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Best Free Android Apps for Reading

There are many people who like reading books from their Android smartphones but don’t like the book reader apps found in their devices by default. If you’re one of those people, and if you’re thinking of finding a new Android app for reading, my post will be useful for you.

I’ve downloaded and tried many reading apps, and here are, IMHO, the best ones among them. They are all free and can be downloaded from Android Market (If you’re new to Android and don’t know how to download and install apps from the Market, read our guide).

1. Cool Reader by Vadim Lopatin is probably the best reading app I’ve seen so far, and it’s the app I’m currently using on my Android-based Samsung Galaxy Ace.

The app supports a huge list of formats (fb2, txt, doc, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, pml, epub and mobi), it’s easy to use and it looks cool. First, I like the default background – when you look at it, your eyes don’t hurt and it seems you’re reading a real book (you can change the background’s color and textures, and even put your own background, but the default one seems to be the best for me), you can almost feel that paper smell, too :) Second, you can easily jump to the needed page, search for some text, bookmark the pages… Very useful, an ideal app for reading fiction.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I like the page turning part, too. Besides, it can read books from .zip files, which is also very nice.

2. Moon+ Reader by Moon+ is the next free reading app I have in my Android smartphone. It supports txt, html, epub, umd, fb2, chm, zip and OPDS formats (no .doc support, unfortunately), has many visual options, different types of paging, many different themes (plus you can change between the Day and Night modes) and supports 28 languages.

Though I usually prefer to read books in Cool Reader anyway, Moon+ Reader is still a very good reading app. And this video will show you more about it:

3. FBReader by Geometer Plus is the third Android app for reading I can recommend. It’s really fast, but the number of supported file formats is not that impressive (epub, oeb and fb2).

You can download books with the help of FBReader or download them manually and read them in the app. The book reader already includes some famous English, French, Chinese, Russian and Polish libraries, too.

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September 5, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Skitch App Released for Android

Skitch, a great application created by Evernote to annotate and edit photos, has been available for Mac for a while. Now the app is at last available for Android users, too. You can download it for free from Android Market!

Here is how the app is officially described:

“Calling Skitch for Android addictively fun is an understatement. It’s the perfect way to quickly draw attention to anything in a picture; take a snapshot of something awesome, draw an arrow and add a caption, then post the image on Twitter or Facebook. When you’re at a conference, snap a picture of the people you meet, annotate it with their names and save it into Evernote. Quickly sketch out a map, diagram or unicorn!”

If you like playing around with your photos, editing them, adding some notes on them or giving them sketch effects, here are several other great apps from Android Market you may like:

August 22, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Android Apps to Run on Nokia N9

The Nokia N9 was introduced by the Finnish company only a few days ago, but it’s already very popular – everyone seems to be discussing it now. It has a powerful processor and GPU, an 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics and super wide 28mm lens, a 3.9-inch AMOLED touchscreen and many other great features, and its only minus seems to be the OS – MeeGo. It’s much better than Symbian, of course, but it’s new, and it has only a few apps, unlike Android.

So will a device with no cool apps manage to become really successful? We don’t think so… But Myriad Group said the “app problem” of the Nokia N9 can be solved in the nearest future by… making the apps designed for Android run on it! The French-Swiss company promised to adapt their Java virtual machine (which helps Android apps run on other platforms) for Nokia’s new N9, and for the Nokia N950, too. Moreover, the performance of the applications will not become worse on MeeGo.

The idea seems to be very good, since Android is known for a huge number of good applications, and if they appear on Nokia’s new device, but Nokia and Android will benefit from it.

We don’t know yet when this new feature will be released by Myriad Group, we don’t even know the Nokia N9’s exact release date… So let’s have a look at this video by the French-Swiss company while we are waiting.

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June 24, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Android apps ported to Ubuntu

Had you ever imagined applications meant for the Android OS running on your notebook loaded with Ubuntu OS ? If not, then you can and you should imagine it now. Because, developers at Cannonical successfully ported some Android apps onto Ubuntu. This was unveiled at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona on Tuesday.

Here’s a pic of a desktop PC running some Android apps :

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Google’s Android is based on Linux platform. But, its built on Google’s custom Java runtime. So, that makes it more convenient for use in mobile phones and tablet PCs and not in desktops.

But, this development would surely pave the way for future development of Android to make it more user-friendly and to be used in deskptop PCs. Even in the past, we have had news about Android notebooks and netbooks in the making (by companies like Skytone, HP and T-Mobile).

So, lets hope that Android soon makes its way into the notebook arena and we get a taste of the Open-Source environment in our notebooks.

[via androidarena]

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