While it doesn’t scan the entire account and list all the files it finds, like Marvin does, it does allow you to navigate easily through the directories, and if you keep your Calibre folder there, it’s already handily sorted by author’s name. Speaking of style and formatting, Prestigio is also one of those apps that is able to render non-breaking space paragraph section separators properly-another useful feature for me when it comes to reading older ebooks, or ones I generate myself from Scrivener.Īnother feature Prestigio shares with Marvin and Freda is the ability to load ebooks from cloud accounts, including Dropbox, OneDrive, or Google Drive. I don’t know if there are quite as many formatting options as Marvin for iOS or Freda for Windows 10 offer, but it’s certainly in the same neighborhood. The “Advanced Settings” menu offers a variety of customization options for page, font, colors, navigation bar, and text styles. There’s a basic formatting menu which allows you to choose among several fonts-serif, sans serif, and monospace courier-as well as adjust text size, margins, and theme. That’s a pretty good bargain-you can try the reader out to see if you like it, then either use it without ever bothering to get rid of the ads or pay less than a buck to do so.Īnother nice feature is the extensive set of style and formatting options. And they only cost 99 cents to remove altogether.
This is “ eReader Prestigio: Book Reader,” which I mentioned briefly last year in a discussion of the $50 Amazon Fire tablet. The Prestigio Reader seems at first glance an unlikely candidate, a free-adware app from a phone and tablet manufacturer (who we mentioned briefly back in 2010), but it actually has some remarkably good features.įor one thing, like the Kindle’s special offers, the ads only show up on the book list screen- not while you’re actually reading something. It’s fairly bare-bones, but its clean reading interface and the way it makes accessing books from its own cloud storage simple make it one of my favorites for quick reading.īut for in-depth reading, another app has made its way onto all of my Android devices, displacing old favorites like FBReader or Moon+. One of my favorite apps in that regard is Google Play Books. I haven’t been doing a lot of e-reading lately, but when I have, my needs are generally pretty simple: I just want something to show me the book in a decent font with reasonable formatting, and stay out of my way when I want to get down to reading. Some of them have been around for quite a while, and they all have slightly different features and capabilities. We just mentioned a few in a recent post, in fact. There are a remarkable number of decent DRM-free ebook-reading apps for Android.
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