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Help ebook homescreen shortcut - how?

critcher

critcher

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Hello!

I want to do something fairly basic, but I don't know how!

What I want to do is to place a shortcut to an ebook on my homescreen. Ideally, the icon would be the book cover.

What I have so far is es file manager, the shortcut works, but the icon is cool reader. That's OK but when I have several books open, it would be good to see the cover.

I can do it on my phone, long press, shortcut, navigate to file and presto! There it is. I must be missing something!

Any ideas?

James
 
I just had a look on the market, and there seems to be a lot of people complaining about google books. Think I'll give that a miss!
 
As far as i'm aware you cannot change shortcut icons natively, but some "Launchers" support this function. But to be honest you don't want to install a launcher just to change shortcut pictures.

Nova Launcher supports this function as well as renaming of shortcuts, but it is not yet compatible with the Prime.
 
I put the Google books widget on a screen. Taping the widget opened the book I am reading to the page I left off at.
 
I installed google books, and it is very nice. Unfortunately I can't open my own books with it, and that's a bit of a deal breaker.

Sexy animations though!
 
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