If your hobby is reading books but don’t want to carry them with you wherever you go, ebook android apps are pretty handy and helpful. These apps let you download and read thousands of ebooks, magazines, comics, text books, child books etc. Apart from reading, you can sync and manage your last read page, notes, highlight across multiple devices and platforms. These apps also feature popular free ebooks and stories, you can enhance your reading experience with tons of settings and customization options. You can also share your ideas, post your activity on Facebook and other social networks.
Here are Top 10 ebook reader apps for Android Devices
1. Kindle
This app allows you to read, buy and download thousands of free ebooks, sync ebooks across multiple devices and platforms, you can customize the ebooks, you can even read magazines and text books in high-resolution. The app is free but requires amazon account to buy ebooks.
Availability: Free on Google Play
2. Aldiko Book Reader
One of the oldest e-book reader on Android platform, Aldiko supports epub, pdf and Adobe DRM encrypted ebooks. You have tons of options to select the reading environment, You can buy, read or explore thousands of ebooks from different catalogs, some extra features include global text search, dictionary etc and bookmark feature. The app has free and paid version on Google Play.
Availability: Free on Google Play
3. Cool Reader
Cool reader is an e-book reader that supports tons of e-book formats including the most popular epub format. The app has inbuilt file browser, text to speech support, dictionaries, and fonts support. You can bookmark pages, search the content, customize the settings like using volume keys to scroll, day and night mode and online catalog support. The app is free on Google Play.
Availability: Free on Google Play
4. Kobo
With this app you can read over 3.5 million free and paid ebooks, magazines, comics etc. It comes with ability to sync all notes, bookmarks across multiple devices. You can add books from web, email or Dropbox account and post your activity on Facebook. You can also customize your reading experience with lots of settings.
Availability: Free on Google Play
5. NOOK – Read Books & Magazines
This app has a collection of over 3 million books, magazines, comics etc. You can customize the settings to suit your reading experience. Moreover you can sync your bookmarks, last read page and notes across multiple devices and platforms. For visually challenged people, it supports talk back and magnification.
Availability: Free on Google Play
6. Free Books & Stories – Wattpad
This app allows you to read over 20 million free ebooks and stories. You can connect with your favorite writers, chat with other readers, sync your library with tablet, web and other devices. You can also write ebooks by using this app as digital e-book writing app so that others can read your ideas. The app is free on Google Play.
Availability: Free on Google Play
7. FBReader
This app supports most of the popular e-book formats like epub, mobi, fb2 etc. You can customize the reading experience, it also includes browser and downloader for network catalogs. FBReader supports external dictionary. The app is available for free on Google Play.
Availability: Free on Google Play
8. Google Play Books
Google Play has a vast collection of over 4 million books available for purchase and rents.The app supports different reading modes, fonts and settings customization, text to speech settings, Sync reading page, notes and bookmarks across multiple devices. The app comes pre-installed in most of the devices and needs credit or debit card details even for trying free ebooks.
Availability: Free on Google Play
9. Moon+ Reader Pro
Moon+ reader pro is a paid app which is ad free and comes with tons of options to make your reading experience enjoyable. You can shake the phone to speak using the TTS engine, password protection at start-up, headset and bluetooth controls and ability to back up books via Dropbox and Google Drive.
Availability: Free on Google Play
10. Mantano Ebook Reader Premium
This app supports thousands of free and paid ebooks, you can sync your library across multiple devices, it supports e-book formats like epub2, pdf. You can customize the reading settings, save and sync using the cloud service, browse the files using file manager, create, save and sync notes. The app also supports text to speech.
Availability: Free on Google Play
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Sagnik Das Gupta
