What do you use to read PDF's ?

[Ride525]

A recent posting got me thinking....

Right out of the box my prime was able to:

- Open PDFs with such brilliant scrolling smoothness and rendering speed, much faster than Gtab (My engineering eBooks).

So what do you all recommend for your PDF reading experience on the Prime?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

 

[demandarin]

Adobe reader and EZ PDF reader. The latter works really good and loads up everything really fast. Adobe is good also. With those two. I have no problems with any PDF thrown St me. I do have other apps like Quickoffice HD Pro, Polaris, and Office Suite Pro also than can open PDF up. But the best as far as PDF readers only would be the ones I first mentioned.

 

[FHSPSU67]

I'm an EZPDF fan also. Best that I've found for annotating.

 

[hceuterpe]

2-Page view

The full blown Windows/Linux version of Adobe lets you do a 2-page spread view in full screen. Works quite nice with letter sized PDF files on a 4:3 screen.

How do you do a 2-page view with the Android version of either?

 

[ugotproblemz]

Ez pdf pro....when it was free on amazon lol

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[JayRBytheway]

I use mantano free reader. Seems the most responsive to me

 

[anoneemooz]

+1 for Mantano.

There's a non-intrusive ad-supported free version that's full featured but I am highly considering purchasing it (around 3 bucks) 'cus it's just that good!

I've tried the stock reader app, Kobo, GoBooks, Adobe, Aldiko, and some office apps but I find Mantano to be the best in terms of features and performance.

 

[Red One]

Adobe reader and EZ PDF reader. The latter works really good and loads up everything really fast. Adobe is good also. With those two. I have no problems with any PDF thrown St me. I do have other apps like Quickoffice HD Pro, Polaris, and Office Suite Pro also than can open PDF up. But the best as far as PDF readers only would be the ones I first mentioned.

What this guy said. That and I like that it searches all of storage for pdfs. I have a directory for everything project and sometimes it's difficult to track down the right folder. Ezpdf indexes everything. You just have to look at its "bookcase ". Don't gotta search high and low. And for me that's a plus since I hate wasting time.

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[5h4d0w]

Am I the only one who finds ezpdf frustratingly slow to page around?

 

[Reignzone]

EZ PDF has been quite simplistic & pleasant to use thus far, and I've used it for a few months now.
Fact is, not many paid apps offer a feature-rich experience comparable to this one.

Sent from the last remaining Prime; Leader of the Autopads.

 

[a Mandroid]

Am I the only one who finds ezpdf frustratingly slow to page around?

Ezpdf works faster if you enable force gpu rendering (in Settings>developer options) and then clear cache (settings>apps>ezpdf reader). You need to do a cold boot to take it into effect.(hold volume down and power button to boot)

 

[nhshah7]

I'm an EZPDF fan also. Best that I've found for annotating.

have you tried annotating for an entire hour straight? it crashes on me without even showing a FC dialog box. Its supposed to autosave but my notes from the last 5 minutes have often disappeared! I use RepliGo reader....i ponied up the cash for it and it's solid for annotating. A bit more of a pain to annotate with but at least it doesn't crash on me. Btw I emailed the ezpdf devs and never got a response. Repligo devs responded w/in 12 hours.

Am I the only one who finds ezpdf frustratingly slow to page around?

same thing here! I try opening a 400 page PDF and it takes 30 seconds to load 5 pages in front of and behind where i'm trying to look, which makes browsing page by page impossible! It has a better UI but repligo is the most dependable. by far. (I annotate pdf's for 3-4 hours/day minimum due to class slides)

 

[Hasan10]

Hi

that post was made by me.

I use the stock MyLibrary to load my ebooks, thus the whole "right out of the box" experience. It is very smooth for me, specially on force GPU rendering with Normal mode.

 

[Ride525]

Hi

that post was made by me.

I use the stock MyLibrary to load my ebooks, thus the whole "right out of the box" experience. It is very smooth for me, specially on force GPU rendering with Normal mode.

I see Force GPU Rendering in the Developer Options. But where do you get the Normal mode.

Thanks for your input.

 

[Hasan10]

I see Force GPU Rendering in the Developer Options. But where do you get the Normal mode.

Thanks for your input.

"Normal" mode is the power mode you select from the asus tool panel. Just tap the clock in the lower right hand corner and the panel would pop up. From there you can select three different modes. Power-saving mode, Normal mode, and Performance mode along with a bunch of toggles.

EDIT: Sorry its called "Balanced" mode not Normal mode.

 

[Rasa11]

on my android ive found ebookdroid app to be the best.

but usually use my nook.