Mantano Reader

by Mantano

Product Details

• Download restrictions
  • AT&T has enabled purchases from the Amazon Appstore for some devices (Learn more)
  • Amazon Appstore is only available to customers located in the United States
• ASIN: B0052UGUJS
• Original Release Date: August 1, 2011
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 1, 2011
Rated: Ages 9 and Older This app may include dynamic content. What's this?
This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,163 Paid in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Paid in Appstore for Android)
  • #58 in Appstore for Android > Books & Comics > Books & Readers

Product Features

• Explore the world of PDF, OPDS, and EPUB books through your Android device
• Build your reading vocabulary with dictionaries and a Personal Lexicon
• Search and annotate your book collection
• Use advanced margin, column and zooming features for PDF format
• Find new books online in seconds with the Bookfinder

Technical Details

• Size: 7.9MB
• Version: 1.6.7.5
• Developed By: Mantano
Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
• Read only access to phone state.
• Write to external storage.
• Open network sockets.
• Access information about Wi-Fi networks.
• Access the vibration feature.
• PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
• Access information about networks.
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.1
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 1 minute

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Reader for HoneyComb Tablets, June 30, 2011

By 

Takashi Takahashi - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mantano Reader (App)

*7 days free trial version is available on Android Market.

Background: I have great amount of custom EPUB files. Some of which goes up to 500MB. These contain fancy tables with text and images. Also multilevel Table of contents etc. I also have great amount of PDFs with some of which goes up to 80MB. I really wanted to be able to read these in fact this was one of reason I got my Tablet. Tried pretty much all readers on the market including Aldiko, Cool Reader, FBReader, StarBook, MoonReader, Mylib etc. My current Android Tablet is Samsung Galaxy 10.1.

Among the all I tried, this beats everything else by far and $5 is worth it. Here are reasons with some comparison to other epub readers.

1) Rendering of EPUB
This uses ADE (Adobe Digital Edition) Engine. For those of you have used it on Desktop knows that it flies. When many other EPUB reader took even up over minutes to open 500MB epub file, ADE opens in 2 seconds. This indeed applies to Mantano Reaer as well. The other reader I know uses ADE is Aldiko. So rendering are essentially identical on both. Starbook and Mylib may be just uncompressing files and open simply as straight HTML format so their rendering was great as well. But others could not render my files.

2) Stability
This is one biggest feature sets Mantano apart from Aldiko, which I had to say probably had the best potential and thought I had to wait until Aldiko matures for tablet until I see Mantano. But Aldiko actually force closed 100% on Xoom. For some reason, it was better on Samsung Galaxy but still had occasional force close. Mantano I have not encountered any.

3) UI
Undoubtly professionally built UI quality. Table of content has collapsable tree. Very clean and intuitive.

4) Speed
This is yet another factor that placed Mantano over the Aldiko. Page to page flipping on large EPUB file is very smooth on Mantano; whereas, on Aldiko essentially every page flip I had to wait at least 2-5 seconds.

When it comes to PDF. This flies. 80MB PDF opened in no time.

5) Annotation, Highlight
Aldiko did not have this feature. Perhaps other readers might have had these features but due to lack of ideal rendering for my files, I could not even get that far on others.

6) Custom Support
Major factor. This is what makes I belive one reader probably the best over the other at least until Mantano came by. Again as I believe Mantano is already by far the best. But all the others had its own pros and cons. When I addressed issue with each reader to developer in a hope, one of them eventually become my ideal reader, unfortunately none did quite their job at least in timely manner. Mantano developers are very responsible.

Known issues:

1) Table of Content: Large table of content takes forever to load. In fact, this was only time I saw Force close option popped up. If I click wait, eventually it resolves and worked fine. But for 500MB file it took close to minute to load the TOC.

2) Couple UI subwindows are not tablet optimized.

Above two I have just sent email to developer today as they have just rolled out Tablet optimized version today. They have already responded and told me these will be fixed in next version.

If you have never tried this, just give a shot on trial version. That's what I did and on my 6th day. I knew this is what I wanted. So I purchased one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best PDF/epub reader for Android, November 16, 2011

By 

X. LI "lxl" - See all my reviews
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Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Mantano Reader (App)

I tried several PDF/epub readers for Android, and this is the best one I could find. The UI is very clean yet it has so many features. Too bad that it won't work for the newly released Amazon Fire and now I am in need of finding an alternative which I doubt that could be as good as this one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for both epub and PDF, November 5, 2011

By 

J. L. Hoag - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mantano Reader (App)

I've been using this app on my CM7 Nook Color for about a month, having previously read my epubs in Aldiko and mostly given up on PDFs. Epubs remain superior, but Mantano gave me back the PDFs in my library, with smarter, more consistent display options and faster navigation than ezPDF. The devs actively solicit and listen to feedback, and it shows in the updates. For that reason, I would suggest getting Mantano from that other market, where the updates arrive in a more timely fashion ;)

I also find the library more informative and easily navigable than other readers, with minimal setup.