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[Q] ereader with split pages

I hope this isn't a duplicate thread. I used the search feature but couldn't find any answer to this particular ereader feature...
I'm looking for an ereader that will split pages when in landscape and also has the page turning animation. Obvoiusly, the google books app has the features... but, as has been mentioned in another thread, you can sideload books into the app.
I've tried aldiko, moon+, and laputa, but none of them do these things.....
Any clues? Just another early adoption issue?

guitarwizard said:
I hope this isn't a duplicate thread. I used the search feature but couldn't find any answer to this particular ereader feature...
I'm looking for an ereader that will split pages when in landscape and also has the page turning animation. Obvoiusly, the google books app has the features... but, as has been mentioned in another thread, you can sideload books into the app.
I've tried aldiko, moon+, and laputa, but none of them do these things.....
Any clues? Just another early adoption issue?
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Nook reader. No night mode though

Doh! I feel like an idiot for not trying the nook application! Thanks though. This looks perfect!

guitarwizard said:
Doh! I feel like an idiot for not trying the nook application! Thanks though. This looks perfect!
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... but if Iam not mistaken you can't side load books in the nook app either. I can't remember if cool reader has these features although I remember it having some cool ones (not all of which I could get to work though ) still maybe its worth checking out.
Its far from perfect but its another option that is available at present. hopefully a honeycomb optimized app will show up soon.

So where do you get books from on the standard reader if they can't be sideloaded?
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IndivisibleP said:
... but if Iam not mistaken you can't side load books in the nook app either. I can't remember if cool reader has these features although I remember it having some cool ones (not all of which I could get to work though ) still maybe its worth checking out.
Its far from perfect but its another option that is available at present. hopefully a honeycomb optimized app will show up soon.
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I believe that readers that use Adobe DRM management will use a folder called "Digital Editions" on the internal or external SD card. Many readers do. You can always sideload books by putting them in this folder.
Btw can someone post the Nook Reader apk. For some reason it isn't available on the market in Europe. Thanks.

appelflap said:
I believe that readers that use Adobe DRM management will use a folder called "Digital Editions" on the internal or external SD card. Many readers do. You can always sideload books by putting them in this folder.
Btw can someone post the Nook Reader apk. For some reason it isn't available on the market in Europe. Thanks.
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For the nook app, the folder is called "my documents" so yes, side loading is not only possible, but very easy.
As far as the APk, just google search nook for android and it will take you to the B&N.

guitarwizard said:
For the nook app, the folder is called "my documents" so yes, side loading is not only possible, but very easy.
As far as the APk, just google search nook for android and it will take you to the B&N.
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Great! so it is possible to side load books.
I've searched yesterday on the internet but couldn't find it. The B&N site gives a pointer to the Android market. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nook-for-android/379002287/

tell me if you are able to get cover art in the books you sideload into the nook app. I have the same files on my nook app and my girlfriend's real nook, and her displays the cover art while mine doesnt.

Help with e readers

Hey all. I have a rooted NC running CM7. I have alot of books side loaded on my NC. Ive noticed the Nook app has a hard time finding these side loaded books. It only finds them when they are on my SD card and even then it takes several minutes of syncing for them to be found. What is a good reader I can use that can read multiple formats? I want it to be able to find books anywhere in my NC i.e. SD card, documents folder, etc. What do you guys use? Thanks!

This could be good. How many of the coder types actually use the Nook Color for reading????

thegameksk said:
Hey all. I have a rooted NC running CM7. I have alot of books side loaded on my NC. Ive noticed the Nook app has a hard time finding these side loaded books. It only finds them when they are on my SD card and even then it takes several minutes of syncing for them to be found. What is a good reader I can use that can read multiple formats? I want it to be able to find books anywhere in my NC i.e. SD card, documents folder, etc. What do you guys use? Thanks!
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A lot of people use Aldiko, and/or Moon+ Reader. I like CoolReader, though for some reason it couldn't see books on the internal memory until several reboots after I installed it.

+1 for Aldiko
Works well, good layout, and can easily find and load books anywhere on the sdcard.

PDF Readers: Ezpdf reader and Adobe Reader (For scanned or non-ocr books)

diajohn said:
This could be good. How many of the coder types actually use the Nook Color for reading????
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Well, some of us do. I'm even buying ebooks from B&N, if for no other reason than to thank them for making a cheap tablet for me to use!

stolenmoment said:
Well, some of us do. I'm even buying ebooks from B&N, if for no other reason than to thank them for making a cheap tablet for me to use!
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I wholeheartedly agree and tell everyone who I recommend the nook to that I do this.

Still want to use rooted nook as a eBook reader

Now that I am rooted, I would still like to use it as a eBook reader, I downloaded the Kindle and the Nook App's to see which is better, what program is used to convert and send books to the device? I used to use Calibre but it wont read my nook anymore, any suggestions?

Calibre should still work just fine. I used it for several months with rooted stock and am now using it with CM7. Not sure why it wouldn't show up on yours, but I assure you it works great after root.

ok ill try it, I think the main problem im having is for some reason the nook show's up as a device on one laptop (doesn't have calibre and my eBook library) and it show's up on the one that doesn't... Usually 2 diff drives show up when i connect it..

King350z said:
Now that I am rooted, I would still like to use it as a eBook reader, I downloaded the Kindle and the Nook App's to see which is better, what program is used to convert and send books to the device? I used to use Calibre but it wont read my nook anymore, any suggestions?
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ebook reader??? Read Books??? I haven't heard of such a thing on this device in say....................Well, I can't rememeber!
LOL-Sorry I had to chime in and say that!
Good for you, I do remember hearing that the nook can be used to read BOOKS!
Peace

Did you root stock or flash a ROM? If you've rooted stock, you should be able to use the original reading interface for epub, pdf, etc. The kindle app works great on it too, jsut drop the files in the kindle folder on your sd card. If you've flashed a ROM and you're computer isn't seeing it, make sure to open the notification and turn on usb storage to mount to the computer. If you still can't see your device after that, you'll probably need to reflash the ROM. (It sounds like calibre isn't recognizing it as a nook, which leads to scenario 2, and you'll just have to maually convert files in calibre then drag/drop or copy/paste onto the nook).

Drop books in updated calibre program on computer, start server on calibre, open calibre app on nook, connect to server, download book, import to kindle/aldiko/nook app::#winning
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I flashed A rom (cm7.0.3) Ive been checking out the Kindle App but it's kind of slow but managable, I wish I would have rooted it the other way, thanks for the help either way

Yeah I remember too, glad your observation skills up too par
- Peace dawg
Jimbo67 said:
ebook reader??? Read Books??? I haven't heard of such a thing on this device in say....................Well, I can't rememeber!
LOL-Sorry I had to chime in and say that!
Good for you, I do remember hearing that the nook can be used to read BOOKS!
Peace
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I use calibre, in combination with dropbox and Aldiko. I have calibre sync to a dropbox folder, and then I just use Aldiko to import the converted ebook. With the new versions of CM7 nighltlies, and wifi off, I have been getting good battery life as well.

Nook e-reader app
I downloaded the Nook android app from the market, but I can't get it to work with my CM7 uSD card boot?

Nook App update
My credit card expiration date had passed and I couldn't get anything to download to the NC through its boot or to the SD CM7 boot nook app. I updated my credit card info and I can download to both and the nook app works great, just like the one on my Droid X. Next I try to download an e-book from my public library.

ereader that support colored fonts

I'm fairly new to all of this so forgive me if this is a stupid question.
I'm using uSD cm7 on my NC and loving it. I frequently use word documents with colored text for presentations. I found a software (calibre) that converts documents to epub format but I lose the colored fonts when I view it in aldiko. I've got a friend who is doing the same thing only on an Ipad and his colors stay. Am I doing something wrong or should I be using a different ereader or converter?

calixt0 said:
I'm fairly new to all of this so forgive me if this is a stupid question.
I'm using uSD cm7 on my NC and loving it. I frequently use word documents with colored text for presentations. I found a software (calibre) that converts documents to epub format but I lose the colored fonts when I view it in aldiko. I've got a friend who is doing the same thing only on an Ipad and his colors stay. Am I doing something wrong or should I be using a different ereader or converter?
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If you are talking about Microsoft Office documents (doc, docx, ppt,pptx, etc.) you can get the app called DocumentsToGo or QuickOffice. This way you won't have to convert them into epubs. I personally recommend QuickOffice it's better looking
Edit: Scratch QuickOffice since the one in the market works only with version 3.0 (honeycomb) and up. I got my copy from someone who posted it in the forum, which was extracted from another device...maybe a search could find the post.
Second edit: Check out this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=934916&highlight=Notion+Ink you can get a working version of QO for the nook there.

jgaf said:
If you are talking about Microsoft Office documents (doc, docx, ppt,pptx, etc.) you can get the app called DocumentsToGo or QuickOffice. This way you won't have to convert them into epubs. I personally recommend QuickOffice it's better looking
Edit: Scratch QuickOffice since the one in the market works only with version 3.0 (honeycomb) and up. I got my copy from someone who posted it in the forum, which was extracted from another device...maybe a search could find the post.
Second edit: Check out this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=934916&highlight=Notion+Ink you can get a working version of QO for the nook there.
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I actually prefer using something easy like a book. I may just end up going back to the nook color software that is easy to use and works like I want it to. I can't get the nook app to find my loaded ebooks only stuff from Barnes and Noble

calixt0 said:
I actually prefer using something easy like a book. I may just end up going back to the nook color software that is easy to use and works like I want it to. I can't get the nook app to find my loaded ebooks only stuff from Barnes and Noble
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Ok, this is how I got my epubs working in the Nook:
sdcard/Nook/My Documents
I dropped my epubs in that folder, then went into the nook app and refreshed (they should be under "My files"
Hope this works.

jgaf said:
Ok, this is how I got my epubs working in the Nook:
sdcard/Nook/My Documents
I dropped my epubs in that folder, then went into the nook app and refreshed (they should be under "My files"
Hope this works.
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Ok I can't get my downloaded books or epubs to show in the nook app on the android side of my uSD card cm7. when I tried putting my epubs in the my documents folder of nook it wouldn't allow it.
Please help.

calixt0 said:
Ok I can't get my downloaded books or epubs to show in the nook app on the android side of my uSD card cm7. when I tried putting my epubs in the my documents folder of nook it wouldn't allow it.
Please help.
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How are you transferring your files? If your are moving them from inside the nook using a file manager, then use Root Explorer and when in the documents folder press the button that says mount R/W and try to paste the files that way.

jgaf said:
How are you transferring your files? If your are moving them from inside the nook using a file manager, then use Root Explorer and when in the documents folder press the button that says mount R/W and try to paste the files that way.
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I was using the usb cable. I got it now thanks. not sure what different happened but finally it worked.

Add your own books to the Kindle

I use Calibre to convert books to mobi. If you want to put them in the clowd then you want to change the extension to .doc or something. Once it is on your Kindle machine change the extension back to mobi.
Here is an article on how to trick the Kindle into letting you read it on their reader.
macworld search macs_kindle_fire_and_managing_files (too young to post links)
Another thing I have heard but not tried is that if you log off your kindle and someone else signs in then you get their books. Not something I would do myself because I demonstrate my dissatisfaction with pricing by not buying but not by violating copyright laws. However, i don't blame anyone else for doing it.
cheers

Thank you
Thanks for sharing this. I hadn't heard Calibre before today. Very cool

Or you can just send the.mobi file to [email protected]
They then show under docs tab and read just fine
Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk

Or perhaps plug in the usb cable, go to the drive letter, books folder and drag something over...

kick069 said:
Or you can just send the.mobi file to [email protected]
They then show under docs tab and read just fine
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Interesting that the worked for you. When I tried it I was blocked from downloading it to my device. Maybe I will try it again.

kick069 said:
Or you can just send the.mobi file to [email protected]
They then show under docs tab and read just fine
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you were right, it worked. The first time i sent it I accidentally sent my epub version of the book instead of mobi. [embarrassed]

Any ideas how to get them out of the documents and into the books? Id like to have all my books in one place, the Books area, and my files in the documents folder...
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MayfairDROID said:
Any ideas how to get them out of the documents and into the books? Id like to have all my books in one place, the Books area, and my files in the documents folder...
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A Little More searching and I found this. It works: seperis. dreamwidth. org/ 116360. html
Reference
If your non-Amazon-bought fic is currently only showing in Docs or half in Docs and half in Books and you have no idea why (except now you do!), easy solution. This will work for any mobi file.
If you use Calibre--and if you read ebooks, you probably should grab it anyway--this is how you sideload by USB and get it into Books.
1.) Delete all non-Amazon books from the Books folder.
2.) Load all those books into Calibre.
3.) Highlight all books and click on Convert Books.
4.) Go down to the blue arrow that says Mobi Output
5.) The last bit there that says Kindle Options. Below it is Personal Doc Tag. Clear whatever is in there completely. No text.
6.) Convert.
7.) Make sure your Kindle is still connected and choose 'Save only Mobi format to disk in a single directory'. This is because Kindle Fire right now does not do subdirectories. If you have a cover, let it go too.
8.)Disconnect your Kindle and look at Books. Your books are there. Your covers are there. Mine is squished, I do not know why. But! I will find out.
This is five minutes later and the cover is no longer squished. IDEK.
When Calibre adds book to your Books folder, you can go in and move the cover to the covers folder in there. Apparently, it may work either way but I'm remarkably anal about that sort of thing.
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Thanks!
I've been using Calibre for a while to convert my books to mobi for use on Kindle's. you are right on that you have to
-go into calibre
-convert/reconvert to .mobi
-click on the MOBI Output
-clear out the "Personal Doc Tag", mine had [PDOC] in it
-put it in the Books folder on the Kindle fire it worked great!
I'm really bummed out that you can't put your books in subfolders under the books directory. Regular kindle has been able to do this for years! This is really messy when you have dozens or hundreds of books.
However, maybe I'm making too much of this because I don't see myself ever using this to read books. I have a regular kindle for that, and I just like the eInk better.

Nice, but on some ebooks the formatting is off and some images don't load correctly any idea why?

I used this site a couple times, worked great.
http://www.convertfiles.com/convert/ebook/EPUB-to-MOBI.html
I just plug the kindle to my pc and put them in the book folder. Subfolders would be pretty nice.

I can't get books to show up, in documents or otherwise. When I go to the store, I can find them in "home", it says they are on the device, but offline, nothing is there. I have tried Calibre, and still nothing. I have tried unregistering, and re registering, still nothing.

I found I have to put my books in the sdcard/kindle folder. And only put the .mobi file in there.
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