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EzPdf for reading

Hello
I am using ezPdf however there are some things that i am wondering if other people are handling them better....
When reading in landscape is it possible to have two pages side by side?
Also is there a setting fir the program to load all the pages at beginning in order not to wait at some points fir pages to load?
The other issue is with a specific pdf. It is longer that the nook and i can only turn pages using volume buttons. Anyine else having this issue?
Thanks so much for your time!
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Fekish said:
Hello
I am using ezPdf however there are some things that i am wondering if other people are handling them better....
When reading in landscape is it possible to have two pages side by side?
Also is there a setting fir the program to load all the pages at beginning in order not to wait at some points fir pages to load?
The other issue is with a specific pdf. It is longer that the nook and i can only turn pages using volume buttons. Anyine else having this issue?
Thanks so much for your time!
Sent from my NOOKcolor using Tapatalk
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Yeah, I love ezpdf for books and journal articles, but some things I wish they would fix (I suggest emailing them with your concerns).
If it's longer, either volume or tap the bottom right of the screen where the arrow is.
Can't do 2 pages side by side. Not sure any pdf reader will do that (I've tried a lot).
As far as loading pages goes, there's some adaptive way they load them. You cannot load all at once due to buffering and overall system slowness would ensue, but I think it loads the best out of any of them

ace7196 said:
Yeah, I love ezpdf for books and journal articles, but some things I wish they would fix (I suggest emailing them with your concerns).
If it's longer, either volume or tap the bottom right of the screen where the arrow is.
Can't do 2 pages side by side. Not sure any pdf reader will do that (I've tried a lot).
As far as loading pages goes, there's some adaptive way they load them. You cannot load all at once due to buffering and overall system slowness would ensue, but I think it loads the best out of any of them
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Ok thanks...
A bit dissapointing that we cannot see side by side pages
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Fekish said:
Ok thanks...
A bit dissapointing that we cannot see side by side pages
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My biggest gripe with Ezpdf reader is the fact that you can't browse for your files and that it won't browse past the sd card. Really annoying that I have 3-4gbs of books on EMMC/Media and it can't find them... Yet Adobe Reader can...

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My biggest gripe with Ezpdf reader is the fact that you can't browse for your files and that it won't browse past the sd card. Really annoying that I have 3-4gbs of books on EMMC/Media and it can't find them... Yet Adobe Reader can...
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same here, thats why i dont use ezpdf.

[Q] PoV / Vega and PDFs in portrait

I'm looking to pick up a PoV / Vega, mostly for the viewing of graphically intensive, A4-sized PDF documents but since the usual stockists in the UK no longer seem to have any of these on display I can't try it out for myself..
..so can anyone comment on PDF text readability in full screen and portrait? Does the screen width of 600 necessitate constant zooming, and does the viewing angle make it a generally difficult or unpleasant experience?

Hi there
I use ezPDF to view magazines on my vega. It does a good job, there are black bars top and bottom, viewing A4 docs in portrait due to the 16:9 screen. But the text is perfectly viewable without zooming in. If the PDF is large in size and contains a lot of images, it does take the vega a second to switch pages. I can only put this down to the amount of ram in the vega, or a problem with ezPDF.
On a different note comic reader mobi works great on the vega. If you like that sort of thing...
Hope it helps
O_G

On a different note comic reader mobi works great on the vega. If you like that sort of thing...
Hope it helps
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I do.. and it does!
I mostly plan to replace my bookshelf of roleplaying games with PDF equivalents (thankfully most publishers launch print and PDF versions of their products at the same time, now) and I'll be changing over my magazine subscriptions to PDF downloads once they become available.
So it seems like the Vega is going to be a good choice. Thanks again!

I'll echo most of what OG said. ezPDF reader is the best, Adobe's own one runs a little slow on it and the touch screen goes a bit funky. I would say the only problems with viewing PDFs (or anything else) in portrait are the 16:9 orientation (most tablets go for 16:10 now, or 4:3 for iPad) leaving so much unused space, and the viewing angle. The viewing angle isn't much of a problem in landscape but in portrait I can't actually seem to find an angle where it actually looks right... at all. If your PDF is just black type on white you probably won't notice though.

What is your Experience of Web Browsing With The Galaxy Note?

I find that the 5.3 inch high definition screen on the Note means there is usually no need for panning and zooming whilst Web browsing. I normally see a whole Web page in portrait view and if the text is too small to read or select with a finger then landscape view plus the S-Pen usually works. I am using the Dolphin browser where you can easily select Desktop and full page viewing. Of course a large Tablet is better, but no use for carrying around as a phone.

it would be much better if the default browser had a more permanent way of defaulting to desktop versions of pages.
but with other browsers, its a better experience.

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I find that the 5.3 inch high definition screen on the Note means there is usually no need for panning and zooming whilst Web browsing. I normally see a whole Web page in portrait view and if the text is too small to read or select with a finger then landscape view plus the S-Pen usually works. I am using the Dolphin browser where you can easily select Desktop and full page viewing. Of course a large Tablet is better, but no use for carrying around as a phone.
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I have the same setup and find the experience a pleasant one.

Gaugerer said:
I find that the 5.3 inch high definition screen on the Note means there is usually no need for panning and zooming whilst Web browsing. I normally see a whole Web page in portrait view and if the text is too small to read or select with a finger then landscape view plus the S-Pen usually works. I am using the Dolphin browser where you can easily select Desktop and full page viewing. Of course a large Tablet is better, but no use for carrying around as a phone.
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It's much easier to browse web sites on the Note. I can see much more of the site in the screen and find little if any need to go look on a computer instead.

After testing all the browsers the boat browser mini is speeediest by far... Haveused it for months... Try others... Always come back.

[Q] Is the Nook right for me?

I'm close to buying a Nook Simple Touch. These are my criteria and what I'm expecting:
I already have an iPhone. I want the Nook mostly for reading eBooks and viewing lecture slides in class.
I have owned a Palm Zire 71 before. How is the IR touch screen like? I'm not expecting the responsiveness of a capacitive touchscreen. Does it work by detecting pressure like a Palm? Does it have multi-touch? It's not really necessary as long as pan and zoom can function well. Can you annotate on it like on a Palm?
This is taken from what I posted in another forum:
How's the contrast of E-Ink Pearl? Is the background the colour of recycled paper or closer to optical white?
I feel a Nook is good value for money because I actually buy classic novels at 3.50 USD a pop and Project Gutenberg will save me money in the long run. Furthermore, my textbooks (limited to 10% of the content to comply with Australian copyright laws) have been put up online.
Also for viewing lecture slides. I print out 6 PowerPoint slides a page on my B&W laser printer and at that size, the diagrams in the slides are not clear. I only need the touch for zoom and pan. Rather than annotating on my printouts (which can be 6 pages or longer), I could save paper by viewing them on the eReader and taking notes separately on a sheet of paper.
My classmates use iPads or laptops in class. It's hard to navigate slides on a laptop by scrolling. Love the smooth navigation of the iPad but on both devices they struggle to type notes/draw using a capacitive stylus. Not to mention the temptation to browse Facebook/play games on them!
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What Android apps run on it after rooting? I'm thinking Chess and simple word-processing apps. Not expecting Angry Birds, but would something like amateur Angry Birds clones (so many of these on iOS e.g. Angry Pig Daddy) work because they have very low framerates?
Can I load files from Dropbox instead of over USB?
Hardware keyboards need to be connected by USB, right? I guess USB headsets won't work because the Nook lacks an audio chip.
Can it be compared to a Palm (albeit with a greyscale eInk screen)? For reading eBooks, browsing the internet in B&W and running simple [Android] apps and simple annotation.
Would the Nook Simple Touch meet my needs?

Technically multitouch is supported with the latest update, but I have yet to see it actually work.
The touch screen is pretty responsive, but a pen won't work; you need something bigger. There's also no film over the screen, and the actual IR beams are just above the screen, so if you want you don't have to touch the actual screen.
As for contrast, the color of the screen when blank is pretty close to white, with just a very slight shade of brown.
The Nook runs Android 2.1, so most apps won't be available, but I use my Nook to take notes in class (high school) using a free office app. Angry birds is available and is pretty playable if you change the orientation and turn off the background from the main menu.
The Dropbox app is in the Market, and I think there's an app that will sync folders on your SDCard (or maybe your Nook's file system) with Dropbox.
I also have a Palm Zire (31?), and I still use it to record homework and for its calendar; haven't found a decent working calendar app yet for my Nook. Maybe I'll just make one sometime.

How do you zoom and pan? By dragging on scroll bars?
I'm more and more impressed!
I'm amazed that Angry Birds is playable! I've seen the YouTube video. Why do you need to change the orientation? To decrease the resolution? How about instead making the app run in a 320 * 480 window like a low-end Android phone?
(Can't post links yet. Search "nook simple touch stylus". It's the Blogspot blog in the first result.) Nice! I'm leaning towards using a paintbrush! Maybe I'll trim the barrel of a fat pen and stick a silicone earplug in there like what he did in the first photo.
Do you type in class on the touchscreen keyboard or using an external keyboard?
I had a B&W Palm Zire 31 as well from when my mum used it for work. Not the same as yours.

Googie2149 said:
haven't found a decent working calendar app yet for my Nook.
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Did you try Calendar Pad? Working fine for me.

Has anyone's Nook ever broke? I'm buying it from someone who's bringing it in to Malaysia from the US. I have to ship it to B&N and B&N will deliver it to a US address, which will forward it to me in Malaysia.
Can you boost the contrast in Android so that similar colours won't have the same shade (look 'flat') when converted to Grayscale?
Does JavaIDEdroid work on a rooted Nook? The site says it seems to run okay on Android 2.1. I just want to use this to do light editing on assignments (I study CompSci). All my Java programs are only command-line based.
ETA: I might have found a good stylus! The rubber tip of Pilot FriXion pens (that are used to erase the ink by friction).

tehriddler said:
How do you zoom and pan? By dragging on scroll bars?
I'm more and more impressed!
I'm amazed that Angry Birds is playable! I've seen the YouTube video. Why do you need to change the orientation? To decrease the resolution? How about instead making the app run in a 320 * 480 window like a low-end Android phone?
(Can't post links yet. Search "nook simple touch stylus". It's the Blogspot blog in the first result.) Nice! I'm leaning towards using a paintbrush! Maybe I'll trim the barrel of a fat pen and stick a silicone earplug in there like what he did in the first photo.
Do you type in class on the touchscreen keyboard or using an external keyboard?
I had a B&W Palm Zire 31 as well from when my mum used it for work. Not the same as yours.
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For zoom, I haven't had much luck with it, but the office app I use has a slider for zoom (Kingsoft Office. Terrible, but works). I use GO Keyboard to type, and after installing it to an Android emulator to get to the settings it works well.
I change the orientation so the screen refreshes more than once every two seconds, but it does make trails to be made behind the birds. When a bird jumps while waiting to be launched, it can only be described as a flaming bird.
The Zire 21 was B/W, the 31 is blue and has a color screen. (I have both for some reason)

good for epub. screen is small for detailed slides.
tehriddler said:
I'm close to buying a Nook Simple Touch. These are my criteria and what I'm expecting:
I already have an iPhone. I want the Nook mostly for reading eBooks and viewing lecture slides in class.
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The nook is great for reading ebooks (epub) -- that's what it was designed for. PDF support is very disappointing (IMO). zoom is extremely limited.
This assumes you are using the default app on a stock nook. I'm still working on getting mine to run other apps.
The small screen size might be disappointing for viewing lecture slides.
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tehriddler said:
Has anyone's Nook ever broke?
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yes.
The nook is pretty fragile. I recommend buying a good case.
The "designed for nook" case in the store looked to me like it would pop open too easily, so I got a Kindle case with a zipper (M-Edge Latitude). It's a tight fit, but it works.
Kindle 4 and Nook Simple Touch have the same H and W dimensions, but the Nook is thicker (11.9 mm vs 8.6 mm)

I just bought my Nook ST yesterday! I love it but I find the ghosting and the blinking refresh annoying and I hope the NoRefresh tweak would fix that.
How do you zoom in on images in the stock app? Can you pan/scroll instead of turning the page? IS there any way to rotate so that PDFs display in landscape mode?
Does highlighting work in PDFs? I can get the text to zoom in but am unable to select the text.
I'm holding off rooting until I get a microSD card. I also don't have a microSD card reader on me at the moment. Can you just write the disk image when the card is in the Nook? I see an external drive show up in Windows Explorer.

tehriddler said:
I just bought my Nook ST yesterday! I love it but I find the ghosting and the blinking refresh annoying and I hope the NoRefresh tweak would fix that.
How do you zoom in on images in the stock app? Can you pan/scroll instead of turning the page? IS there any way to rotate so that PDFs display in landscape mode?
Does highlighting work in PDFs? I can get the text to zoom in but am unable to select the text.
I'm holding off rooting until I get a microSD card. I also don't have a microSD card reader on me at the moment. Can you just write the disk image when the card is in the Nook? I see an external drive show up in Windows Explorer.
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Don't write the image to the mSD when it is in the Nook! This will damage your Nook! /bold text
I don't think you can zoom in the stock reader, but when you root you can get a PDF app and use that, and you can force the screen to display in landscape when you need to. Also, you cannot pan in the stock reader, only pages.
As for NoRefresh, that app is advancing by leaps and bounds, and should work well for most apps.

Okay I hear you. I just read the warning in another thread after posting this about potentially bricking the Nook when writing the disk image to the microSD inside.
Is the screen refresh annoying in third-party PDF readers? Would be a shame to lose colour depth to just black and white by using NoRefresh.

cceerrtt said:
Did you try Calendar Pad? Working fine for me.
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Thanks for that recommendation. Calendar Pad is a good replacement for the stock Android Calendar program. Not having a giant SD card image is nice.
Are you aware of a way to enable/disable specific account calendars that are displayed. I can do this on other devices with the stock app, but haven't found an equivalent function in Calendar Pad.

i think NST is just right for you.
I also have iphone and ipad. but they just for game or chatting.
NST is for reading.

bobstro said:
Thanks for that recommendation. Calendar Pad is a good replacement for the stock Android Calendar program. Not having a giant SD card image is nice.
Are you aware of a way to enable/disable specific account calendars that are displayed. I can do this on other devices with the stock app, but haven't found an equivalent function in Calendar Pad.
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Yes, use the stock Calendar application (with giant SDcard image) to select your calendars (menu -> More -> My Calendars). This setting has effect also for Calendar Pad.

Can't find a reader that allows scrolling or zooming.

So I recently rooted my nook using nook manager. However, I've been disappointed so far because I can't find a decent PDF app that allows zooming or scrolling.
I've already tried all the readers I could find via searchmarket or sideloading, I've got aldiko, ezpdf reader, temblast reader, and one just called reader. However none of them seem to allow zooming in or out, and if put in landscape mode everything is cut off and it only allows flipping pages, not scrolling. PDF's are simply unreadable. I just want to go into landscape mode and scroll regular, and zoom in or out if needed.
This guy seems scrolling and pinch zooming just fine with fastmode2 and APV, but I cannot find this "APV" app. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBcvWuWw_w
I did find fastmode2 here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39529578&postcount=140&nocache=1&z=7383330913478812
Can anyone point me in the direction of this apk or any other good reader app that will work?
PS: I'm not quite sure if I should have used a different method for the root, since I've seen some others out there that use clockworkmod to flash a new kernel.

I use Orion for PDFs. It both scrolls and zooms in either aspect.
Edit: you need multi-touch enabled to pinch-zoom

Thanks for the reply finally got it to work, thanks to your suggestion and reading that you were using Latuk's kernel.
If anyone else is having issues, heres what I did.
I was already rooted with Nook Manager, and had installed the GApps attack package.
Then I ended up using clockworkmod to install Latuk's kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43212551&postcount=164
For some reason it would simply fail to install giving me an error. I installed this 176 kernel first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35049488&postcount=93
Then installed Latuk's kernel.
I still did not have pinch zoom in any of my pdf readers (I had installed all the ones I could find, but apk's that work seem scarce). Luckily the recommendation for Orion viewer was a good one. Used the search market app to install it. Now I can put it in landscape, scroll, and zoom. Win!