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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.

Best app to view PDF magazines on the NC?

I have a Playboy magazine in PDF format and would like to view it on my NC. I tried viewing it with the ff:
ezPDF
- Takes a lifetime to load.
Adobe Reader
- Quite fadt loading the pages but doest have the ability to go to the pages you like unless its set up in continuous scroll, which has a terrible view.
Any app you know that can view magazine PDFs fast and smooth?
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I think Alkido (or Aldiko I forgot) does have "go to page" feature.
About Adobe Reader, you can touch the bottom of the page to bring up the slider then slide it to page-range that you want.

I use quickoffice. Works great. Fastest pdf reader I tried.
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[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)

Help with ebook

I have this game guide pdf i imported it to aldiko but its very slow when changes pages n zooming and force closes, so i converted it to epub which took forever n now it wont open....the file is 133mb
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The kindle reads mobi and prc. It does not recognize epub.
You can try converting the epub into mobi with free software (calibre) or convert the pdf from scratch. You can also enable compression options (such as reducing image quality) to reduce size, and/or just work with the pdf itself -- optimizing it with Adobe X is one strategy, using a different pdf viewer on the Kindle is yet another.

The app moon reader will read epub files

every reader app i downloaded would force close after a few seconds...i was running cm7 so i switched to modaco and the pdf works perfect from the Docs section

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.