OT: Android tablet epub Reader

Ansar Mohammed ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 26 18:50:39 UTC 2012


Do they all have the "page turning" effect like iBooks?
I know it sounds stupid, but it does add to the experience of reading.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Ori Idan <ori-RdxWQVHs3mjDN57Tih+YPw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > Hello All,
>> > I bought an iPad for my wife a few months ago. The only thing she
>> > liked about it was the iBooks app and how easy it was to read and turn
>> > pages.
>> >
>> > Is there an Android app that has the same look and feel as iBooks?
>>
>> There are a number of book readers on Android; their makers would
>> presumably get hit with "cease and desist" lawsuits from a
>> demonstrably litigious company were their "look and feel" to be
>> excessively similar to that of said litigious company's application.
>>
>> Thus, I think that few Android application makers would be so stupid
>> as to produce something that tries to behave identically to iBooks.
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>> I most frequently find myself using FBReader, which has versions
>> running on a number of platforms.  http://www.fbreader.org/   I do not
>> know how similar it is to iBooks; I do find that I like its UI
>> reasonably well.
>>
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> I use LumiRead on my Acer iconia tablet.
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> Ori Idan
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