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Looking for ebook reader with these specs...

stymiee

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Dec 8, 2010
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  1. Reads PDFs
  2. Lets me import my own PDFs/eBooks
  3. Remembers what page you left off

#2 is probably the most important as I have a few PDFs I'd like to be able to read over time on my android phone. If I have to convert them to a different file type that's fine, too, as long as it can remember where I left off.
 
There are a few apps, but none of them are highly rated. Since I've not used a single one of these I can't really say what they will and won't do, but I believe they are all free so you could give them a shot.

MOBI-BOOK PDF Reader

BeamReader PDF Viewer

txtr eBook Reader & Store

Compra eBook - Not in English


As others will tell you, the most common way of dealing with PDF ebooks is install Calibre or Mobi Pocket Creator on your computer and convert the PDFs to either Epub or Prc and use Aldiko, Kindle or Nook to view them.
 
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  1. Reads PDFs
  2. Lets me import my own PDFs/eBooks
  3. Remembers what page you left off

#2 is probably the most important as I have a few PDFs I'd like to be able to read over time on my android phone. If I have to convert them to a different file type that's fine, too, as long as it can remember where I left off.

RepliGo Reader (Premium) is a PDF reader but it's like eBook reader.
It meets your 3 requirements perfectly :)
RepliGo Reader Trial - Android

Harry
 
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I did the Calibre thing a couple of days ago and imported a PDF file to ePub. The conversion went really good; however, Calibre has this thing about "ll" - the 1st "l" as in "L" is omitted.
I suspect that's a problem in the file encoding and not in Calibre. You could try a file from a different source to make sure.

Regarding the OP's question, converting the .pdf file with Calibre will only work if it's a "searchable PDF". If it's a raw page scan, it would either need to be viewed with a PDF viewer, or OCR'd and converted to text.
 
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