Aldiko Book Reader

by Antonio Wells Nov 20, 2009 5:00 AM – 15 Comments

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Aldiko Book Reader allows you to download and read thousands of books right on your Android phone. Anywhere. Anytime. Browse extensive catalogs of ebooks (most of them FREE) and download them from inside the app. Comfortable and highly customizable reading experience (font/background color, font type, margin, night mode, etc.).

Price: Free, $2.99

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Download and read books on your cell phone.
Thousands of books to download from many resources, most for free.
Can save you money versus hard/paperbacks or Kindle.

Cons

Some may gripe it doesn’t support other eBook formats, it supports ePub which offers thousands of titles.

Features:

Aldiko Book Reader Android App is a bookworm’s dream! Read your favorite books from your Android phone with clarity and cool features.

Features read progress bars, day/night background themes, swipe/tapp page advance, dictionary lookup, word search, bookmarking, sharing, and settings menu to control screen brightness and more.

Personally I hate reading books unless forced. I can’t remember the last time I voluntarily read an entire book… unless it’s on a monitor… I ain’t reading it! But this app easily encourages you to read books on the small screen. BTW, I’m reading H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man… what are you reading with Aldiko on your Android phone? (Comment Below)

Video: Aldiko eBook Reader

Watch on Mobile

: Aldiko Book Reader Recent Reads

: Aldiko Book Reader Download Books

: Aldiko Book Reader Book Shelf

: Aldiko Book Reader Opening Book

: Aldiko Book Reader Progress

: Aldiko Book Reader Table of Contents

: Aldiko Book Reader Day Theme

: Aldiko Book Reader Night Theme

: Aldiko Book Reader Bookmarks

: Aldiko Book Reader Text Search

: Aldiko Book Reader Dictionary

: Aldiko Book Reader Dictionary Definition

: Aldiko Book Reader Dictionary Find in Book

: Aldiko Book Reader Popup Help Tips

: Aldiko Book Reader Settings Menu

Usefulness:

Aldiko Book Reader Android App is very useful, infinitely valuable to those who love to read.

Ease of Use:

Intuitive… really easy to use… even offers popup help hints.

Frequently Used:

User dependent, anywhere from sparingly to multiple use daily.

Interface:

The user interface is sweet (two-fold); the catalog area has a nice modern book shelf theme featuring all your eBooks (reminds me of Borders), when reading a book you have crystal clear and well spaced text.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

AndroidTapp.com Rating! (4.6 out of 5)

Should you Download Aldiko Book Reader? Kudos to Aldiko for this Mobile eBook Reader… Must Have!

Developer: Aldiko

Tags: Aldiko Book Reader, Aldiko eBook Reader, Android Apps, AndroidTapp.com App Review, eBooks, ePub, Read Books on Phone

Categorised in: Books & Reference

15 Comments

By Craig B on November 20, 2009 at 6:39 am:

My only complaint is that there doesn’t seem to be any difference between the Free version and the Premium version. I don’t mind supporting the creator(s), but if you’re going to call it “Premium”, it should be somehow better than the standard version. Also, I’m having a weird bug where titles on the Recent Reads shelf are rendered in spaces and periods.

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By markos on November 21, 2009 at 12:41 am:

I like it it’s a nice app

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By mwd on November 21, 2009 at 11:58 am:

Are there significant differences with FBreader, which is free?

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By Tim on November 24, 2009 at 10:36 am:

Great app. I haven’t got it to read all of my old epubs just yet, but I think it’s probably just a matter of getting them into the right folder arrangement.

mwd:
There aren’t a whole lot of significant differences. I personally think the interface is much more polished. But Aldiko is free as well, unless you decide to pay for it (the free and paid versions are identical)

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- By Mike G on July 20, 2010 at 9:39 am:
  
  Did you figure out how to read EPUB files that you had previously acquired? I don’t see an option to open files that are not already on the bookshelf? I like the reader a lot but want to be able to transfer EPUB files that I already have on my computer to my Droid X and then read them with Aldiko. Any advice will be appreciated.
  
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  - By Dworkyll on August 31, 2010 at 5:54 am:
    
    Put your existing, non-DRMed epubs in the import directory, then from bookshelf view press import. It adds the content of the folder int your collection
    
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By mwd on November 27, 2009 at 4:13 pm:

Tim, Thanks for the info — I’ll check it out.

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By Flick on November 29, 2009 at 8:34 pm:

This is a brilliant find! Thanks for reviewing the app in such detail. I was quite surprised to find an eBook app for Android (for some reason thought that was the domain of Kindle and other eBook readers) – I think I might try the Art of War (or Disappearing Completely) as they both feature as popular books.

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By Rachel on December 12, 2009 at 12:34 pm:

Can you search by book title or are you limited to searching through the titles they have listed? Also, can you read about the book before downloading?

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By Bingo on May 27, 2010 at 11:40 am:

Thanks for the review. One bit of information that I am unable to get anywhere is: which dictionary does it look up? Does it connect to an online dictionary – in which case internet connection must be working to use dictionary. Or does it only have an inbuilt dictionary – in which case it is fixed. Or can it take external dictionary? Like there are many dictionaries available which work for mobireader.

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- By Android Tapp on May 27, 2010 at 11:51 am:
  
  It reffers you to an online dictionary on Google’s website, see how it looks in this screenshot: http://www.androidtapp.com/aldiko-book-reader/aldiko-book-reader-dictionary-definition/
  
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By Seung-yeob on August 20, 2010 at 11:05 am:

I’m the one who is very eager to make the best use of the app. Aldiko. Reading books is so much a part of my life that I was very happy to find out the application Aldiko in my Gallaxy S, newly-born Samsung’s smartphone. These days I am so depressed ’cause it takes much time to open my books in the Aldiko. Delaying time makes me so boring and not appealled to the Aldiko. Why does it so much time to open the books? How can I fix the problem concerning the delaying time? I want to know the way to solve this problem. Do other smart-phone open the book in Aldiko so quickly? Please let me know the solution related to the delaying time? Thanks.

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By sam on September 9, 2010 at 4:02 am:

hey friends i have an orientation problem as i move from one page to another the orientation gets disturbed and the situation gets that worse that i can see only half a page so to read a book i have to move to previous page to read the half page and then move to next page to read the another half plz help

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By jimmy on January 26, 2011 at 12:25 pm:

BLOATED! The latest V2 is bloated because of Adobe DRM.

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By John on February 1, 2011 at 4:27 pm:

Avoid going to version 2.1 – its definitely a backward step, lots of new features, but now is very slow to use. Size has increased dramatically to > 8Mb. Real pity, it was such a good app before this upgrade.

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