDFs
You could easily open a document up and re-save it internal to your gTablet for offline use -- or as you suggest use Dropbox to keep a local folder synced up for offline use...
Google only recently added support for the XML office files to GDocs -- so creation of new documents in those formats isn't natively supported in this version (but may be available in a newer version of QuickOffice HD I suppose)
Long Pressing in a Word document brings up a dialog with the following options:
- Add Image from Gallery
- Add Image from Camera
- Select Text
- Input Method
You can also change Fonts (inc. set Bold, Underline, Italic, etc), Alignment, Colour...
I think that just about meets your requirements (?) -- give it a try...
+1 for quickoffice tablet addition from notion ink. Works great for me!
OK, have given it a try. To begin with, I feel a little odd using it since I can't find the HD version in the market, so have to wonder if it won't up and die on me at some point.
In any event, I was able to insert and resize a picture, but couldn't find any way to select just the picture so I could try to center it. Selection handles seem a bit difficult to operate. Also could not find any way to edit my headers or footers, or to apply my document styles for chapter hearings.
Tool may support all this, but the online help isn't the greatest either. Half tempted to register and see if there have been any updates.
FWIW
The HD version is great. Use it for my college classes and I love it. Have the USB case and this and ur good to go. Being integrated with google docs and dropbox is a nice feature too
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I just side loaded the Notion Ink Quick Office app, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a document. Am I supposed to create a Google Docs account or something? Or should I just be able to create a document on my G tab?
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I just side loaded the Notion Ink Quick Office app, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a document. Am I supposed to create a Google Docs account or something? Or should I just be able to create a document on my G tab?
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I think you click the app (e.g., word), then select SDCARD, then press the small + at the bottom, which will popup file or folder choice.
Jim
Got it, thanks. Very cool!
Wow i must say the Quickoffice HD is way better than my DocstoGo full at this moment. Wasted my money on Docstogo...
I like the ported canvas app as well.
This seems to be much better than doctogo.
It asked about registering it do I need to?
Nope it's optional.
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I will say that mobipocket reader is one of my favorite apps on my WM 6.5 phone. The ability to highlight text, annotate, and the organization of all of that thereof makes this program super legit. I think the files that it creats are .prc files. My question is : Are there any mobipocket like appz for android? I use officesuite which does well for a .txt reader but it doesnt offer the perks of Mobipocket. Thanks if you have any suggestions!
I loved Mobipocket on my old Windows phones. Since I got my Evo and G-tab I use ireader (bought from the Market). It reads all of my Mobi files, and I still use Mobi on my PC to create them. If you want a free reader that reads them, you can try the Kindle app, just have to copy the books into the Kindle folder on your device.
Hello,
I've spent 100s of hours with that, in fact the need of a powerful device for Mobipocket brought me to HTC HD2 and all that flashing and hacking activity ;-) ..no regrets, because the Mobipocket on my HD2 now is that what I was longing for, so I really much appreciate all that xda-developers help..
There is no bloody kindle doing this job! ..and hardly anything els, I couldn't believe it myself - the mobipocket version I use now must be about 6 years old !!
Certainly there are number of other readers, most of them unfortunately pitifuly poor.
Mobipocket came with 3 important things for me:
a) I can create a mobibook of my own (using pc creator)
b) there is a choice of 100s of dictionaries which are direct linked to my readings by simply tapping a word - smth. similar you will find with other readers too, the difference is that they give you typically a choice of max 2 dict. - none of which I would compare to my Longman or Chambers - and you can only dream about them working simultaneously - well, some of them would take you online - which is quite impressive by iReader, however, mobi-dictionaries do not depend on the internet connection, plus you can again highlight, bookmark, add note, or create a direct link from that book you've been reading into your dictionary, so next time when you go through it, you'd just touch that underlined word which takes you right where you want to be..
c) you can customize colours, fonts, toolbar, organize reading lists.. given the fact, that this app was stopped by Amazon in development some 6 years ago, it is a luxury application.. well, it doesn't turn pages in 3D, but as a reading tool, especially for study, in my opinion, it's hardly replaceable by other reader so far..
some readers do the mobipocket format, but do they support the function of built-in mobipocket dictionaries? hardly.. if I wanted my Longman to work in an android reader, the trouble is they don't do it as a built-in dictionary anymore..
WM 6.5 FOREVER
Mobipocket was purchased by Amazon. It is the backbone for their .azw format (at one point and time, you could retrieve the Kindle 1 PID). On the Kindle devices, you could read .prc and .mobi formats natively.
I haven't tried with the Android app, but you could try copying a Mobi file into the Kindle's book folder and see if it appears. The only downside is that the Kindle app doesn't have a PID, so it wouldn't be able to read protected files.
Ever since Amazon acquired Mobipocket, there haven't been any real updates to the Mobipocket apps. There were a few minor updates to existing apps, but no new platforms have been added (like Android). Amazon pretty much wants everyone to use the Kindle app instead.
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Is there an app for the Xoom that lets you fill in forms? Adobe Reader doesn't allow it
I can't really give you a positive response but the following three programs don't allow filling an Adobe 9 form either:
Documents To Go (paid)
Picsel Smart Office (paid)
Quick Office HD (incl w/ Xoom)
Did you try a market search?
yup.. i did, thanks for the heads up though!
Repligo does what you need.
Repligo is the only .PDF reader that also allows you to draw/write free hand in a file that I found after searching for 5 days. I purchased it ($4.99) and figured it would be worth it because now I can take digital contracts to all clients and have them signed and copies emailed to them in minutes. If you search youtube for Repligo you will also see a full video explanation of the features.
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Repligo is the only .PDF reader that also allows you to draw/write free hand in a file that I found after searching for 5 days. I purchased it ($4.99) and figured it would be worth it because now I can take digital contracts to all clients and have them signed and copies emailed to them in minutes. If you search youtube for Repligo you will also see a full video explanation of the features.
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Free hand is not exactly the same as filling out forms but it's a start. Thanks for the info! Hopefully companies will discover the value of the android tablet market soon.
[sent with Android technology]
I don't want to point out the obvious but if you have a scanner and printer then print the page outfill it in and scan it back to the computer... I think you could also print the page and scan it back in the computer under a different format so you could type it then do what you got to do
Think of PDF forms as being in the same space as HTML forms. You have discrete fields with the ability to have logic and calculations in Adobe's version of javascript. Handwriting over it or printing out negates the whole point of making it an Acrobat form.
I was told that the Adobe app supported forms but I have not tried it, so the person I was talking with was probably mistaken. I think Adobe themselves would be the most likely to support form elements in a standalone manner (i.e. not using the Acrobat Forms Server, or whatever they call it now).
thanks for all the replies. i wanted to use my xoom for work and have clients fill out forms via the PDF.
Name: Tiny eBook Reader, Mango release.
Tiny eBook Reader allows you to read eBooks with the formatting you choose. We've put most of the features that were in the Windows Mobile version and made a Windows Phone 7 reader. We've taken the lastest submission to Marketplace (it's still going through testing) and compiled it for Mango.
It has most of the fixes that will be in the NoDo Marketplace version, but is compiled for 7.1 beta 2 and uses Mango extended Back tile.
Pin the app and it will display the last opened eBook on the back of the tile.
Another app to show off the cool new features of Mango.
Any bugs, feedback, please email using address in app About, and put MANGO in the subject.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
(these are screencaps from the emulator, with photo book backgrounds.)
Download Link:
*This will not run on NoDo devices*
Anyone interested in playing with this version of Tiny eBook Reader for Mango you can download the XAP here:
http://www.goldencrater.com/Tiny_eBook_Reader-Mango.xap
Of course, "since only registered developers have Mango", you'll know how to sideload the app. And, until Marketplace starts accepting Mango verisons for submission...
Enjoy!!
Nice, I'll give that a shot tomorrow. I have already tried the version that's available on the marketplace, but opening a book always results in a sudden close of the app. Could be related to the mango beta, so with this new build I'll find out if that's the case or not.
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Even with the new version I still can't read any books.
Woow great application. Can't wait for newer version.
which formats your app support?
I need reading prc format, can it read that format?
@dkp1977 : thanks for working back and forth with us to get those bugs out of the code!
@biper4x4 : thanks.
@dalmate : You can't read PRC directly. The converter we have will soon support .ePub. However, using the site below, you can convert PRC to LIT and then drop the LIT into the converter tool that will drop the book onto your Dropbox account for you. A 2 step process, I know. Not ideal, but we're working on adding more formats.
http://www.convertfiles.com/convert/ebook/EPUB-to-LIT.html
koornneef said:
@dkp1977 : thanks for working back and forth with us to get those bugs out of the code!
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You're welcome. I'm enjoying using Tiny eBook Reader. Gotta find out though on which step all the umlauts get lost. Either it happens when converting from ePub to LIT (which I currently do with Calibre) or with the Tiny eBook Converter tool.
Update available.
Update to the Mango beta of Tiny eBook Reader with all the fixes and changes made in the Marketplace (NoDo) version.
Same URL as above.
Also updates Dropbox, Coding4Fun, and a few other DLLs for Mango compatibility -- so all the prompt and password boxes should work again without crashing.
Now supports the back-tile (as before) and fast task switching.
Again, this version is MANGO only. It's also the pubCenter supported (free) version.
You can play this version 'till December. By then, Mango should be out (for everyone but out AT&T Focus!)
BIG thanks to all those submitting problem reports, files that don't work, and general comments!
ePub conversion is causing grief. Keep finding files that don't work. Sorry if it's taking a bit, but better to get it right than buggy!
Have a good one!
so what format works best with the reader? i can convert my files, but would like to know what would be best to convert to?
The Windows Phone 7 version takes only .TeBR format directly.
The short answer is: If you can download a LIT file directly, go for that file and open it in the Converter.
Most formats compress as a stream, and so become slow near the end of a large book. TeBR format is uses chunkified compression to provide fast response even in very large books.
The converter program will best convert .LIT files into TeBR with Table of Contents, Cover Image, etc. all intact. That c++ code for LIT has been in the Windows Mobile version of the Reader for years and is pretty robust and stable.
In fact, you should be able to 'Open' a LIT file via File Explorer or Internet Explorer and it will open in the converter, convert and arrive in your DropBox.
But you can also build a book by dropping several HTML or TXT files into the converter. It will treat each file as a chapter in the Table of Contents. Drop a PNG or JPG as the first item and that will be the cover image.
FictionBook (FB2) is the least supported and converts the text and contents only. No images.
When ePub is (finally) supported, it should be on par with LIT files.
Hi koornneef,
the app is really nice but not so the lit-tebr converter (I presume that the problem is the converter).
I'm Italian thus in my language there are a lot of chars like à, ò, ù, etc. and they are not visible (accented vowels are replaced by spaces) in the final converted ebook.
Thanks
Hi keres7
We've come across a few ways that the text in LIT files are encoded.. Maybe a new one, or we broke the code somewhere.
If it's possible, could you send a copy of one of the LIT files to support at
info
@
goldencrater.com
I'll get one of the guys to take a look at it. If you're having a problem, then others are too.
thanks!
koornneef, I sent to the email indicated two LIT files.
Let me know if you have received them and if you are experiencing the same issue.
Truly I don't see any reason to create e-reader without epub support. We are living in XXI century now; time of txt, asc, tec etc. etc. texts is gone (thanks, Lord!) epub + OPDS - what's how the e-reading suppose to work today.
We all appreciate developer's hard work and are grateful and donate / buy when available, however with all the converting, I just don't feel moved to support this app. I would like to have full .rtf, .fb2, .lit, .txt, .pdf etc support without converting. All my ebooks which I enjoyed when back at WM 6.5 are either .rtf, .fb2 or .txt. I hope that a newer version of this reader would support them all. If I missed something regarding formats on previous posts, please let me know.
P.S. I don't mean any disrespect or harm with my comments.
@Pharmako
Thanks for your comments.
No disrespect taken. Feedback from users is appreciated. We're looking to make the best product you people want to use.
It's been a few hard decisions with many internal arguments. Let me outline some of the thoughts and maybe with user feedback we can come to solutions that everyone likes.
In PocketPC/WM5+ it was easy to support file types. Everyone had access to the file system -- users and code alike. Not so in WP7, so we had to create a way to get the books from your desktop to the phone.
At first we were going to use the Tine Reader Online servers to handle books. So, the decision was made that if we had to push the files into the cloud, we might as well just convert them into internal format. After talking with users, we decided to go first with a non-subscription (free) model -- hence Dropbox (SkyDrive was not available due to its Terms.)
Even Zune and iTunes will convert some content before placing on the device. Not that what they are doing is right for everyone, but this does seem to be the trend in the market.
Once we removed all the logic for HTML, paragraph reflowing (now done in the converter), and LIT, we found that we could repaginate a book almost 3 times faster. Change the font, and jump to the end of the book and you'll see what I mean. The reading paginates one page in front of your current page. If you jump ahead, it's got to figure out all the pages that come before.
We also handle Unicode character storage better than HTML, ePub and LIT do – it’s just in the way we store it.
We figured (originally) that if you needed a program to get the files to the service then who cared what format they were actually read in. And the program could later add new formats (as we did with adding ePub after the release.) I suppose with Dropbox, it's a little more obvious what we're doing now.
I was just looking at the converter and there are a few things broken. You should be able to open a ePub or LIT directly from the web and have it convert and put in Dropbox -- or even double click a file on the local drive. It looks like this isn't working. Also, the 'open' dialog doesn’t list FB2, ePub and LIT formats. These will have to be fixed.
Would some streamlining help? An option to Pre-accept password/drm and legal warning, and if you open a LIT, ePub, FB2 it simply does the convert?
Do we need to add bulk operations? (either multiple file drop or select a folder?)
Text is a bit harder to streamline. You may want to include author and a cover image. You'll definitely was the title. Too often I see text files as BOOK0023a.txt or some such. Not much help if we use the file name as a title. Thoughts?
We might be able to figure out the MOBI format. Trying to choose between that and Palmdoc/PDB. These can be all added without changing the reader itself.
What are the thoughts on this board?
BTW. The reader is being localized into 6 languages. Just waiting on the translations.
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@Pharmako
Thanks for your comments.
No disrespect taken. Feedback from users is appreciated. We're looking to make the best product you people want to use.
It's been a few hard decisions with many internal arguments. Let me outline some of the thoughts and maybe with user feedback we can come to solutions that everyone likes.
In PocketPC/WM5+ it was easy to support file types. Everyone had access to the file system -- users and code alike. Not so in WP7, so we had to create a way to get the books from your desktop to the phone.
At first we were going to use the Tine Reader Online servers to handle books. So, the decision was made that if we had to push the files into the cloud, we might as well just convert them into internal format. After talking with users, we decided to go first with a non-subscription (free) model -- hence Dropbox (SkyDrive was not available due to its Terms.)
Even Zune and iTunes will convert some content before placing on the device. Not that what they are doing is right for everyone, but this does seem to be the trend in the market.
Once we removed all the logic for HTML, paragraph reflowing (now done in the converter), and LIT, we found that we could repaginate a book almost 3 times faster. Change the font, and jump to the end of the book and you'll see what I mean. The reading paginates one page in front of your current page. If you jump ahead, it's got to figure out all the pages that come before.
We also handle Unicode character storage better than HTML, ePub and LIT do – it’s just in the way we store it.
We figured (originally) that if you needed a program to get the files to the service then who cared what format they were actually read in. And the program could later add new formats (as we did with adding ePub after the release.) I suppose with Dropbox, it's a little more obvious what we're doing now.
I was just looking at the converter and there are a few things broken. You should be able to open a ePub or LIT directly from the web and have it convert and put in Dropbox -- or even double click a file on the local drive. It looks like this isn't working. Also, the 'open' dialog doesn’t list FB2, ePub and LIT formats. These will have to be fixed.
Would some streamlining help? An option to Pre-accept password/drm and legal warning, and if you open a LIT, ePub, FB2 it simply does the convert?
Do we need to add bulk operations? (either multiple file drop or select a folder?)
Text is a bit harder to streamline. You may want to include author and a cover image. You'll definitely was the title. Too often I see text files as BOOK0023a.txt or some such. Not much help if we use the file name as a title. Thoughts?
We might be able to figure out the MOBI format. Trying to choose between that and Palmdoc/PDB. These can be all added without changing the reader itself.
What are the thoughts on this board?
BTW. The reader is being localized into 6 languages. Just waiting on the translations.
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Thank you for the reply. I think that I got a grip on how things go on WP7 after your thoughts. I think that, yes a: "Would some streamlining help? An option to Pre-accept password/drm and legal warning, and if you open a LIT, ePub, FB2 it simply does the convert?" would help, I mean if the converter is built in within the app in WP.
How can I sync ebooks with my Windows Phone?? Is the dropbox sync the only way??
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Sorry, reformatting (can't seem to mod the title):
Name: Tiny eBook Reader, Mango release.
Tiny eBook Reader allows you to read eBooks with the formatting you choose. We've put most of the features that were in the Windows Mobile version and made a Windows Phone 7 reader. We've taken the lastest submission to Marketplace (it's still going through testing) and compiled it for Mango.
It has most of the fixes that will be in the NoDo Marketplace version, but is compiled for 7.1 beta 2 and uses Mango extended Back tile.
Pin the app and it will display the last opened eBook on the back of the tile.
Another app to show off the cool new features of Mango.
Any bugs, feedback, please email using address in app About, and put MANGO in the subject.
(these are screencaps from the emulator, with photo book backgrounds.)
Download Link:
*This will not run on NoDo devices*
Anyone interested in playing with this version of Tiny eBook Reader for Mango you can download the XAP here:
http://www.goldencrater.com/Tiny_eBook_Reader-Mango.xap
Of course, "since only registered developers have Mango", you'll know how to sideload the app. And, until Marketplace starts accepting Mango verisons for submission...
Enjoy!!
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So where can we get the books to use with app. I can only find like amazon ebooks and what not.
Can this read PDF books ? I need something better than the Adobe PDF reader....
How do I upload my books to this ?
Well, the e-book conversion tools seemed to encounter errors with Chinese or Japanese ebooks conversion.........though the software in WP7 was able to show Chinese or Japanese fonts.
Hope there will be workarounds on the software.
(By directly clicking the .epub file will perform the conversion, however all characters are changed to 8bit ASCII characters, this will make the converted books simply unreadable.)