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Thread ID: 146394	2018-07-22 02:09:00	Ebooks	piroska (17583)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1451887	2018-07-26 07:15:00	UB reader is OK Ken	kenj (9738)
1451888	2018-07-26 21:55:00	Tablet came. Tried all the recommended readers, and a couple of others. Discovered epub displays not aligned nicely, and pdf is better. hated them all, downloaded the kindle app in the end and that one I did like, other than it's insistence I link to their bookstore. Sigh...maybe I should have bought a Kindle...	piroska (17583)
1451889	2018-07-26 23:03:00	I've been using an iPad mini for about 3 years, and now a regular ipad. Epubs are perfectly readable, sometimes a little unstructured....but depends where they are obtained from...... Books from overrdrive (the library) are much better quality. I also read a bunch of PDF magazines. Mostly it a matter of finding an app you're happy with, that has a look you're ok with.	psycik (12851)
1451890	2018-07-27 02:38:00	I don't use Calibre on the tablet - only on the PC for organising and converting books. I use Kindle for PC on the PC, and the Kindle app on my tablet, for Kindle books. I use ePlatform for library books, not because I want to, but because that is what my library has decided we have to use. I don't like it but have no choice. What you use as an eReader depends upon what you want to do with things like formatting, font size, dictionary, bookmarks etc (it also has to do with me refusing to use a free eReader if it bombards you with ads). At some stage in the past, I started using an eReader that did everything I wanted in this regard. I originally used the free version, but then upgraded to the paid version for some reason that escapes me now. I think it was called Mantano Reader, but on my tablet after a number of version upgrades it is called Bookari Premium. You can get it from the playstore, but I don't know how much it costs now. I did a quick internet search and see that there is still a Mantano Reader - it might be worth your while trying it out because I thought it was great for changing formatting, fonts and font sizes etc when I first had it. Exactly how I have ended up with Bookari Premium instead of Mantano I cannot recall. There is a commonly used eReader called Bluefire Reader - it is free, but I don't like it because it has no flexibility. Unfortunately ePlatform effectively demands that you have it installed if you want to borrow library books from any libraries that use ePlatform (something to do with showing that you are registered with Adobe for DRM?). I have developed a weird work around that means that any books I borrow get downloaded to Bookari, so that even though Bluefire Reader is on the tablet, I never use it. Interesting that you are finding .pdfs better - in the past I found they were all over the place so I stopped using them. I find that .epub files are usually the best. Have you come across the MobileRead forum? It has a multitude of free ebooks that are out of copyright, so you may find some of the old sci fi books are on there. It has become less useful over the past year or two because most of the books going on there are now in German rather than English and I don't understand German. MobileRead is a a forum that may be useful to you for asking/debating questions about eReaders.	John H (8)
1451891	2018-07-27 02:46:00	I just checked playstore and see that Bookari Lite is the free version and the only thing it doesn't do is record annotations you may want to add to books. It gets a 4.2 rating. Bookari is made by Mantano.	John H (8)
1451892	2018-07-27 03:46:00	Interesting that you are finding .pdfs better - in the past I found they were all over the place so I stopped using them. I find that .epub files are usually the best. Nope, the PDFs were formatted great, left aligned, the EPUB kind of like it was centered, but it wasn't, messed with it for ages. Whatever....the Kindle app worked best, something to do with the apps I guess. I don't care about free, I will get some as ebooks, but most of my Sf still in paper. Don't care where either, the cheapest shop. Plugging it into the PC was simple and much, much easier than using the annoying tablet to d/l and sort files etc. So thats good, Calibre to do whatever I need to with them, then onto the tablet and no wifi anything with it.	piroska (17583)
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