What else can you do on the e-ink book with Android

Having somehow spent the next day at the computer, I realized that I could not continue working, because eyes hurt. Usually I have a few days of rest, and I'm back in the ranks. But these few days have to live almost without a computer and not stare at a mobile phone.

But to abandon computer technology as a whole does not work, dependence requires a new dose! This is where devices with an E-ink screen can help - their eyes don't hurt. For a year now, I have been using the Nook Simple Touch. It immediately installed Android 2.1 with a bunch of self-written programs from Barnes & Noble. After rutting, it turns out, though old, but full-featured and complete android. As an example, the Nook will be used further, however, by analogy, you can do similar actions on any other book with Android. So, what can be effectively done on the reader, which applications turned out to be the most useful?


I will give here a video, according to the possibilities of the E-ink screen. After watching, I immediately wanted the same for myself.

After installation, the settings on the device immediately appeared: Plants vs. Zombies, Angry Birds, Tekken 3 (via Sony Playstation emulator). Everything worked, playable. It was very fun to show such features of the E-ink screen to friends. And this is where it ended: in the fast-refresh mode, artifacts periodically skipped on the screen, the mode was really not really used.
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However, since Opera Mini remained on the reading room
In fact, a smooth page scroll is not needed. Even if you flip through the pages through the touchscreen, you can orient yourself by the physical passage of your finger across the screen, and not by graphic feedback. Matter of habit. Of course, not too comfortable, but the need to go to the Internet counters does not occur often.

On the Nook Touch setup on Habré there is article . Much can be taken from there, from the differences in Cool reader : displayed in full screen, removed from the edges of the screen.

Cool reader by default on top displays a small strip of information about the book. This is convenient for those who are annoyed in the Nook'ah illuminated strip from the backlight on top.

I also want to draw attention to the ability to set the cover of a readable book as a screensaver. I really missed this after switching from paper books to e-books.


In my opinion, the myshyak article in the habrahuser does not pay enough attention to the Relaunch launcher he proposed . It has most of the functionality that is really needed on the e-book. For example, a task manager with the ability to kill memory-consuming processes.

You can talk about Relaunch for a long time, but it's better to just try it.

To read the PDF, I stopped at the free Orion Viewer . I manually adjust the trimming of the fields for each book, I saw the hardware buttons of Nuk without any problems.

From experience, I can say that sometimes reading an e-book in PDF is even more convenient than after a bad printout.

As a dictionary caught on ColorDict . It supports a large number of dictionaries, it is convenient for the touch interface, it works great on the Nook.


Crawling on the internet came across a must-have app for Android: Perfect Viewer - viewing comics and manga. Neither comics nor manga before the purchase of Nook'a I read.

As seen in the screenshots, the service panels of Android are removed, the picture is stretched to the width and does not fit entirely on the screen, the manga is readable without any problems. If you fit in height, the small text becomes completely unreadable.

About Perfect Viewer it was said that if you learn tap-zones, you will use it as a true professional. This is true, I saw the main menu only during the initial setup of the program. Automatic transition to a new chapter, opening archives, choosing another manga - all this is in the tap-zones.

Attention! There is an addictive effect! Not all works are fully translated into Russian. And if you really like the piece, you want to translate it into your native language. By the way, if anyone wants to help with the translation it is Kare Kano and is familiar with Photoshop / GIMP - welcome to the translation team ...

Now you can go to the topic of the first picture of the post - to the sound. Nook Touch does not support sound. At all. Iron for the sound is simply absent, the entire software part carefully thrown. But there “quite by accident” there is an opportunity to use USB via OTG. As an exit - use external USB zvukovuhi. Details in English with a bunch of links reviewed here .

Poweramp is traditionally considered to be the best music player (issue price $ 4). The latest version from Google Play works without problems on Android 2.1! Now you can listen to music, audiobooks, language courses on your device.

And I finally heard the promised Poweramp sound quality in reviews. On a mobile phone, the difference in sound with the same Deadbeef is insignificant. But on the reader the sound card is noisy and beeps. Equalizer and tone options just saved me. Also raised the bass slightly.

I use the slider preamp as a volume control, because None of the volume adjusters could work.

There is a genre of games that still survived - this is Visual Novell. A sort of mix of comics, books and games. Usually have musical accompaniment. For example, there is an interpreter of NDS-stories for Nintendo: VNDS . You can google games on rutreker on request [NDS].

If there is no fear of English and there is no desire to download something big just for the sample, then you can try something smaller. For example, Reaching Out .

I also want to remind you that Android basically has Linux. Accordingly, it can solve many similar problems. Need a full-fledged web server with PHP and MySQL? Please . Is it interesting to dig into the guts through SSH? Please . Hunting poking around in the console with the usual utilities from the console as vim'a? Please !


In conclusion, I would like to say that it is most convenient to read on the reading room. But it is not necessary to read only books: Internet, offline saved articles, comics, games. It should also be remembered that Android is a full-fledged operating system, and this gives many advantages and great opportunities for customization.