Saturday, 25 June 2011

eReaders

A crucial application for my device is eReader.  I used to use MobiPocket on my windows mobile device and it did most things I wanted.  My requirements for an eReader include:

  • Store / Organise / Read eBooks
  • Pictures
  • Table
  • Text formatting including bullets, alignment, different fonts and sizes, text colour
  • Search
  • Ability to annotate including highlights and notes  (and ideally extract these annotations later)
  • Read eBooks in various formats and from various sources (including ones I've generated myself)
Nice to have would include:
  • Styles
  • zoom view
So far, I've tried various eReaders on the tablet, including:
  • Kindle
  • Aldiko
  • iReader
  • FBReader
  • Cool Reader
  • Moon+ Reader
disappointingly,  most of them don't support much formatting - ie fonts and text sizes, a lot of them don't do annotation very well.

Which leaves me with Kindle - only supports mobi format, but otherwise has good formatting and annotation. So I'm going to use that for the moment.

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