| The auduaReader program reads any length text and html books easily on your Android phone. You may browse on your phone's drive for documents to read. Once a book is parsed and loaded auduaReader remembers what page and line you are on as you read the book | . |
Current version is 0.11.0 |
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See also: Change Log - see what's new
FAQ - get answers to common questions |
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When auduaReader starts you will have a blank booklist. To add books to the list click the MENU button and select "Add a book" to then browse your phone's storage for files (books) to read. The directories are shown first and then any compatible files are listed.
auduaReader reads books that are in your telephone storage. You can put them there by downloading them from the web or using the usb cable to store onto the sdcard (by default auduaReader browses to the sdcard). I often go to Project Gutenberg for books. For pdf books, I recommend using Mobipocket Creator to convert books to html. When you create a mobipocket file the created .html intermediate file works well with auduaReader.
Version 11(0.9.0) now supports images in a book. If you used Mobipocket Creator, copy the .html file and any images (gif,png,jpg) from the intermediate directory to the phone to see the pictures. 0.9.0 only supports local images (on the phone sdcard) not web-referenced images.
You can page up/down using the volume control while reading.
You can click part of the screen to page up/down. While you read a book, the page has three zones:
* Change the clickzone mapping in Settings.
* Enable or disable the page and chapter-flip sounds in Settings.
* See the click zones by using a long click (press for a second) in the top or bottom zone. Long click again to remove the display.
Note that I prefer top zone == page forward since your thumb naturally clicks there (I use bottom zone for page back). It's not standard so it's not the default, but it's far more comfortable imho.
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| default landscape zones |
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| default landscape text mode zones |
auduaReader can automatically scroll the page you are reading. You can select the scroll speed (the G1 maxes out at about 120 lpm). The desired speed (in lines per minute) displays at the top of the screen. Once you get used to this it's pretty comfortable.
To auto-scroll click the invisible auto-scroll button on the far right.
To stop auto-scrolling click the button again.
top zone - click in the upper third of the page to slow down. On the far right is a page backward button.
middle zone - click and drag in the middle third of the page to scroll by finger-drag (or fling). On the far right of the click zone is the auto-scroll start button.
bottom zone - click in the lower third of the page to speed up. On the far right is a page forward button.
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Browse through the list of files on your phone (starting at /sdcard/) to find a file to add to the booklist. Select a file and it is parsed and then opened for reading.
Toggle between detail, summary, and gallery views of the booklist. Gallery is not available if you have thumbnails disabled.
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| In summary view and gallery view a single click brings up the reader. Use long-click to edit book properties. |
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| In detail view a single click of a book brings up the book properties. Use long-click to read a book. In detail view you see the title, author, file name, as well as rating, which page you're on, and any review you may have written. |
Bring up most of the settings for auduaReader (not color and size which are done with the Widget).
Browses to this help document.
Bring up the on-screen control for setting font/background color and font size. When you drag a scrollbar and then release the window gets updated. You can use the back button or the on-screen menu to close the Widget control.
Select a paper background from your list of pictures. If you use a paper background the background color settings is ignored. To reset to no paper, select the Paper button but don't pick a picture. The paper is tiled onto the chapter you're reading. Here are some paper selections.
Bring up an on-screen chapter navigator. Use the up/down buttons to chapter flip up/down. Use the seek bar to swiftly change chapters/pages.
Bring up most of the settings for book reading (not color and size which are done with the Widget).
Enable Sounds
Enable and disable the click sounds the reader makes when you flip pages. At first the sounds will be useful confirmation that you've clicked well. You may find them annoying later (especially if you read in bed).
Enable Night Mode
At the request of my wife, who complained the phone was too bright in bed, I've added a Night Mode which switches text and background colors (then darkens the text) to darken the screen.
Show Title Bar
You can remove the title bar (showing the page number and title) for additional reading real estate. If you're reading a book, you'll need to reopen it to have this take effect.
Show Thumbnails
If you consider little pictures distracting or don't feel like using thumbnails, you can remove them and the required screen real estate. This only affects the booklist display.
Orientation
Pick from Sense (tell which way the book is being held), Portrait (standard phone holding), Landscape (as if the keyboard were out), and Landscape text (text is landscaped, but buttons are normal positions). The Landscape text mode may be more comfortable than standard landscape for page-flipping.
Allow auto scroll
If you find the auto scroll button distracting and only use manual scroll, disable this to remove the button from on screen. Note there are a few cases where it will stop autoscrolling (such as if you flip orientation), closing and reopening the book seems to solve that.
Stay awake
When auto-scrolling, there is no click to tell the phone to stay on and it will automatically sleep at some point. Enable this to have the phone always-on when you auto-scroll read. Be careful with this! If you put the phone down while it's autoscrolling it will eventually drain the battery.
Page amount
auduaReader can scroll by a full page, a page less one line, or a half page. Default is a full page.
You may find that page-1 line is the most comfortable scroll. I like it because I can check the last line for context if I read too quickly... auduaReader scrolls by pages where a page is the (integer) number of standard lines that fit in the view. When auduaReader gets to the end of a chapter it will go to end (which may be less than a full page) before flipping the chapter.
Top third zone
Set the reaction of the reader to a click in the top third. In landscape mode the button may be on top or left (if Landscape text).
Middle third zone
Set the reaction of the reader to a click in the middle of the screen.
Bottom third zone
Set the reaction of the reader to a click in the bottom.
Buttons on right
The auto-scroll button (and page flip buttons during auto-scroll) can be placed on the right or left. Use right if you hold the phone in your left hand so you don't brush the auto-scroll button by mistake with your thumb. Use long click to see the buttons.
Ignore line breaks
Some pdf converters put a line break at the end of each physical line in the book. That's wrong for a phone book-reader. Check this to ignore breaks.
Line height
If you want more or less white space between the text lines, change it here. 100% is normal.
Show paragraph breaks
Enable this to keep the standard extra line between paragraph. Paragraphs indent slightly in either case.
Single page stream.
Enable this to have the document flow as a single page. As you scroll through the document, new sections (chapters) will append to the chapters preceding them, giving the appearance of a single page document. NOTE: (new for version 8) the default is On - since it flows so well.
Text alignment
Select from left, right, center, or justified (aligned to both sides) for default text paragraphs.
Text font
There are currently only three fonts on the G1. These are serif, san-serif, and monospace.
I am an avid reader. I read about a book a day and own over 6,000 real paper books. This program is designed to be as ergonomic and simple as possible for just reading books. It has a tiny memory footprint and it's a small program. It works well with public domain books and with books that come as pdf convertible to html.