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[Q] magazines?

Hey guys, so since Ive bought my tab, ive been trying to find a way to view my magazines on the tab similar to an ebook. I believe ive tried all of the ereader apps in the market (nook, b&n, aldiko...) but my issue is converting them. I use caliber to convert the magz from pdf to epub, and even pdf to mobi. but they dont take up the full screen. any ideas?

I use the official Adobe reader app (free), the built in Office app, and ezPDF (99c). EzPDF does page turning with an animation but it needs to cache the pages after it, so if you're flipping through a bunch of ads it can be pokey. Works really well for comics though.
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I work for a massive newspaper company here in the UK so I can get hundreds of different papers in PDF, the only problem is they are over 100Mb each, the Adobe Reader crashes and is unusable, I fine opening them in the office app works brilliantly

Although it is sub-optimal, another solution consists in converting each page of the PDF to a high-resolution JPEG image, zip all the images into a CBR file, and view using a comic book reader. I say it is sub-optimal because I much prefer reflowable text (EPUB or HTML), but some picture-rich magazine formats are sometimes more enjoyable in their full fixed-layout glory.

Netflix works great, my own videos don't

Netflix is working good. However on a side note, my videos I loaded to the \videos folder don't show up in my library. I assume it is a format problem but they are all .m4v videos. I downloaded the only real player showing up in the amazon app store and it works fine for playing the videos. Now if I can just find out how to change the volume while watching.........

My books don't show up in the books when I add them. They show up in docs. They're .mobi too.

Only books that are purchased from Amazon will show up in the Books section. Even sideloaded Mobi files will appear in Docs.

treleung said:
Only books that are purchased from Amazon will show up in the Books section. Even sideloaded Mobi files will appear in Docs.
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Can you open them up and read? Or I assume we can Sidelood Nook and read the .epub files? Im switching over from an OC Nook Color and my Fire is here tomorrow.

shaxs said:
Can you open them up and read? Or I assume we can Sidelood Nook and read the .epub files? Im switching over from an OC Nook Color and my Fire is here tomorrow.
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I haven't tested side-loading the Nook app (I'm an Amazonian), but I'd imagine that would work.
The Kindle reader does not support .epub. Side-loaded mobi files open and read like Amazon purchased books.

My videos showed up in the Gallery app but it would not play them, it said it was an unsupported format. For now I'm going to just stream my own stuff to the Kindle using Emit which is available on the Amazon app store.

You can sideload the Aldiko ebook reader and the nook app without a problem.

I use calibre to prepare and load my books to all my kindles and book that I had on my previous kindle I just copied to \books folder on my Fire. it showed up in carousel and in books section. I was also able to use whisper sync to sync page read to my ipad2 kindle app as well as iphone app

I downloaded a .mobi from the internet. Put it in the Books folder. It shows up fine for me (with cover art).

reuthermonkey said:
I downloaded a .mobi from the internet. Put it in the Books folder. It shows up fine for me (with cover art).
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My .mobi files placed in the Books folder show up in the Documents.
As for videos, thus far, I can use Root Explorer to find the content and play as long as it is .mp4.
.mov and .divx won't play with the default player.

fishfuzz said:
My .mobi files placed in the Books folder show up in the Documents.
As for videos, thus far, I can use Root Explorer to find the content and play as long as it is .mp4.
.mov and .divx won't play with the default player.
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If you remove the pdoc tag from your .mobi files they will load into your Books Library with cover art and sync as any other book. You can use Calibre to do it.

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Netflix is working good. However on a side note, my videos I loaded to the \videos folder don't show up in my library. I assume it is a format problem but they are all .m4v videos. I downloaded the only real player showing up in the amazon app store and it works fine for playing the videos. Now if I can just find out how to change the volume while watching.........
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What I did was changed the extension from .m4v to .mp4 and my videos that I sideloaded show up and play fine.
They were HQ videos I converted for my iPad. Hope that helps

I am using rockplayer and it seems to reed most file and wmv and plays vey smooth...
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I also have yxplayer but its a tad slow...

MX Video Player
I had a few .avi files (divx or xvid encoded) that I couldn't play. M4V, WMV, others played fine in the standard video player. MX Player from the Android Market worked like a charm, just the free version was needed.
This is my first post, so it won't let me post a link, but its easy to find.

[Q] PDF Books?

Does the KF support PDF books as well? I'm still playing around with mine and there are a few books I'd like to check out from from my local library which is still in the dark ages. Many books are only available in Adobe Epub or PDF formats and not yet available for Kindle. I'm wondering if I should just bite the bullet and purchase the book or is there a way I can read one of those formats on the Kindle Fire?

Yes. But the included PDF reader (QuickOffice) is 'meh'. It loads pages quickly, you can select text, jump around, and search, but it doesn't save your last location, and you can't put notes within it.
I've tried so many PDF reading apps to fulfill the above, and the one I recommend is ezPDF Reader Pro @ $2.99.

You could always convert the pdf into an ebook format using calibre or any other converting programs. I did and it works fine. You can also convert epub books too.

For ebooks I strongly recommend that you use ePubs over PDFs whenever possible, it's just a much better format for the reading experience in my opinion.
If you do decide to use ePubs, I am a strong advocate of Aldiko. It is the absolute best reading app for android.

For me, some pdf books do not convert well to epub with Calibre. So a good pdf reader is important.
I will check out ezPDF Reader Pro Printerscape.
The other pdf reader I was looking at was Repligo Reader recommended from another post.
Added: Aldiko does not seem to work well on my KF. For .epub I really like using the Nook reader.

I'm also using ezPDF Reader Pro love it.

What they said. Convert to ePub or use adobe reader for free if you don't want to buy the paid app mentioned above (knowing adobe it might just be a crap app though)

Epub format problem?

I used Calibre to convert my pdf books into epub format and then transferred them over to my N7. But when i use alkido or mantano apps to read them the book format has 2/3 pages on the screen??
I thought epub was the format of choice for using on the N7?
Can someone tell me how I can get my books to display well as a single page while trying to read them as they are useless the other way above.
Thanks.

You might need to tweak some of the many settings when converting your book. Or try the original format, aldiko supports a few.

I have tried several ways to try and convert PDF to epub format. I got fed up in the end with the messed up outputs, eventually finding it easier to use ezpdf for reading PDF files
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Although I haven't followed caliber recently, PDF was always troublesome as a source format: nature of the beast, according to the developer.
As you've discovered, you'll almost always be better off with an original PDF rather than converting that PDF.
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Some PDF reader apps don't seem to finish rendering pdfs

I have a rooted Kindle Fire HD 10 with Play Store installed, and I generally use the default Books app to view PDFs. When I tried to read a pdf that was a photocopy of a textbook in the default Books app, it was really blurry as though it had not finished rendering the display. When I zoomed in, the text would get clearer, but still not all the way and nowhere near as clean as it looked on my laptop screen.
Something seemed wrong so I tried out other pdf apps and most had the same issue. Eventually I tried Adobe Reader and the pdf rendered perfectly. You can see comparison screenshots of how it looked in Adobe Reader vs Kindle Books here.
Anyone know what's going on here? Was my Kindle limiting the rendering capability of the Books app because of resource limits? Is Adobe's app just plain better because they developed the pdf standard? Is there something I can tweak with the software to allow the Books app to render these photocopies properly?
I can post a link to the pdf page if others would like to play around with it.