EBookDroid - PDF & DJVU Reader

John Smith

Excellent app. Used to use several, now this one is the only one I use. A request though - is it possible to make the soft buttons on the phone turn off for only this app without having to go into the phones settings? When reading at night, they're quite bright,which bothers both me and my wife. Thanks! Also please make one of the triple tap options increase/decrease scroll speed. Thanks!

E Dog

Update 5/13/22 - down to 3 stars. Once again i cant leave the app and go back....i get the logo. Plus rotating screen doesnt resize. Update 4/14/22 - Back to 5 stars now that loading issues and book cover images have been fixed.. I can also once again exit app and return to it without closing it down again.. Thank you! Original review - Been using this for about a decade now. Never crashes or locks up. Wide variety of formats. Has night viewing. It can be customized too. Love it.

A Google user

The best there is, by far, and it would be perfect if i could collapse the list of 'shelves' (available by taping the title) to match my folder structure. I have a LOT of shelves (research journal articles by topic, etc.) and don't want to have to scroll the whole list to get to the folders where i put related documents on one subject. That is, my Physics folder has subfolders, and i'd like to see 'physics' in the list of shelves until i tap it to expand the sub-topics. Still - as near perfect as i've seen. Too bad there's no Win10 equivalent...

Shouin Nelson

I like the simplicity and functionality of this app very much. However, there are a few things that irk me. In night mode, under the 'show' section of the right slide menu, the 'Outline' sub-menu is dark, but the Bookmarks, Drawings, Notes, and Notebook sub-menus are all still bright white. Using the 'Dark Room' setting helps dim the glare a bit, but I'd just really like ALL those panels to be dark following the theme of the main side menus. Why not just maintain that theme? The 'Outline' section itself is kind of wonky in 'Night' mode as well. Though it's dark, it doesn't quite match the theme of the main side menus. There's this thick white border around it, and I feel like the text within doesn't need be that large since it often leads to chapter titles being stacked. A wider side menu area, or smaller text would probably solve that. Next, while the 'Bookmark' visual indicator is fairly easy to see, the 'Note' indicator, the asterisk, can get lost, and both are hard to see in 'Night' or 'Dark room' mode. Please give us the option to control their color and transparency level for those modes or in general. Finally, the ability to also export annotations/notes as plain .txt files would be very helpful.

A Google user

I wanted an app only for reading DJVU files (I use another app for PDF files). This app allows you to pick and choose only file formats you are interested in, which is great. The rendering of fonts is pretty decent. There are no annotation tools to speak of, and the interface is pretty awkward (e.g. you have to search for books in specific directories) Overall, the app has a rather "clunky" feel to it, but it is good as a backup app or for reading the less popular file formats.

A Google user

Everything is really great with this app! I've read quite a number of lengthy books in it, and it's pretty comfortable. Kinda important to note: Text based formats (like epub / rtf / mobi / fb2) can be set to different font sizes so pages and line lengths are recalculated, but that's VERY hidden under All Settings > Format Specific > Fonts and hyphenation. I'd love for a quick access setting on the right side menu. This is because the portrait font size is about 1/3 of the landscape font size, which is a bit peculiar.

A Google user

If you have multiple book, comic, manga, and/or light novel series, then this app is terrible. Instead of having an image of the 1st volume represent each series in the library, they just toss every book in all the series' together. Plus, it says it reads epubs, but i can't get them to show up in the library at all. It has one of the most un-user friendly interfaces I've ever seen. It's consisting as hell to do anything in this app.

A Google user

Poor UI, user experience is not good. Nothing is intuitive, and options in the interface don't seem to consistently lead to the same place. Won't find books in the same folder where you've already opened other books until you manually open each one. At least it opens a wide variety of file types.

Karen Kietzke

This app has graphical issues under Android 12 which make it unusable. The developer stated that this is an OpenGL issue. I could work around it if there was a quick way to reload the file, and was going to bind reload to a tap, except that there is no reload command, and after 6 weeks the developer hasn't even acknowledged my request for that command as a workaround. It's too bad - this used to be my favorite app for accessing several pdfs at once.

Lorenzo Campanella

great app! organizes all my PDFs/epubs, saves my spot, and a bunch of other useful features. I like the "google search" feature when a word is highlighted, but I'd like it better if there was another similar Google search option right next to it that prepends "define" so the query becomes "define [word]", so I don't have to type it myself for words that don't show the definition at the top of the query results