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7 Best eBook and Audiobook Reader Apps for Android and iOS Devices

Apps to make sure you never leave home without your eBooks, and allow you to do a lot more than just read.

December 20, 2012 TD Staff 3 Comments

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Kindle

Amazon Mobile LLC

Cost: Free

Rating: 4.2

Requirements: Varies With Device

The Kindle app lets you read eBooks and listen to audiobooks from the convenience of your mobile device. Kindle offers users the opportunity to access free eBooks and shop for new releases at the swipe of a finger. The app’s built in dictionary allows you to reference word definitions while reading for an immersive literary experience. Sync your eBooks across devices so you can pick up and read no matter which device you have in front of you. With the Kindle rent option, you can rent eBooks from your local library for free. Also, Kindle’s preview option allows you to sample books before purchase to avoid the dreaded buyer’s regret of a terrible read. This app is customizable so you can set preferred font size, screen brightness and page orientation of the books you read.

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Audible

Audible, Inc

Cost: Free

Rating: 4.2

Requirements: Varies With Device

Features:

  • Transfer books to your device over wi-fi
  • Chapter navigation, bookmarking, sleep mode, variable narration speed, button-free mode
  • Multitasking for background downloading and listening
  • NEW! Switch between reading and listening with Whispersync for Voice (compatible Kindle device required)
  • Access the Audible mobile store
  • Earn badges and keep track of your listening habits
  • Connect to Facebook and Twitter to let your friends know what you’re listening to
  • Get insider information about author events and more with the Audible Newsfeed

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Google Play Books

Google Inc.

Cost: Free

Rating: 3.4

Requirements: Varies With Device

You most likely received the Google Play Books, app (and widget) when you bought your Android device, but this app is pretty convenient. If you need to get or have it and never use it, Google Play Books is easily update-able and keeps pretty current with what people are reading, presenting you with the options you need to stay on top of today’s media. Plus, with Google’s efficient syncing features, you can know for sure that you will pick up where you left off on any device—mobile or not.

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Aldiko Book Reader

Aldiko Limited

Cost: Free

Rating: 4.4

Requirements: Android 2.1 and up

The Aldoki Book Reader app is pre-installed on on a few smart devices, but offers convenient reading which proves its necessity as a mus have eBook app. The app allows you to browse and purchase eBooks on the go and automatically remembers where you left off to ensure that you can keep reading. With options for in-app browsing, the Aldiko Book Reader also allows you to import other ePublications and PDF files that you already own. You can oranize these imported titles by tag and category, plus, as with downloaded content, you can change the appearance of your texts with the app’s fully customizable option settings.

Features:

  • Support EPUB, PDF formats as well as Adobe DRM encrypted eBooks.
  • Support eBooks from public libraries.
  • Fully-customizable reading experience: adjust font size, font type, font and background colors, margin, alignment, line spacing as well as brightness to best suit your preference. The Aldiko Book Reader also supports night-time reading.
  • User-friendly interface: the Aldiko Book Reader supports both Android phones and tablets. You can create your own bookmarks anywhere in the book, rapidly jump to a different section of the book through the table of content.
  • Advanced library management system: import your own EPUB and PDF files into the app to read them on the go; organize your eBooks by tags and collections. Aldiko will also remember your reading position automatically, bring you back to where you left off.
  • In-app shopping experience: browse huge catalogs of eBooks, including best-sellers, new releases and classics (lots of them are FREE)
  • Other cool features not to miss: global-text search in a book, dictionary, add your own favorite catalogs and many more

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Audiobooks

Audiobooks.com

Cost: Free

Rating: 4+

Requirements: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5

Listen to audiobooks on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with Audiobooks for iOS. Download up to 2 audiobooks at a time over wi-fi for offline listening or stream audiobooks instantly from our library of more than 10,000 bestsellers and new releases.

Features:

  • Auto-download books in the background just by hitting “Play”
  • Stream audiobooks instantly
  • Customize your settings to automatically stream or download books over wi-fi or cellular networks
  • 10,000+ best sellers, new releases and audiobooks for kids – and we’re adding more titles all the time
  • Automatic bookmarking means you never lose your place
  • Full-featured audiobook player integrates with native iOS functionality to automatically pause when your listening is interrupted by a phone call
  • Save books to your personal reading list so you always know your next listen

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Moon+ Reader

Moon+

Rating: 4.5

Requirements: Android 2.2 and Up

Moon+ Reader allows you to browse and read eBooks from online or rent them from online libraries. The app offers an in app dictionary, as well as, highlight, annotate and translate options. Moon Reader+ offers a handful of app appearance customization control, as well as, a robust and easily searchable bookshelf design. One of the most advantageous options on this app is the ability to engage an option to keep eyes healthy during long periods of reading and switch the screen brightness to default day and night modes.

Features:

  • Support txt, html, epub, mobi, umd, fb2, chm, cbr, cbz, rar, zip or OPDS
  • Full visual options: line space, font scale, bold, italic, shadow, justified alignment, alpha colors, fading edge etc.
  • 10+ themes embedded, includes Day & Night mode switcher.
  • Various types of paging: touch screen, volume keys or even camera, search or back keys.
  • 24 customized operations (screen click, swipe gesture, hardware keys), apply to 15 customized events: search, bookmark, themes, navigation, font size and more.
  • 5 auto-scroll modes: rolling blind mode; by pixel, by line or by page. Real-time speed control.
  • Adjust the brightness by sliding your finger along the left edge of the screen, gesture commands supported.
  • Intelligent paragraph; indent paragraph; trim unwanted blank spaces options.
  • “Keep your eyes health” options for long-time reading.
  • Real page turning effect with customized speed/color/transparent; 5 page flip animations;
  • My Bookshelf design: Favorites, Downloads, Authors, Tags; self bookcover, search, import supported.
  • Justified text alignment, hyphenation mode supported.
  • Dual page mode for landscape screen.
  • Support all four screen orientations.
  • Backup/Restore options to cloud via DropBox, sync reading positions between phones and tablets.
  • Highlight, Annotation, Dictionary (Offline or Online, support ColorDict, GoldenDict, Fora, ABBYY Lingvo, etc.), Translation, Share functions all in this ebook reader.

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iBooks

Apple

Cost: Free

Rating: 4+

Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5

Apple’s iBooks is a convenient eReader app with its own in-app bookstore. iBooks opens a variety of different file types and even gives you the option to print PDF documents. All purchased books are saved on the app’s bookshelf, which is conveniently in iCloud. Add ePUB and PDF files to your iTunes and sync your device to get access to nonpurchased content. This app also offers a variety of different usability features, one of them being 18 different languages, to make using the app easy and cutsomizable—for example font size, different layouts, annotations etc. Also, using your mobile devices’ reader accessibility feature you can turn this eReader app into an audiobook player.

Features:

  • Download best-sellers and classic books from the iBookstore
  • Find fully illustrated books, including children’s picture books, designed art books, photo books, cook books, and more in the iBookstore
  • Experience gorgeous fullscreen Multi-Touch books designed for iPad. These books are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, videos, and more
  • Read a free sample of any book on the iBookstore before making it a part of your permanent collection
  • Choose from seven beautiful fonts, three easy-to-read page colors, and three useful page layouts—including Book, Full Screen, and Scroll
  • iBooks beautifully renders text written in 18 different languages
  • Highlight your favorite passages and add notes with the built-in bookmarking features
  • Share quotes, or thoughts about your favorite book with friends on Facebook, Twitter, Messages, or Mail
  • Find a word, character, or phrase anywhere in your book with the built-in search feature
  • Easily adjust your screen brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment
  • Use iBooks with the amazing accessibility features in iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch—such as speaking the words on a given page
  • Print PDF documents and notes you’ve written in iBooks using AirPrint
  • Organize your books and PDFs into personal Collections that appear on all your devices
  • Keep your bookmarks, highlights, notes, and your current page up-to-date everywhere using iCloud
  • See all your iBookstore purchases in iCloud—right on your bookshelf with iOS 6
  • iBooks also opens content published in the ePub and PDF formats
  • Add ePub and PDF documents to iTunes and sync them to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
  • You can also add PDF documents from Mail to your iBooks PDF Collection

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This collection of apps focuses on applications geared towards downloading, storing and accessing digital eBooks and audiobooks with your mobile device. Digital eBooks and audiobooks are great ways to not only spend downtime, but also compensate for times when free time catches you off guard — like waiting for transportation or meeting delays.

When looking for an eBook reader or an audiobook player it is important to keep a few features in mind. First off, you need to make sure the application you are downloading has an auto save and resume feature that allows you to pick up where you left off, ideally across devices. This feature is handy when you don’t have the time, or focus, to finish a book in one sitting. It is also convenient to have a reader app with the ability to annotate and take notes on texts; this will ensure that you will remember key points or just favorite parts of the books you read. Another option that helps guarantee an app is worth getting is the ability to import files. Some apps let you download most types of readable content files like EPUB, PDF or TXT; this is important when you are downloading content from sites like Project Gutenburg.

Also, if you are interested in customizing font size, presentation mode, screen brightness etc., it is a good idea to make sure the app has a robust list of customizable options to guarantee you can adjust your settings to your exact preference.

Below are six eBook and audiobook reader apps that possess a lot of these desirable qualities; finding the right eBook or audiobook reader app is completely up to your preferences.

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