I do a lot of reading on my Android devices, phones and tablets. After a long search I selected Moon+ Reader, the Pro version. The killer feature was the way bookmarks and underlining is handled. I mostly read non-fiction and like to mark important passages. And I want to be sure my marks are available forever. After I am done with a book, I create an Evernote clip from my marks and comments. With Moon+ this is done with a single click.
I did most of my reading on my Nexus 7 tablet, but when my phone was getting bigger I realized it would be nice to do some reading there as well. And it would be even nicer if I could synchronize the books, notes etc.
Moon+ provides some functionality in this respect but not all of it. So this is what seems to work:
I did most of my reading on my Nexus 7 tablet, but when my phone was getting bigger I realized it would be nice to do some reading there as well. And it would be even nicer if I could synchronize the books, notes etc.
Moon+ provides some functionality in this respect but not all of it. So this is what seems to work:
- Create a backup of the Moon+ main folder. Just in case. Many android file manages let you create a .zip file from a folder. Do it.
- Get a Dropbox account and set it up.
- On the device (old device) where you already have Moon+, open Moon+, go to Settings, check "link to Dropbox" and do a backup.
- Get Dropsync App and install it on all devices. The free version will be just fine since you will be syncing only one folder.
- On the old device set up Dropsync to syncing of the Moon+'s "main folder". Settings page will tell you which one that is. Typically it is sdcard/Books or sdcard/eBooks. Sync it to a new folder on Dropbox. Wait until in syncs.
- On the new device, set up DropSync so that it will sync to the same folder as on the old device. sdcard/eBooks, for example. For a first time sync, set sync methods as "download only". Wait until it syncs.
- On the new device, on Moon+ Settings page, restore from backup you made in step 3.
- You are done, all your past and future reading is on the new device.
- Change sync method in Dropsync to "two way" so that your reading is synced across devices.
- I suspect you could now uncheck the "integrate with dropbox" from Moon+ on both devices since Dropsync will be doing all the syncing in a much more complete way that Moon+.