The eBook Reader Blog

I frequently get asked questions about which ebook readers are best for reading PDFs, and I’ve already written about what I think are the best ereaders for PDF reading, along with a list of the best PDF Reader apps for Android, but I thought it would be fun to rank some of the more prominent [...]

Adobe has released a major update for their Adobe Reader Mobile App for Android, iPad, and iPhone. Before the update, the Adobe Reader app was an okay free PDF reader. There were a number of other free and paid PDF apps that worked a lot better and offered a lot more features. But now the [...]

Below is a list of the best free and paid PDF Reader apps for Android. It turns out finding a good Android PDF reader is harder than it sounds. Running a search for “PDF Reader” or “PDF Viewer” in the Android Market turns up hundreds of results, and finding one that has all the features [...]

One of the more common questions I get asked here lately is how the Nook Touch handles PDF files. So here it is, the Nook Touch PDF Review, complete with a ten minute video tour. The review covers both the Nook Touch’s stock PDF functions as well as some different Android apps on a rooted [...]

Kobo Books has added 175,000 PDFs to their ebook library from more than 2,000 publishers, including Prentice-Hall, McGraw-Hill, Blackwell, Palgrave, The World Bank, Springer, Financial Times Press, Routledge, and others. The PDFs include medical texts, academic and scientific texts, dictionaries, economics and business manuals, technical manuals, and other education oriented materials.

For those of you waiting on the PDF portion of the PocketBook 602 review, I posted it earlier today on the new PocketBook 602 PDF review page. There are several screenshots along with descriptions of the PDF features and functions. The PocketBook 602 offers a number of options for viewing PDFs, but the bottom line [...]

One of the most common questions I get asked is which is the best ebook reader for viewing PDF files, the Kindle, Sony, Nook, which one? The sad truth of the matter is that no 6-inch ereader is really all that great for displaying PDF files. What it comes down to is the 6-inch screen [...]

There’s an interesting article over at TUAW about how Apple lists features for the PDF support of iBooks that it doesn’t have, like highlighting and being able to flip pages like with ebooks. There are some other features lacking in iBooks PDF support as well: you can’t add notes or use the built-in dictionary to [...]