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Aldiko Book Reader Premium 2.2.0 is here!

Today we have a bunch of new features and great improvements to the Aldiko Book Reader, including highlighting feature, notes feature, home screen widget feature, 7-inch tablet support, faster PDF zooming, faster book cover loading in both library and store and many more. Let’s take a look:

(1) Annotation (highlighting and notes) feature

The long-awaited highlighting and notes features are finally here. Now, you can highlight and add notes anywhere in a book. To do so, just touch and hold a word or a couple of sentences, then select the “Highlight” or “Note” option.

Besides that, we make adding a bookmark to a page easier than ever. To add a bookmark to a page, just tap on the bookmark icon on the overlay menu.

To look at your list of highlights, notes and bookmarks, just tap on the center of the device display, you will then see the overlay menu. Select  “Go To” and then “Notes & Highlights” or “Bookmarks”, then you will see a list of notes, highlights and bookmarks.

(2) Homescreen widget feature*

The widget feature will display the list of books that you are currently reading (in the Recent reads section of your library) on your device’s home screen. This not only makes resume reading faster than ever, it also provides an elegant way for you to flip through the book covers of your currently reading books to choose which one you would like to resume reading.

(3) 7-inch tablet support

This update includes 7-inch tablet support. The app now works beautifully on 7″ tablets, such as the Nexus 7.

(4) Faster PDF zooming and remembering zoom level when turning page

With this update, you can zoom PDF files at a much faster speed. In addition, the Aldiko Book Reader will remember your previous zoom level when you turn pages.

Other items included in this update are miscellaneous performance improvement and miscellaneous bug fixes.

The update is currently available to premium users who have the Aldiko Book Reader Premium only. You can download the Aldiko Book Reader Premium from the Google Play (Android Market).

* Please note the widget feature works on Android devices running on Android 3.0 or above. In addition,  please make sure you install the app in internal memory of your device in order to make the widget feature work.

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  • Logan Kennelly

    I’ve always been partial to the manner in which Aldiko renders books, but the stripping of features in 2.0 was difficult to swallow. I had workarounds, but I’ve been inching torward Mantano. This change back is quite welcome.

    Bring back image zooming and I can party like it’s 2010!

  • Silvio Britto

    1 – hi, it’s a wonderful app, but this update missed again the major flaw in Aldiko to owners of tablets: please add a two-column in the landscape view.

    2 – another welcome new will be an integration with Colordict for dicionary

    3 – for 10″ tablets, the old resolution was better

    with this Aldiko will be simply perfect

    but great improvements by now

    PS: the new widget is not working yet, and force-closes the app

  • Jordan Yaruss

    Yup, I agree. I jumped to Moon+ Reader when Aldiko cut features out of 2.0, but I still miss Aldiko’s more polished rendering and features. I’m still hoping they bring back what they used to have.

  • http://goodevilgenius.org/ Dan Jones

    When does this update get applied to the free version of the app?

  • Logan Kennelly

    You live in the U.S., why not just buy the Premium Version for $2.99? It’s worth it even if you only use it a couple of times.

  • http://goodevilgenius.org/ Dan Jones

    I use it all the time. I use the app several times a day, in fact. But I fail to see what benefit the Premiuum version offers me.

    In fact, I’ve been thinking about switching to FBreader since the 2.0 update made one of the most useful features for me personally (i.e., OPDS catalogs) much more difficult to use. If this new version doesn’t fix that problem, I may switch.

    But even if I do stay with Aldiko, I still don’t see what features the Premium version has that are of worth to me. Can you tell me how it’s worth it?

  • Logan Kennelly

    It does stink that Aldiko assumes you don’t want to manage your own book collection and it takes three button presses to get to the list of OPDS catalogs, but…

    The only reasons to pay are to get updates earlier, remove advertising (I think), and support the developer … but those are pretty good reasons considering the price tag. They have a new, better version out, you want it, and it costs less than the price of a snack.

    I would easily buy it a second time if it meant receiving features that I wanted (namely image zoom and collapsible multi-level table-of-contents entries).

    PS: They bury “faster book cover loading” in the release notes, but it is vastly better now. You no longer have to wait while each cover is slowly loaded in reverse order before you can properly select the title you want.

  • http://goodevilgenius.org/ Dan Jones

    Earlier updates are not important to me (I asked about it not because I really want it right away, but just curious). I don’t mind the advertising. My only reason, then, would be to support the developer. While I think that’s great, I can’t be throwing money around right now just to show my support.

    Also, it’s not just the extra presses to get to my catalogs that annoys me, but having to wait a year and a half for the store to load before I can get to my personal catalog really annoys me.

  • Arthur Lueck

    This update really improved the responsiveness and accuracy of the touchscreen on my Xperia Ray(running ICS).

    It also stopped the notification LED ring from illuminating when I cranked the screen brightness up.

    Both *very* welcome changes.  Thanks!

  • http://goodevilgenius.org/ Dan Jones

    I just learned this version breaks Aldiko Sync (unless you’re rooted), and although I am rooted, I prefer not to give root permissions needlessly.

    I guess I’ll be switching to Moon+ Reader. It has sync built in, and it supports Dropbox (which I really like). Well, it’s been a good run, Aldikoo, but it looks like I’m moving on to greener pastures.

  • Anonymous

    This is a nasty move intended to break Aldiko Sync, which could have been justified if the latest Aldiko  version contained its own sync mechanism.  As it is they have just manage to annoy a reasonably large number of their users.  I use it as a backup mechanism more than anything at the moment but will be buying a tablet soon (Nexus 7). I’ve already downloaded “PageTurner Reader” as the main thing keeping me on Aldiko was the sync app. I used to use MoonReader but it was unreliable (may be better now).

  • http://goodevilgenius.org/ Dan Jones

    I don’t want to use an ebook reader whose syncing service requires me to sync with their own servers. That’s what I liked about Aldiko Sync: it used Dropbox. Moon+ Reader does too.
    It’s also the main reason I never switched to FBReader. FBReader Sync (besides requiring root) syncs on their own servers. It allows you to sync your books over Dropbox, but reading positions are kept sync on their servers instead. I never liked that.

    PageTurner doesn’t look very nice, either.

  • Anonymous

    Shame on you for intentionally breaking Aldiko Sync functionality. That could have been forgivable, had you actually included your own replacement functionality, but instead you decided that those of us with multi-device reading habits aren’t important to you.

    As the primary “android guy” in my social circles, I’ve historically always referred new android users to Aldiko as the “go-to” epub reader, but from now on, I will not only NOT be recommending it, I’ll be specifically recommending AGAINST it, for the simple fact that you have shown an obvious disdain for your customers, and now lack what I consider to be critical functionality present in other alternatives.

    The least you could have done is flagged it for non-automatic update, and provided a warning so that you didn’t just completely screw us over.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/SRMAICJB5J7L22F5NLE34UPJSE Jon

    By preventing people from using Aldiko Sync I will be dropping Aldiko from use and uninstalling it from my phone and tablet. I will also not recommend it to anyone who asks. In fact, I will be sure to tell them NOT to use it.

  • Anonymous

    I welcome the  fact that Aldiko now remembers the zoom level when I turn PDF pages – however, when I then rotate my Nexus 7 to landscape mode it uses the same (remembered) zoom level rather than expanding to (sideways) fill the screen. This makes it pointless rotating the device to get an instant larger view – as all you get is the same size text down the very centre of the screen. What Aldiko should do is have a different zoom level for each orientation.

    It would also be a nice touch if Aldiko remembered the selected zoom level(s) for each book – or at least have the option of remembering the user’s preferences across all PDFs.

    Cheers, Mike.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry about the duplicate entry – finger and brain trouble!

    I welcome the  fact that Aldiko now remembers the zoom level when I turn PDF pages – however, when I then rotate my Nexus 7 to landscape mode it uses the same (remembered) zoom level rather than expanding to (sideways) fill the screen. This makes it pointless rotating the device to get an instant larger view – as all you get is the same size text down the very centre of the screen. What Aldiko should do is have a different zoom level for each orientation.
     
    It would also be a nice touch if Aldiko remembered the selected zoom level(s) for each book – or at least have the option of remembering the user’s preferences across all PDFs.
     
    Cheers, Mike.

  • http://twitter.com/yunusercan yunus+

    gayet ba?ar?l? olmu?. fakat biraz daha geli?tirilmeli. örne?in; ak?ll? telefonumuzdan aldiko üzerinden ald???m?z notlar?, bookmark vb. pc üzerinde senkronize edebilmeliyiz.

  • cris bretfe

    Please, the blue colour for the links in the text is terrible especially in the night mode. Please make it configurable or at least change it.

  • http://twitter.com/musariven4ever J.S.

    This sucks … You even messed up the design, logo and icons …