I use Aldiko on an Android tablet. The killer feature for me was the fact that I could adjust the brightness by sliding my thumb up and down the left-hand side of the screen. Not sure if any other apps have this now but at the time it was something I sorely needed. AFAIK Aldiko has no "store" it's just a player but I was reading http://www.gutenberg.org eBooks so that didn't matter.
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com>wrote: > Page turns on the Kindle app slide the page in the turned direction. Not a > bad experience. > Page turns on the Google Play (when reading ebooks) gives a nice page furl > slide animation. Really nice, slick and not overdone. This reader is my > favourite but the books you get on Google seem to differ to Amazon. More > novels, less technical books I think. I could be wrong. Google also seems > cheaper a little. > Page turns on Safari Online app. Atrocious. When reading online it > downloads the page (what no preloading?) and takes a second or two. > Annoying. If you download the book and read it in offline mode, I found > that turning pages will turn two pages at a time and it does it too fast. > You dont know if you changed one page or more. Not happy with this app, > which is a shame because of the number of books I can read on Safari > Online. Wish they would fix this. (have reported to them as a bug). > > PDF reading is also nice in the built in Adobe (I think I might have > installed their app). has continuous mode (vertical scrolling. no thanks) > or single page, similar animated slide like Kindle. Still prefer Google > Play reader. I'm sure there are others. soooo many others. Thats a plus, > you have choice. (mind numbingly confusing to despair choice.) > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, mike smith <meski...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@iinet.net.au>wrote: >> >>> Does anyone use a Nexus 7 tablet as an eBook device? >>> >> >> Yes, I use it for 'American' published account (its difficult to change >> between Aussie and US accounts) >> >> Its a comfortable size to hold. >> >> >>> I can’t imagine it could compare with Kindle or other e-Ink devices in >>> extremes of ambient light >>> >> >> Why? It probably isn't good for full sun, but that's a bad reading >> environment anyway. It beats e-Ink stone cold dead when reading in the >> dark. :) >> >> Also, I like the faster page-turn you get with Nexus 7 and non e-Ink >> devices. >> >> >> >> – but I would be interested in comments.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> **Ian Thomas** >>> Victoria Park, ****Western Australia******** >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Meski >> >> http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv >> >> "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, >> you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills >> >> >
