Let's try to figure out what kind of djvu file format is, how and how it can be opened on Android devices.
A little about the format itself
The .djvu extension is a lossy image compression technology. Most often these are scanned documents, such as books, colorful magazines, manuscripts, etc. The djvu extension is very similar and, in principle, is analogous to the famous .pdf.
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How to open such documents
How to open djvu file on android devices? To do this, you can use free applications that you can download to your gadget via Google Play – these are PDF Reader and EBookDroid .
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PDF Reader
This program is very easy to use and hardly needs any explanations on how to work with it.
To open djvu on Android using PDF Reader, you need:
- Launch the application.
- Go to the 'Search' menu item, after which all documents of compatible formats that are located anywhere in the device's memory will be displayed.
- Select the required document.
From the main functions in the application, you can:
- Quickly jump to the desired page.
- Change the scale of pages.
- Search by words (if the file contains electronic characters and is not scanned).
- Bookmark interesting places to quickly return to them later.
- Choose different viewing modes: page by page, as in a regular book, or continuously – in this case, the entire document looks like a scroll that is viewed from top to bottom.
If you just need to view the document as it is, then stop at this program. But if you are an avid reader and spend a lot of time reading e-books, then I advise you to pay attention to the following application.
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EBookDroid
This application has wider functionality in comparison with the previous analogue, and you can open the djvu format in it in different ways.
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Method 1
- Run the program.
- Choose an item from the 'Library' menu to display shelves that will contain all supported documents in the form of books.
Note: books will appear on shelves with different names, depending on which folders they are in on your device. You can navigate the shelves by swiping left or right.
- Select the desired file.
- After starting the application, click on the 'Files' item in the menu to launch the built-in explorer.
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Method 2
- Go to the folder on the device where the file is located and select it to display the content.
This application differs from analogs by a wide functionality in the viewing mode, where you can:
- Change the font in the document to a more comfortable one for you.
- Change day and night viewing modes, including additional settings for the night mode itself.
- Change the scroll mode between vertical or horizontal.
- Select one-page or two-page view modes.
- Set up the program interface for yourself by adding or removing the necessary tools on the display.
The application also supports OpenXPS, Comic books, FictionBook, EPUB and RTF formats.
And this is only a small part of the entire functionality of the application – to unleash its full potential, you will need to devote a separate article to this. Perhaps for someone EBookDroid will become the ideal functionality for his needs, while someone may be scared off by a huge number of settings, because for some, one function of transition between pages is enough.
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