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Moon+ Reader Pro - You're In For a Treat!
Tested version: 1.3.6
Latest version: 1.5.1
Requires Android: from 1.6
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Summary
The trend for ever-larger screens has one major advantage: large screens make reading on an eBook a much more pleasant experience. Because let's be honest: nobody – and I mean nobody – wants to read a book on a tiny screen.
Moon+ Reader Pro is this week's App of the Week and it's one amazing app.
Find out how Moon+ Reader Pro can turn any Android phone into a portable ebook reader.
Features & Use
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I rarely start off an app review with these words, but Moon+ Reader Pro is truly an amazing app. It's definitely in the top tier of Android apps in general. So please forgive me if I sound a bit biased because I just can't say enough good things about this app.
First off, the app has a great simple yet effective layout that makes using the app a breeze. Seeing a greater user interface is a pleasant surprise for an Android app. You'll need just a few clicks and almost no brain cells to navigate around the app.
As soon as you've installed the app, Moon+ Reader automatically integrates any ebooks on your SD card into the app. After that step has been successfully completed, you can download new books from the multiple ebooks catalogs that are preinstalled. Moony, as I have nicknamed it, also features a great search function that can filter your results to your liking. Looking just for American books? Need to find stuff by Phillip Roth in particular? Or searching for a good Kamasutra book? It all works great except for one minute detail: every catalog uses a different search filter with some being better than others. The Guttenberg Project, for example does a much better job than the rest of the ebook catalogs.
You can also use the same search function to browse through your own books. Find ebooks on your SD card with a just a few clicks and the help of your file browser. It's great to see an app that so skillfully combines functionality with complete integration.
As you can tell, I am pretty big fan of Moon Reader+ Pro. Ever since the last update, Moon Reader has taken things to a new level in terms of user-friendliness and functionality.
Just in the standard settings, you’ve got features like day and night mode, automatic screen rotation and the display of the table of contents every time you start where you just left off in a book.
But here are the features that are the real cherries on top: the app can project text in a slideshow like a teleprompter or you can listen to the whole thing via text-to-speech as an audio book.
Obviously, the text isn’t read out loud to you by professional actors, but the feature is still worth a mention.
But the coolest feature of them all in my opinion is the ability to highlight and mark passages in the text. Using this feature you take direct quotes from the text and add them to your notes. You can them translate these passages using the Send to Dictionary feature. This is a godsend for both students and people reading literature in a foreign language. Obviously, all of these features work much better on the bigger tablet screen rather than on your phone.
So what cannot Moon+ Reader Pro do?
The answer is simple: Mobi, DRM and PDF. That may seem like a ridiculous omission given how great this app is, but that’s just how it is. Frankly, I am a bit disappointed because Moon+ Reader Pro would be a perfect app for editing and reading through PDF files.
Bottom Line:
This app can only be highly recommended. Because the app does such an excellent job, I am more critical with the rating. An app as beautiful and functional as Moon+ Reader should be able to support every format on the planet, especially one as popular as PDF. There is, however, hope at the end of the tunnel as the developers have promised to add PDF support soon.
Screen & Controls
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Moon+ Reader Pro reaches close to perfection in this category. Everything is very well thought out and everything just fits together wonderfully. My only problem with the settings is that fact it is impossible to adjust the scrolling speed. Also, it would be nice to see the page follow the motion of your finger instead of automatically flipping every time you touch the screen. Obviously, I am really being nitpicky here, but I just wanted to highlight the fact that Moon+ Reader Pro still has some room to grow.
Speed & Stability
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The reason for the low 3 star reason is the fact that Moon+ Reader Pro crashed three times during my two week trial period. I didn’t manage to figure out the cause behind them, but I still think it’s one force closure too many.
The positive thing is that the app automatically redirects you to the place where you left off every time the app crashes. Awesome!
Another issue: some of the books failed to download on the first try and I to try it three times in a row before they installed correctly.
Price/Performance Ratio
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Moon+ Reader Pro is available for €3.42 from the Android Market and AndroidPIT App Center. A very reasonable price for such a great product.
This week Moon+ Reader Pro is our App of the Week and is available for a discounted price of €1.69. Now that’s an amazing deal all around!
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Aug 17, 2011 10:06:36 AM
I wouldn't use this app unless I had a tablet. Very happy with Kindle for reading.
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Market Comments
Daniel, Apr 22, 2012
Impressive Seriously. I will look no further for a book reader. User friendly, nice looking. And it was the first reader who could read french. The ebook in Noneycombe 3.2 could do it. Too late I already fell in love with Moonreader.
Dragos, Apr 22, 2012
Great! Makes reading a pleasure. And it's a lot faster than its Aldiko equivalent. The only downside is that it asks you to rate it over and over again; really annoying.
Bearcat, Apr 21, 2012
A fantastic reader I've tried all the major readers (alkido, cool reader, fbreader, kindle) and this one is my favorite. The text is clear, the interface is *very* configurable and the pro edition adds some nice features making it worth the price. It synchs perfectly with my Calibre server too!
Jason, Apr 20, 2012
Great Reader This is a great reader. I use it for my school books and its great for looking up definitions and putting notes with it.
moosawi, Apr 18, 2012
Best Arabic eReader This is by far the BEST Arabic epub/ebook reader on the Market! If you found out that the reader doesn't support Arabic, go to the website of the application and download it for free. If you bought the Pro version and you noticed that it doesn't support Arabic, email the developer and he's going to send you the link to the version that supports Arabic. I hope this helps.
Martes, Apr 15, 2012
Nice Very good!! P.S. But for last time I can't find it in Google Play Store - whay? Only by Google Search in the flat web search.
MaevinWren, Apr 15, 2012
Best ebook reader! I've tried every ebook reader I could find (at least 5 our 6 of them) and this is by far my favorite!
70sGamer, Apr 14, 2012
Keeps getting better The best ereader out there for android. Does what it says. The direct link to Feedbooks alone is worth half the price. Some apps with free alternatives aren't worth paying for the extras. This app is worth every penny.
Niels Christiansen
.mobi would have been really sweet. Amazon seems to have orphaned the format, even if the Kindle format only have *one byte* changed compared to .mobi.