Mobile ebook apps: which ones do you use?

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Mobile ebook apps: which ones do you use?

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Which ebook reader apps do you have on your phone? I mainly read physical books, but I have google play books and amazon kindle on my phone, and use both now and then. What are your experiences of these apps? Any other recommendations?
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I just started using Ebook Prestigio. I like it for now, but it has been just one day. If I don't forget, I'll try to update this in a few weeks.
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I have iBooks, Kindle, Nook and BAMreader on my iPad and iPhone, and all but iBooks on my PC. I mostly use iBooks, but use Kindle quite a bit as well. I think iBooks gives the closest feel to paper books because of the way it handles page-turning and numbering.
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There are so many Ebook apps out there. I would really like to know which one is best. I have only tried kindle and I love it, yet I would really like a free one as well. Any advice?
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I have iBooks because I'm an Apple user. I also have a Kindle for books I purchased from Amazon and back when I was still using an Android phone, I used Aldiko reader. I tried a lot of reading app before and for my taste, Aldiko is the one who got it.
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Thanks for all your replies. I'm happy enough for now with the Amazon Kindle app for anything bought from Amazon, and google play books for anything else.
@uyky - how are you getting on with Ebook Prestigio?
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I use ebook prestigio as well. You can read a wide variety of formats on it and the outlook of the app looks pretty decent. My only problem with it is that it can be hard to highlight sometimes. Good app overall.
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I use BookBub for free and discounted EBooks. You can pick certain genres you like and they send you emails with free or discounted books from the genres you picked. I've been using it for a year and I enjoy it a lot.
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I use Adobe and WPS for my ebooks
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I have just been using the Kindle app as it's just really convenient as compared to the other apps out there.
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On an Android device, Moon Reader is among the best ebook readers. There's a free version and pro version. I've been using the pro version for sometimes now and I can recommend it.
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I have used Wattapad in past and it give chance to new authors to write their books and also allow users to come across books which have not been published yet. Nowadays I am using Any Books e-book app and is free of cost and a wide range of books are available on it.
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I use Moon+ reader an interesting app with a lot of litle things. So i actually recomend this one.

It is free and premiun. The free one uses ads wen you have webservices. So if you turn out your data roaming and wi-fy connections it not bothers you. The premiun one its pretty much the same but with a pair of extra options and no ads at all.

Lets start with the capacities of this E-reader in particular. It uses android plataform and quite the old one like 4.5 so it is compatible with old harware.
The book list displays like and old days wood bookcase a preety design for an app. The premium shows more variability. When you upload the books in the memory to de shelves they become part of the bookcase display (the covers) until you remove it so you can have more than a book a time.
Self traking of the lecture so if you read until page 67 one book and other one to page 130 tey boot have teir hown markings.
Contrast mode: normal black letters aganist a wite background normal images and grapics. And wite letters aganist black background the images and grapics turn in negatives.
Magnifier, it let you adjust the text to your preferences.
Reading safemode: once in an hour and half two maximum shows a message bloking the app 60 seconds giving you reminder to refresh your eyes in order to reduce the damage. It only blocks the app.

It haves a lot of format compatibility Epub, PDF, Mobi and Doc.
Good for tablet and cellphone
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Pdf drive and library genesis
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I use Kindle and Google Play, and sometimes iBooks
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