What are your secret weapons for reading? Update!

[J_BlueFlower]

Lynn wrote: " Now in order to read my Kindle books I must be actively connected to wifi or download to a Kindle device..."

You can use Moon+ Reader Pro app for Kindle books too. They are in Mobi format.

[Ian]

You can open PDFs into the GoodReader app, at least on iOS and IPad OS Apple devices. I find it works very well on my iPad, and saving your place is fairly straightforward. Jumping around for endnotes is another matter.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Thank you two so much. I had to get a new phone recently. I went back and tried again to download the Kindle App and this time it worked!! Yippie. I had given up when the phone was new and installing all the apps.

Again thank you. I just downloaded the Moon Reader to my phone. I then downloaded a Manybooks.net pdf (Erasmus - In Praise of Folly). It is nice and Moon Reader remembers my place in the pdf in a way my laptop will not.

[Ian]

GoodReader is an iOS/iPad OS device exclusively, which I didn’t make clear. See Wikipedia for a rundown of its many functions. Including split screen, which does help with endnotes but is harder for me to read.

[J_BlueFlower]

Lynn wrote: " I then downloaded a Manybooks.net pdf (Erasmus - In Praise of Folly)...."

I can strongly recommend giving the Epub format a try. PDF is formatted by the sender. Reading in epub means you can format it as you like it: Font size, linewidth, line spacing, colour, left-justify,... (small screens and right-justify is ugly, if you ask me).

In Praise of Folly by Erasmus is on Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30201
In the Moon Reader app on the bookshelf page swipe right 3 times to get to the “Net Library” page. You can download it this way.

An other feature I use a lot is to point on a word or phrase. The little menu you get is also customizable. I have “highlight, note, dict., search, more” more leads to Wikipedia, Google and so on.

I non-fiction I use highlight and notes a lot and then email my notes to myself.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "Lynn wrote: " I then downloaded a Manybooks.net pdf (Erasmus - In Praise of Folly)...."

I can strongly recommend giving the Epub format a try. PDF is formatted by the sender. Reading in epub means..."

Thanks. I plan on traveling a little in the next month, so having books on my phone will be perfect. I spent some time yesterday downloading a dozen books or so to my phone.