Albite Reader 2.0 2.0.12

Description:

Albite Reader

An e-book reader for Java Mobile developed by Svetlin Ankov. It's free, and it's released under the Apache 2.0 License. The source code is available at GitHub. If you are interested in the licensing info of the used resources or would like to download their sources or build your own resources, see the paragraph about resources down the text.

Works with EPUB, txt and (x)html files.

Implemented features

anti-aliased bitmap font in four sizes with over 850 glyphs, including latin, cyrillic and greek
hyphenation for 29 languages
23 character encodings, including UTF-8 and most of ISO-8859 and Windows-125x
animated touch-guided scrolling
horizontal and vertical scrolling
on-touch dictionary look up
units conversion: temperature, length, area, ...
portrait and landscape view
images and basic styling
color profiles
portable book settings
bookmarks
table of contents
For more detailed information, have a look at the more comprehensive feature list or the tutorial.

System requirements

Profile MIDP 2.0
Configuration CLDC 1.1
Optional packages File API (JSR-75)
Used heap memory depends on the version

Installing the reader

It's installed like any other Java Mobile game. Transfer the jar file to your device, and then open it up from your phone's file manager. If that's not possible, you may need to download the app straight from you phone's web browser. You can easily do that, if you visit the mobile site.

Setting up security permissions

On most phones reading and writing files requires security permissions. Albite READER needs both: firstly, it obviously needs to read the book files, and, secondly, it needs to write per-book settings files that contain data about your book progress (including bookmarks). Therefore, if you don't grant permissions to Albite READER it will become impossible to use.

On some phones (e.g. Samsung GT-5230) you need to grant read and write permissions every time you launch the app. It's important that you select the option that will grant permissions and would not ask again during the the session or you might have to accept hundreds of requests. Such option might be titled Allow, ask once or Always allowed or Never ask. If you don't grand read permissions, you wouldn't be able to open books and the app would most probably close. If you don't give write permissions, your reading progress would not be saved.

On Nokia and Sony-Ericsson phones, you might be able to set permissions once and for all. Go to Tools, then App. manager, find Albite READER and set Read user data and Edit user data to Always allowed. The following screens are for another app, Smister, but the steps are the same.

Tutorial: Using the reader

First run

The first time you run the app you'll be presented with the license screen which you are obliged to accept if you are willing to use the app.

After that, the file browser pops up and you need to browse to the folder where you put the books. Bear in mind that depending on your phone you might not be able to see some folders or even if you see them, you might still not be able to open your books because of security restrictions. So, you might need to experiment a little. It's highly probably that you might be asked to grant read and write permissions to the app.