Anyone got a particular recomendation for Android ebook reading apps.
I have used Aldiko on my table, but I’m not especially keen on it – it seems to strip out formatting, doesn’t respond to in text links/footnotes especially well.
Would happily pay a few quid for something that ticked all the boxes.
Should read ePubs. Should connect to my Calibre library. Ability to connect onto other on line stores a bonus.
FBReader is the ebook reader I use. It’s a nice app and, so far, has been able to handle everything I’ve thrown at it. And it’s free
I use Moon Reader+ on my phone – not sure how well it scales up to tablet size, but there’s a free version and a pro version, so it’s easy to try out.
That should be Moon+ reader.
I should jump in on this, considering it’s my “beat” so to say. 
I’ll be touching on this more in the Cheapskates I’m slating for July, but currently the two reader apps I have on my Android phone are Kindle (for Amazon format) and Nook (for ePub). I gave up on Calibre as producing too much content for me to reasonably get through on a daily basis (though it’s a great program).
I’m reviewing 8 novellas that are all connected for this one in July, so my thought had been to use a different ereader for each one of them. I’ll try out some of these others and give my take on them in that show as well as Kindle and Nook apps.
I should add that I also have tried Aldiko and Kobo reader and found them both practically unusable. I think they rely too much on a data connection for regular use.
In case anyone cares, I use Calibre for managing my ebook library on my PC, Sigil to create/edit epubs (my preferred ebook format) – also on the PC and, as already stated Moon+ reader as the reader app on my phone.
Gonzalo, do you know of a way to read DRM protected files on Moon + Reader? In a way that’s legal, I should add…
As far as I know, Moon+ reader does not support DRM – hopefully the recent move by Tor to strip DRM from all their ebooks will be followed by the rest of the publishing industry.
I’ve not noticed Aldiko wanting a data connection just to read things, but perhaps tablet use is different from phone. My problem with it is that italicised and bold text isn’t destinguished from plain, and with some writers using such as a means of identifying an inner voice it can make following the stories more difficult.
I would guess that DRM protected ePubs will be a no-no for the vast bulk of Android readers, if you’re not going to use Calibre or equivilent to strip it off.
So, Adam, did you get enough for your upcoming Cheapskates? I’m really interested in your findings…
I did, but it was a close thing.
I put off the relevant episode a month in lieu of a Bradbury-tribute episode (coming next week), so the episode containing mobile ereaders will be about mid-August.
You may be interested to know which two still are maintained on my phone, however: Kindle and (a surprise to me, too) Aldiko.
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