4 Answers2025-06-05
For something simple to highlight with and notes to be synced to all your devices then BookFusion is recommended. As noted above Scribd’s app does allow highlighting and notes on PDF and EPUB books but this is very limited compared to BookFusion. Simple enough to use for casual users who just want to highlight a few passages and move on.
8 Answers2025-08-19
Oh the humanity if we couldn't read our books offline, we'd probably revolt. As it stands, offline reading of stories and information is a basic accessibility feature, and (big) companies know that not everyone has reliable, affordable internet connection all the time. They’d like you to read their e-books everywhere, not just when you have phone signal. Which is why they’ve set things up so that by default you get to download the book. The option to Remove Download is secondary, but they want to make it easy for you to experience the better way of reading a book – that which is stored locally on your device and ready to go at a moment’s notice.
9 Answers2025-07-21
It looks mostly the same to me as it did in the early days of our books, presses to drag open menus with small text. If I am typing out a note that is longer than a few words, I have a tendency to lose my place. Because of this, serious academic annotation is still best done on a tablet with a real stylus. The Paperwhite is perfect for casual underlining and 'wow' moments of insight. Not for detailed, hand written marginalia.
10 Answers2025-07-08
I often read PDFs on my Android phone, and bookmarking is super handy for keeping track of important pages. Here's how I do it: I usually open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader since it's my go-to app. Once the file is open, I navigate to the page I want to bookmark. At the top right, there's a bookmark icon—it looks like a ribbon. I tap it, and voilà, the page is bookmarked. To view all my bookmarks later, I just tap the side menu, select 'Bookmarks,' and it shows me the list. Other apps like Xodo or Google PDF Viewer have similar features, though the exact steps might vary slightly. The key is to look for the bookmark icon or check the app's help section if you're unsure.
10 Answers2025-07-28
As far as the plugin ecosystem goes, it feels somewhat DIY. So you search up a plugin to add support for a new ebook format and you find a GitHub repository with 3 stars and a last commit from 2018. It works perfect for a while and then it breaks Calibre in an update. It’s a bit of a trade-off as the official Calibre plugin index is much safer but there are less plugins of a niche nature.
10 Answers2026-03-28
So that’s F-Droid for you – install it on a device without Google Play Services (a task which can take some work to set up on an Android e-ink reading device) and you can choose from loads of open-source apps with a healthy focus on user privacy. So, you can have a reading device that doesn’t call home to Amazon, Google, etc. as long as you’re careful to choose appropriate reading apps. The privacy conscious reader can have a very controlled reading environment on such a device, far more so than a Kindle for example.
12 Answers2025-07-09
As a manga enthusiast who spends hours organizing and reading digital comics, I've experimented with countless Calibre plugins to enhance the experience. The absolute must-have is 'Kobo Touch Extended'—it optimizes manga for e-readers by adjusting page sizes and margins. 'FanFicFare' is another gem, allowing you to download webcomics and fan-translated manga directly into Calibre.
For metadata management, 'Manga Metadata' scrapes details from AniList and MyAnimeList, saving tons of manual input. If you read Japanese raw manga, 'DeDRM' helps bypass regional locks, though use it ethically. Lastly, 'Quality Check' ensures your files aren’t corrupted—vital for large manga collections. These plugins transform Calibre into a powerhouse for manga lovers.
4 Answers2025-07-07
The big book club I’m part of reads only doorstoppers, so we last month benchmarked ebook readers for files longer than 500 pages. Icecream Ebook Reader in the end turned out to be the best for such files due to its background preloading. Second place was taken by Freda that in its efforts to avoid delays when reading big books streams them in chunks. The reader that lost to the two above – Google Play Books – simply stutters with files that exceed 20MB. So, when you decide to read a big book and it is sold as MOBI, first convert it to EPUB. The majority of ebook readers read EPUBs way faster.
10 Answers2025-07-10
My cat stepped on my Kindle once. The resulting annotation, “hhhhhhhhhh”, is to date my most profound annotation on the book.
4 Answers2025-06-02
My Boox eReader has tons of free eBooks, including lots of audio books, from sites like Librivox, as well as the free section of Google Play Books. I also have tons of free public domain anthologies of 19th century literature by tons of now-obscure authors. Lots of writers are giving away free eBooks to their newsletter subscribers – for example, Brandon Sanderson just gave away a whole novel to his subscribers.