Apps that work on Nook Touch

phazeonphoenix · Mar 19, 2013

source-code said:
I'm planning to buy an ebook reader especially for PDF's so can anybody share experience of reading PDF on NST.....

As many reviews said it's not that comfort because of 6" display and all....so I need a suggestion who experienced...

Thanks

It largely depends on the type of PDF you want to view. For PDFs that largely contain text, the NST works fairly well. It will reflow the text and work quite nicely. Those with large amounts of imagery or complex page layouts are a different matter. The NST tries it's best but the size of the display and its low processing power (relative to other devices) limits its capabilities. It's also a tad slower reading PDFs vs. EPUBs or similar. I've read of some success with other PDF readers from the market, but I personally do not use PDFs that often so I have not experimented with them.

Despite the small display size, low processing power and PDF layout irregularities I've had fairly decent performance from the NST when reading PDFs. It works far better than I could have hoped from such a small and low cost device.

osowiecki · Mar 19, 2013

source-code said:
I'm planning to buy an ebook reader especially for PDF's so can anybody share experience of reading PDF on NST.....

As many reviews said it's not that comfort because of 6" display and all....so I need a suggestion who experienced...

Thanks

I use NST mainly for reading PDF's.
The experience depends mainly on the size of PDF file and rendering method used by your reading apk.
Also..reading pdf's without using "FastMode/NoRefresh" is kind of painful (but not impossible).
I find "APV PDF Viewer" and "Ebooka PDF Viewer" to be the best PDF readers available.
They render a page chunk by chunk and use cache to store next pages. It works quite well on large PDF's (in comparison to for example "EzPDF reader" which renders all page at once).
"EzPDF" is usefull if you want to reflow your pdf or make an annotation in it.
If you really do not want to use "FastMode" both APV and Ebooka have zoom buttons (Ebooka lets you to lock currently set zoom level).
If you'll bump this thread tomorrow around 19.00 (GTM +1) i'll post some videos of different pdf viewers in action.

osowiecki · Mar 20, 2013

osowiecki said:
I use NST mainly for reading PDF's.
The experience depends mainly on the size of PDF file and rendering method used by your reading apk.
Also..reading pdf's without using "FastMode/NoRefresh" is kind of painful (but not impossible).
I find "APV PDF Viewer" and "Ebooka PDF Viewer" to be the best PDF readers available.
They render a page chunk by chunk and use cache to store next pages. It works quite well on large PDF's (in comparison to for example "EzPDF reader" which renders all page at once).
"EzPDF" is usefull if you want to reflow your pdf or make an annotation in it.
If you really do not want to use "FastMode" both APV and Ebooka have zoom buttons (Ebooka lets you to lock currently set zoom level).
If you'll bump this thread tomorrow around 19.00 (GTM +1) i'll post some videos of different pdf viewers in action.

Here it is.

1. FastMode + APV / EBOOKA / EZPDF [+ text reflow ] (in that order)
2. Standard refresh mode
3. Partial refresh mode
4. NoRefresh Mode

Normally hardware buttons work. They do not scroll the page because I changed my config.

Sorry for not showing the default reader. I removed it.

source-code · Mar 27, 2013

Thank you for the response......Actually I'm confused with Nexus7 and NST. I know both of different type but I want a device purely for reading purpose. So I thought of Nook Simple Touch. And I gone through most of the threads to root the device and overclocking too. And about the price NST is exactly half to Nexus7 with more features. But when it comes to reading i don't have idea because i never seen e-ink display personally.

And also please inform whether battery backup will be effected after rooting....

Thank you all....

osowiecki · Mar 27, 2013

source-code said:
Thank you for the response......Actually I'm confused with Nexus7 and NST. I know both of different type but I want a device purely for reading purpose. So I thought of Nook Simple Touch. And I gone through most of the threads to root the device and overclocking too. And about the price NST is exactly half to Nexus7 with more features. But when it comes to reading i don't have idea because i never seen e-ink display personally.

And also please inform whether battery backup will be effected after rooting....

Thank you all....

battery backup?
I assume you meant battery life.
If you do it right you should get ~1% drop in battery life per day on sleeping rooted nook.
Of course if you use it during the day the drop will be greater depending on what apk's you have running.
By "doing it right" i mean removing Phone.apk , putting nook to sleep automatically instead of just pushing power button and killing running apk's after boot and before sleep (using for eg. TaskXP)
All info on howto preserve Nooks battery is somewhere on this forum.

source-code · Mar 28, 2013

osowiecki said:
battery backup?
I assume you meant battery life.
If you do it right you should get ~1% drop in battery life per day on sleeping rooted nook.
Of course if you use it during the day the drop will be greater depending on what apk's you have running.
By "doing it right" i mean removing Phone.apk , putting nook to sleep automatically instead of just pushing power button and killing running apk's after boot and before sleep (using for eg. TaskXP)
All info on howto preserve Nooks battery is somewhere on this forum.

Thank you for the quick response....I gone through the threads abt the battery life as u mentioned. Now I think NST is the better option for the reading purpose than a tablet....When I get my device i may need some guidance and help for the root. Thank you for your valuable time.

adithyan · May 2, 2014

flipkart ebooks apk

has anyone tried installing Flipkart ebooks app?? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flipkart.fkreader

if not can any one try it and reply pleasee

hereusethis · Jun 10, 2015

Still current?

osowiecki said:
Here it is.

1. FastMode + APV / EBOOKA / EZPDF [+ text reflow ] (in that order)
2. Standard refresh mode
3. Partial refresh mode
4. NoRefresh Mode

Normally hardware buttons work. They do not scroll the page because I changed my config.

Sorry for not showing the default reader. I removed it.

Sorry for necroposting, but this is exactly what I want to do with my newly rooted Nook. Is this still the best/current way to acheive smooth large-pdf viewing? (If I don't get a reply here, I can post in the Newbie thread, but unfortunately, I don't have enough posts to post back a link to this thread, making explaining what I want to do a bit of a challenge. At any rate, a three-year late thanks for sharing your PDF setup! :good:

NOOK!E · Jun 11, 2015

hereusethis said:
Sorry for necroposting, but this is exactly what I want to do with my newly rooted Nook. Is this still the best/current way to acheive smooth large-pdf viewing? (If I don't get a reply here, I can post in the Newbie thread, but unfortunately, I don't have enough posts to post back a link to this thread, making explaining what I want to do a bit of a challenge. At any rate, a three-year late thanks for sharing your PDF setup! :good:

Yeah, it really hasn't changed too much. Just grab the NoRefresh toggle app and a PDF reader of choice, and you're good to go.

hereusethis · Jun 11, 2015

ИΘΘK¡€ said:
Yeah, it really hasn't changed too much. Just grab the NoRefresh toggle app and a PDF reader of choice, and you're good to go.

Thanks for the response. It's much appreciated. So far I've tried:

ezPDF - I have the pro version and I generally like it on my phone, but I find the dark theme/UI pretty much usable on the nook and haven't found an easy way to lighten it up.
Stock Nook - Great for reading epub. Pretty lacking for pdfs, especially those with a lot of images.
APV -- I've never heard of this one, but video impressed me. It' s no longer in the play store but managed to locate a copy. Haven't installed/configured yet.

I have the debug version of no-refresh that you (ИΘΘK¡€) posted in another thread. But I obviously have it configured wrong -- lots of flashing with every scroll/swipe on all of these apps (and others). I'd really like to get the smooth action shown in this video of APV. Osowiecki mentions norefresh and fastmode2. Do I need both? Do I need a kernel? I think I need one for multi-touch, yes? So I may as well add that to my list of nook projects.

At any rate, something's missing on my install for sure, but with all the great info here I'm bound to figure it out eventually!:good:

NOOK!E · Jun 11, 2015

hereusethis said:
Thanks for the response. It's much appreciated. So far I've tried:

ezPDF - I have the pro version and I generally like it on my phone, but I find the dark theme/UI pretty much usable on the nook and haven't found an easy way to lighten it up.

Stock Nook - Great for reading epub. Pretty lacking for pdfs, especially those with a lot of images.

APV -- I've never heard of this one, but video impressed me. It' s no longer in the play store but managed to locate a copy. Haven't installed/configured yet.

I have the debug version of no-refresh that you (ИΘΘK¡€) posted in another thread. But I obviously have it configured wrong -- lots of flashing with every scroll/swipe on all of these apps (and others). I'd really like to get the smooth action shown in this video of APV. Osowiecki mentions norefresh and fastmode2. Do I need both? Do I need a kernel? I think I need one for multi-touch, yes? So I may as well add that to my list of nook projects.

At any rate, something's missing on my install for sure, but with all the great info here I'm bound to figure it out eventually!:good:

Well, first off, what Nook Touch do you have, what B&N software does it have, and what tool or ROM did you root it with?

I can definitely share my own PDF reading setup, but I'll need the above information first.

hereusethis · Jun 11, 2015

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ИΘΘK¡€ said:
Well, first off, what Nook Touch do you have, what B&N software does it have, and what tool or ROM did you root it with?

I can definitely share my own PDF reading setup, but I'll need the above information first.

I have a Simple Touch (no glow), it's running B&N 1.2.1, and I rooted with Nook Manager .5. (I also have NTGAppsAttack, Nook Manager, and some other stuff - ES File Explorer, JB Keyboard, and a bunch of different reader and PDF apps). I've considered flashing a ROM (ie, your 1337 ROM) so maybe that's the easiest route to Nook goodness? That said, I really only need the rooting for PDF reading and some app support (keyboard, light browser) so closer to stock may be the better. Regardless, any suggestions would be great.

Thanks again!

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