Laputa e-book reader

I seem to be discovering more and more interesting applications; I like it!

Yesterday I was browsing the market using my Viewsonic GTab and came across a new (to me) ebook reader. Out of curiosity I loaded it onto my GTab, and launched into the application.

The interface is similar to other e-book readers, but with the added bonus of some very nice looking 3-D graphics. I poked through the interface until I figured out how to import an ePub. Once i completed the import I was very pleased by the format of the book. Keep in mind that the final user experience still depends on the formatting of the book itself, but there are no noticeable detriments in using this reader.

After seeing the very nice UI on the GTab, I immediately installed the application on my Archos 70 Internet Tablet, imported a book that I had previously been reading using Aldiko. I found that some of the formatting errors that were apparent using Aldiko were not present using the Laputa reader. One huge flaw using Aldiko is that when viewing an ePub in landscape mode the margins are not rendered properly, leaving about 30% of the text wrapped to the left of the screen. None of this is apparent using Laputa.

Now, keep in mind that Aldiko is releasing a 2.x version upgrade soon(ish) and it will be interesting to compare these two wonderful applications after the upgrade is released.

Here is a link to the Laputa web site:
http://www.health-team-android.com/Laputa/Main.htm

I have also recently written a small piece on conversions usign Calibre, you can find that here:
http://gtablets.blogspot.com/2010/12/e-book-conversions.html

Again, Happy reading!