Tom Douglas
Lurker
Hi, my worst annoyance with Android devices - all of them - is how FB2 e-books are treated. All other popular e-book formats (epub, mobi, djvu, pdf) have official apps associated with them. The FB2 e-book format that is very popular as well, for some obscure reason has no application that is OFFICIALLY associated with it - and I have installed about a dozen e-book apps! When you tap on an FB2 file, the system reacts with this message: "UNABLE TO OPEN FILE -- You don't have any apps that can open this type of file...", or something similar, depending on the Android version, but it's the same for all (various) Android devices that I've tried.
The worst part is - actually several e-book apps that I've installed can open and display FB2 e-books just fine! For example, FBReader for Android does that; Moonreader+ does that; some others do that, too. BUT THEY ARE NOt OFFICIALLY ASSOCIATED woth the .FB2 extension. So how I know they deal fairly with FB2 e-books? I just open an app and browse my e-book directory from within an app. The app "sees" all the books, including FB2 ones, and when I tap on one of them, it opens. But this way is annoying, because the e-book apps are very slow with reading a file directory. Besides, isn't it something that has to be fixed and probably somebody knows how to fix this - for instance, to find and repair some system table that links file extensions and apps?
The worst part is - actually several e-book apps that I've installed can open and display FB2 e-books just fine! For example, FBReader for Android does that; Moonreader+ does that; some others do that, too. BUT THEY ARE NOt OFFICIALLY ASSOCIATED woth the .FB2 extension. So how I know they deal fairly with FB2 e-books? I just open an app and browse my e-book directory from within an app. The app "sees" all the books, including FB2 ones, and when I tap on one of them, it opens. But this way is annoying, because the e-book apps are very slow with reading a file directory. Besides, isn't it something that has to be fixed and probably somebody knows how to fix this - for instance, to find and repair some system table that links file extensions and apps?
