Which format of books does the android support?
Which format of books does the android support?
Modern smartphones are used not only forwatching movies and listening to music, but also for reading books. And so that the book is correctly displayed on the phone, you need to know what formats support devices on Android.
E-book formats
First of all, it's worth to clarify that Android isplatform, operating system, and support for certain formats of books does not depend on the android. In order for the phone to read various formats of electronic books, you need to install special applications. And depending on what formats this program can read, such formats of books the user and can read on the phone. Most often on the Internet you can find such formats of electronic books as fb2, txt, doc, djvu, pdf, rtf, epub, mobi and others. The most popular of these is the FB2 or FictionBook format. FB2 is an open format (based on XML) created by Russian developers. This format is best for reading books, as it contains information about the author of the book, illustrations, formatted text.Apps for reading books
So, so that on the android you can read books,you need to install a special application. First, you need to decide which format of books will be used. If you have not decided which format is better (or do not understand them at all) then it's better to use applications that support the most popular mobile formats - fb2, epub, mobi. Also an important condition is the possibility of the application to work with online directories, where you can download almost any book. One of the popular Android-readers (the so-called applications for reading books) is FBReader. It supports most of the most common book formats - fb2, epub, rtf, mobi - and plain text files. The uniqueness of this program is that it can choose any external OpenType or TrueType font and use it for reading. The application can extract files from the 7-Zip archives, and also import books from the memory card. To read books in djvu format, you can use the EBookDroid application. Since there are practically no applications for the android that allow reading the djvu format, this is the first plus of the EBookDroid program. In addition, this program also supports the formats pdf, xps, cbr and fb2. And the excellent speed of reading djvu and pdf formats only adds points to this application. In general, there are many applications for reading books. You can choose them for your taste and color. If all the books on the phone are of one specific format, then any program that supports it will be enough to read. If you need support for most formats, you can put several applications: one program, for example, will read the formats fb2, doc, txt, and the other formats pdf and djvu.
