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Old September 30th 18, 04:43 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Tim[_10_]
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I find myself switching back and forth between my ASUS Zen S 8 tablet
running 6.1 and my Windows 10 desktop. It is usually somewhat of a pain to
pick up the thread of the story when I switch back and forth. Do any of you
know of a decent epub reader that has both Android and Windows versions and
the ability to sync between the two? TIA
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Old September 30th 18, 06:13 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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"Tim" wrote in message
. 28...

I find myself switching back and forth between my ASUS Zen S 8 tablet
running 6.1 and my Windows 10 desktop. It is usually somewhat of a pain to
pick up the thread of the story when I switch back and forth. Do any of you
know of a decent epub reader that has both Android and Windows versions and
the ability to sync between the two? TIA



May want to give this a try:

https://www.adobe.com/solutions/eboo...-editions.html

I use it on Win7, Win10 but not on an Android device. However it does state
"...the most optimum format across PC, MAC, tablets or mobile devices." on
the link in the Overview.

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Old September 30th 18, 06:15 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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"Bob_S" wrote in message news

"Tim" wrote in message
.28...

I find myself switching back and forth between my ASUS Zen S 8 tablet
running 6.1 and my Windows 10 desktop. It is usually somewhat of a pain to
pick up the thread of the story when I switch back and forth. Do any of
you
know of a decent epub reader that has both Android and Windows versions
and
the ability to sync between the two? TIA



May want to give this a try:

https://www.adobe.com/solutions/eboo...-editions.html

I use it on Win7, Win10 but not on an Android device. However it does
state "...the most optimum format across PC, MAC, tablets or mobile
devices." on the link in the Overview.


And if I had scrolled down I would have seen the icon for Android App on
Google play.... and one for the Apple App Store.

Time to turn off the lights....

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Old September 30th 18, 04:59 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ken Springer[_2_]
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On 9/29/18 9:43 PM, Tim wrote:
I find myself switching back and forth between my ASUS Zen S 8 tablet
running 6.1 and my Windows 10 desktop. It is usually somewhat of a pain to
pick up the thread of the story when I switch back and forth. Do any of you
know of a decent epub reader that has both Android and Windows versions and
the ability to sync between the two? TIA


Check out calibre.

https://calibre-ebook.com/download


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Old September 30th 18, 06:38 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Tim wrote:

I find myself switching back and forth between my ASUS Zen S 8 tablet
running 6.1 and my Windows 10 desktop. It is usually somewhat of a
pain to pick up the thread of the story when I switch back and forth.
Do any of you know of a decent epub reader that has both Android and
Windows versions and the ability to sync between the two? TIA


Although I've not much used any eBooks, apparently you can upload them
to Google Play Books (https://play.google.com/books) and read them there
from any computer with a web browser. OneDrive supports ePub; see
https://support.office.com/en-us/art...e-26e37419c5e4.
Presumably you have a web browser on each of your computers.

Adobe Digital Editions, their eBook reader, doesn't list Android at
https://www.adobe.com/solutions/eboo.../download.html.
Yet there is an Android app listed for Adobe's Digital editions over at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...igitaleditions.

calibre runs on several OS platforms listed on their download page at
https://calibre-ebook.com/download. That's the one I downloaded on my
Windows computer when I got stuck with an ePub doc that didn't have a
PDF version (and I wasn't going to bother converting ePub to PDF
although there are free local programs and online converters).

As you your last requirement of "sync between the two", I don't see that
happening with a local program that only knows what you've done on that
computer. That's why I mentioned Google Docs and OneDrive since you
aren't using a local program but instead a cloud-based service.
However, I don't know if the online doc services qualify as a "decent
epub reader" since I haven't used them (and rarely have used calibre as
a local ePub reader since I rarely get nuisanced with ePub docs).
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Old September 30th 18, 08:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Big Al[_5_]
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On 09/30/2018 01:38 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Tim wrote:

I find myself switching back and forth between my ASUS Zen S 8 tablet
running 6.1 and my Windows 10 desktop. It is usually somewhat of a
pain to pick up the thread of the story when I switch back and forth.
Do any of you know of a decent epub reader that has both Android and
Windows versions and the ability to sync between the two? TIA


Although I've not much used any eBooks, apparently you can upload them
to Google Play Books (https://play.google.com/books) and read them there
from any computer with a web browser. OneDrive supports ePub; see
https://support.office.com/en-us/art...e-26e37419c5e4.
Presumably you have a web browser on each of your computers.

Adobe Digital Editions, their eBook reader, doesn't list Android at
https://www.adobe.com/solutions/eboo.../download.html.
Yet there is an Android app listed for Adobe's Digital editions over at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...igitaleditions.

calibre runs on several OS platforms listed on their download page at
https://calibre-ebook.com/download. That's the one I downloaded on my
Windows computer when I got stuck with an ePub doc that didn't have a
PDF version (and I wasn't going to bother converting ePub to PDF
although there are free local programs and online converters).

As you your last requirement of "sync between the two", I don't see that
happening with a local program that only knows what you've done on that
computer. That's why I mentioned Google Docs and OneDrive since you
aren't using a local program but instead a cloud-based service.
However, I don't know if the online doc services qualify as a "decent
epub reader" since I haven't used them (and rarely have used calibre as
a local ePub reader since I rarely get nuisanced with ePub docs).

You could put the Calibre libray on Google Drive and share it on
Android. It means though that you have to download the book on your
phone to read it, since Google Drive is only visable not usable, but you
can access it.

Al
 




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