May
27
2011
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Mobipocket reader for Android

Are you tired of reading online news on Android? Are you looking for offline Mobipocket reader for Android to read hundreds of Mobipocket e-books that were made for all PDA and Smartphones?

We admit that it isn’t easy finding an Android Mobipocket reader. Nevertheless, we managed to find one good Mobi reader for Android devices – see the review below.

It is apparent that Amazon wants to kill the Mobipocket format. So it is no wonder that those who own scores, and even hundreds of Mobipocket e-books feel bitter for the dearth of Mobipocket readers, especially ones for Android devices. One would expect that the Kindle app would support the format, owing to the fact that Kindle and Mobipocket are essentially owned by the same company and especially since Kindle and Mobipocket e-books are virtually the same file format.

If you want to read a Mobipocket e-book on your Android phone or tablet, forget trying to use the Kindle for Android app, it won’t read encrypted Mobipocket books. If you do own Mobipocket books, you can use iReader to read those e-books.

iReader allows you to enter your Mobipocket and eReader PID to unlock the Mobipocket books that you already own. This Android e-book reader supports CHM, TXT, PDB, Mobipocket, Ereader and UMD (a popular Chinese e-book format) books. However, to read Mobipocket-formatted books, including those with DRM, you will have to purchase the full version of iReader.

Overall, iReader works well and supports popular features you would expect from a good electronic book reader including:

  • Backup and restore of your e-books.
  • Icon, font, background image and style settings.
  • Page turning effect.
  • Automatic bookmarking of where you were last reading.
  • Mobipocket DRM support (full version only).

While iReader supports Mobipocket books, it doesn’t support some other popular standards such as Zip files, Epub, Lit and FB2 formats, but owing to the fact that there are other e-book readers that support these, we figure most consumers will be happy to just have iReader as a dedicated Mobipocket reader and use other mainstream Android e-book readers such as Nook or Kindle for Android to handle their other e-books.

Conclusion

In any case, it seems as if iReader was developed primarily to serve Android users who previously didn’t have an option to read their Mobipocket books. We think it is a good solution and while we don’t expect many developers to spend their resources to develop a product to support a format that is essentially dead, some competition would be good.

So while Amazon seems determined to kill off Mobipocket and lockout their legacy users, iReader gives owners of Mobipocket books an option to access and read the books that they already have, providing that they have an Android phone of course.

Download link: iReader for Android

Hope you enjoy Offline Digital Mobile Map together with Offline Ebook Reader for Android. :-)

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May
27
2011
0

Offline Dictionary for Android

Are you looking for offline dictionary for Android? Try DictionaryForMIDs for Android. DictionaryForMIDs is a flexible dictionary that can be set up with dictionaries for all languages around the world. For example it is possible to set up (= configure) DictionaryForMIDs with an English to Spanish dictionary as well as for an English to Vietnamese dictionary.

Beyond language dictionaries, it is possible to set up any other dictionary for DictionaryForMIDs, for example a ZIP-dictionary, a phone dictionary, a dictionary of medical terms, etc.

Highlights of DictionaryForMIDs include:

  • Plenty of functions and numerous customization options.
  • Sophisticated search features that also allow to find phrases and use of various wildcard characters.
  • Language-specific search features, that allow to find words with similar writing or pronounciation.
  • Very short search time for translation thanks to elaborated index structures.
  • Localization of the user interface to many languages.
  • Bitmap font support for devices that do not provide the fonts for a language. E.g. Japanese letters are displayed on non-Japanese cell phone / PDA.
  • Runs on a huge variety of cell phones and PDAs and also on PCs.
  • Open source project and as such free SW.

DictionaryForMIDs is an open source project and free software (the GPL license applies). Please note that the dictionaries that are set up for DictionaryForMIDs may have different copyrights. All dictionaries that can be downloaded from this site are free to use.

Download Offline Dictionary for Android from here http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/

Offline dictionaries data are provided in the section dictionaries for download.

Hope you enjoy offline digital mobile map together with offline dictionary :-)

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