Comments on: Android picking up steam? Great! More pressure on Apple not to harass e-book app devs? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Spider Mattheson http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/comment-page-1/#comment-1151462 Spider Mattheson Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:51:23 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/22/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/#comment-1151462 It also looks to me like Aldiko has the best support. It comes out with more updates. It also looks to me like Aldiko has the best support. It comes out with more updates.

]]> By: Spider Mattheson http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/comment-page-1/#comment-1151461 Spider Mattheson Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:47:59 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/22/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/#comment-1151461 My phone is very high res, as well. The Droid was made gadget of the year so it's definitely not bad hardware. In retrospect, I may have been a little harsh on Aldiko. Certainly WordPlayer and FBReader are not that good on Android but Aldiko is decent. I was just frustrated with the menu at first. I missed the "back" button at first, thinking it didn't have one. It still shouldn't take me three "clicks" to get to it. A simple menu is critical on small screens. I do like that you can adjust the brightness of the display by sliding your finger along the left side, though. A neat, useful feature. So it may have a little catch-up to do to win me over the way the iTouch apps did but I shouldn't say Aldiko makes for a bad reading experience. It is, however, the only ebook reader worth using on Android right now. My phone is very high res, as well. The Droid was made gadget of the year so it’s definitely not bad hardware. In retrospect, I may have been a little harsh on Aldiko. Certainly WordPlayer and FBReader are not that good on Android but Aldiko is decent. I was just frustrated with the menu at first. I missed the “back” button at first, thinking it didn’t have one. It still shouldn’t take me three “clicks” to get to it. A simple menu is critical on small screens. I do like that you can adjust the brightness of the display by sliding your finger along the left side, though. A neat, useful feature. So it may have a little catch-up to do to win me over the way the iTouch apps did but I shouldn’t say Aldiko makes for a bad reading experience. It is, however, the only ebook reader worth using on Android right now.

]]> By: Spider Mattheson http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/comment-page-1/#comment-1151437 Spider Mattheson Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:51:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/22/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/#comment-1151437 Correction: the app is called Aldiko. Correction: the app is called Aldiko.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/comment-page-1/#comment-1151436 David Rothman Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:45:09 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/22/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/#comment-1151436 Thanks for the first-hand impressions, Spider. Guess it depends on the hardware. Roger Sperberg is rather excited about the e-book potential of Android phones--his own phone is very high res, Thanks. David Thanks for the first-hand impressions, Spider. Guess it depends on the hardware. Roger Sperberg is rather excited about the e-book potential of Android phones–his own phone is very high res, Thanks. David

]]> By: Spider Mattheson http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/comment-page-1/#comment-1151435 Spider Mattheson Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:41:13 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/22/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/#comment-1151435 I have a Droid and an iPod Touch. I find the ebook apps on Anroid make for a really poor reading experience. Aldikio and WordPlayer are both pretty simple compared with the apps on the iTouch. I've used Stanza, Kindle for iPhone, ereader for iPhone, and the B&N app. I think they were all better than Aldikio and WordPlayer although I'm not a fan of B&N's app. I have a Droid and an iPod Touch. I find the ebook apps on Anroid make for a really poor reading experience. Aldikio and WordPlayer are both pretty simple compared with the apps on the iTouch. I’ve used Stanza, Kindle for iPhone, ereader for iPhone, and the B&N app. I think they were all better than Aldikio and WordPlayer although I’m not a fan of B&N’s app.

]]> By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/comment-page-1/#comment-1151400 Steve Jordan Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:02:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/22/android-picking-up-steam-great-more-pressure-on-apple-not-to-harass-e-book-app-devs/#comment-1151400 As I've said numerous times in the past year, "This year's iPhone is next year's Razr." Now I can start saying "This year's Android is next year's iPhone." Putting all of your eggs into any one hardware basket is always a mistake, especially with leading-edge hardware... it never stays leading-edge for long. But if you concentrate on creating (or obtaining) content that can be migrated from one platform to another, you'll usually be okay. As I’ve said numerous times in the past year, “This year’s iPhone is next year’s Razr.” Now I can start saying “This year’s Android is next year’s iPhone.”

Putting all of your eggs into any one hardware basket is always a mistake, especially with leading-edge hardware… it never stays leading-edge for long. But if you concentrate on creating (or obtaining) content that can be migrated from one platform to another, you’ll usually be okay.

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