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Best PDF reader?

Troglodad

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Trying to decide on the best PDF reader for Android...

I have considered Documents to Go, but it's so huge, and does so much more than just read PDFs. Also, you can't try out the PDF reader before you buy.

I just want to read ebooks- my old Palm Tungsten E2 still works great, but I can' be carrying two handhelds around all the time...
 
my txtReader.PDF is a pure text reader for PDF. It's free. Hope you like it ;)
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I checked Beamreader, Repligo, Adobe, PDF Viewer, VuDroid, Docs2Go, Office Suite Pro, and EZPDF.

For scanned PDFs I use Acrobat for its speed, and for others I use EZPDF as nothing beats its functionality and feature set.
 
Just updated RepliGo Reader to version 3.0

New features:
Select words/text to mark it.
The selected text can copied, highlighted, underlined, crossed out, searched or stucked with a sticky note :)

EDIT: All the features the Adobe Reader should have :D

Harry
 
Am having 4 of them on my Android: Adobe Reader, MobilePDFViewer, PDFtoGo, PDFviewer(os) and none of them really 'succeeds' in reflowing a standard pdf. People allover are saving word-etc-files with a pdf-printclient. Standardly a pdf-printclient doesn't save files as pdf/A-1a or tagged pdf. Increadible that Adobe didn't think of the small devices of today. Or Adobe thought of it, too late, but makes transcoding extremely difficult if not in possession of certain Adobe editors. A solution could be to extract the text of a standard non-A-1a-pdf. But eventhen, this doesn't always work with some types of built-in glyph fonts. Really, pdf was meant to be extremely readable! Pdf has the advantage of text and graphics in 1 file, but today, pdf suffers. Or what to think of the fact that Adobe's own Android app doesn't satisfy fully?
(simple) HTML (alla Tim Berners-Lee - with possibly some non-extensive css) reads best on most phones and smart phones of whatever kind. It has the disadvantage of depending on external, not internal, imgs (img files). Helas.
Another solution to the reflow problem could be to scale all text and images in files in percentages. Percentages which adapt to any screen. With the possibility of quickly enlarging/zooming images on small screens. Percentages, think of them!
 
Does RepliGo (or any others) let you jump to a specific page? Also, does it remember where you last were on each pdf?
 
Trying to decide on the best PDF reader for Android...

I have considered Documents to Go, but it's so huge, and does so much more than just read PDFs. Also, you can't try out the PDF reader before you buy.

I just want to read ebooks- my old Palm Tungsten E2 still works great, but I can' be carrying two handhelds around all the time...

According to my views, Adobe PDF reader app is one of the best PDF ebook reader app for Android. However, you may checkout the review of top 3 best PDF reader app for Android.
 
The OP wanted the best reader to read PDF eBooks.

I think, I found such an eBook reader now :)

Mantano Reader, reads PDF and ePub.

Harry
 
For PDF reading only, get free qPDF Viewer.
For markup, try qPDF Notes by Qoppa Software. Open any PDF, add text notes, highlights and free-form drawings, as well as fill interactive PDF forms. qPDF Notes accesses, saves, and sends PDFs via email, Dropbox, Bluetooth or SD cards.
 
I'd like to read large (around 10 MB) PDF files (on Archos 7 V2) containing simple graphics. So far I have tried
1. BeamReader - it took like 2 min(!) to open the file, then the speed was good
2. Adobe Reader - fast, no extra features, often crashes
3. MobilePDFViewer - simple reader, but it takes 5s to switch a page
4. APV PDF Viewer - pretty fast, many options and useful features (color inversion, vertical scroll lock..), didn't crash while being tested

However none of the above listed apps wasn't able to open this PDF found if you Google for "ESLII_print5.pdf" and chose the first link (Stanford university)
Do you know any reader capable of reading this file?
 
ESLII_print5.pdf has 12.33MB and I can read it without problems with
RepliGo Reader
Mantano Reader
ezPDF Reader
DocsToGo
and Adobe Reader.

So I think it might be your hardware as the reason that you can't open this PDF.

Harry
 
So I think it might be your hardware as the reason that you can't open this PDF.
It seems there is such a problem. I'll change FW version and will see if it helps.

BTW by the Gobooks is meant GO Book, right?
 
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