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Read your eBooks quickly from Google Drive or local computer.
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Read your eBooks quickly from Google Drive or from your local hard drive. Ebooks also know as electronic books usually come in 3 main formats, PDF, ePUB and Mobi.
Bring the library with you wherever you are as you can access all your digital books which are stored online in Google Drive/OneDrive etc. You can read on any computer you want
as long as there is an internet connection.
Mobi Format - With the release of the Kindle Fire reader in late 2011, Amazon.com also released Kindle Format 8, also known as .AZW3. The .azw3 file format supports a subset of HTML5 and CSS3 features,
with some additional nonstandard features; the new data is stored within a container which can also be used to store a Mobi content document, allowing limited backwards compatibility.
Older Kindle e-readers use the proprietary format, AZW. It is based on the Mobipocket standard, with a slightly different serial number scheme (it uses an asterisk instead of a dollar sign) and its own DRM formatting. It also lacks some Mobipocket features such as
JavaScript. .prc publications can be read directly on the Kindle. Because the ebooks bought on the Kindle are delivered over its wireless system called Whispernet, the user does not see the AZW files during the
download process. The Kindle format is available on a variety of platforms, such as through the Kindle app for the various mobile device platforms.
ePub Format - The .epub or OEBPS format is a technical standard for e-books created by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).
The EPUB format has gained some popularity as a vendor-independent XML-based e-book format. The format can be read by the Kobo eReader, BlackBerry devices, Apple's iBooks app running on Macintosh
computers and iOS devices, Google Play Books app running on Android and iOS devices, Barnes & Noble Nook, Amazon Kindle Fire,[3] Sony Reader, BeBook, Bookeen Cybook Gen3 (with firmware v2 and up), Adobe
Digital Editions, Lexcycle Stanza, FBReader, PocketBook eReader, Aldiko, the Mozilla Firefox add-on EPUBReader, Lucifox, Okular and other reading apps.
Adobe Digital Editions uses .epub format for its e-books, with digital rights management (DRM) protection provided through their proprietary ADEPT mechanism. The ADEPT framework and scripts have been
reverse-engineered to circumvent this DRM system.
PDF Format - Invented by Adobe Systems, and first released in 1993, PDF became ISO 32000 in 2008. The format was developed to provide a platform-independent means of exchanging fixed-layout documents. Derived from PostScript, but without language features like loops, PDF adds support for features such as compression, passwords, semantic structures and DRM.
Because PDF documents can easily be viewed and printed by users on a variety of computer platforms, they are very common on the World Wide Web and in document management systems worldwide. The current PDF specification,
ISO 32000-1:2008, is available from ISO's website, and under special arrangement, without charge from Adobe.
Because the format is designed to reproduce fixed-layout pages, re-flowing text to fit mobile device and e-book reader screens has traditionally been problematic.
This limitation was addressed in 2001 with the release of PDF Reference 1.5 and "Tagged PDF",[28] but 3rd party support for this feature was limited until the release of PDF/UA in 2012.
Many products support creating and reading PDF files, such as Adobe Acrobat, PDFCreator and OpenOffice.org, and several programming libraries such as iText and FOP.
Third party viewers such as xpdf and Nitro PDF are also available. Mac OS X has built-in PDF support, both for creation as part of the printing system and for display using the built-in Preview application.
Older PDF files are supported by almost all modern e-book readers, tablets and smartphones. Newer PDF files may not display properly on older e-readers, may not open, or may crash them. However,
PDF reflow based on Tagged PDF, as opposed to re-flow based on the actual sequence of objects in the content-stream, is not yet commonly supported on mobile devices. Such Re-flow options as may
exist are usually found under "view" options, and may be called "word-wrap".
The benefit of reading an ebook vs paper books is you can bring the book around no matter where you are. The digital version of a paper book also allows you to add in bookmarks/highlight certain
passages and get help from an electronic dictionary if you are stuck with any words inside an ebook. The kindle/digital version of a paper book is also usually cheaper as the book publisher does
not have to print out the book.
Our digital ebook reader software extension can work in Android if you download and install a custom Chromium Android browser which allows chrome extensions to be installed on the Android operating system.
The most popular ebook reader nowadays is the Amazon Kindle as it has over 90%+ of the digital book market. The Amazon Kindle is able to open .mobi formats
You can read easily with our ebook reader online app. Our extension supports 2 common eBook formats, including Epub and Mobi. You can view ebooks directly from your computer, or from Google Drive
Disclaimer: Please note this extension is NOT made by Google and is made by an independent development team. All copyrights belong to their respective owners.
Google doesn’t endorse or sponsor this Chrome extension. Ebooks Viewer for Google Chrome™ is not owned by, is not licensed by and is not a subsidiary of Google Inc.