Android phones and tablets
It’s worth getting the Adobe Reader App for your phone / tablet as this will allow you to resize the text in compatible PDF files with ‘text reflow’. Find out more.
In-built web browsers for some phones have ‘reading view’ available. You can also download browser Apps for this functionality. See the mobile / tablet section on the Browser Text Size page for more details.
Kindle Fire HD tablet
The Amazon Silk (in-built) browser has ‘reading view’ available. The Kindle book reading software also has three colour modes as well as font and text size options.
Relevant pages
Useful links
- Video: Comparison Kindle Fire HD with Google Nexus
- Video Playlist: Essential Tablet Apps
- Web Tool: NetVibes (blog aggregator, reading all you favourite blogs)
- Web Tool & Download: Evernote (clipping web pages, images and selections also making both text and audio notes, plus more)
- Download: FireFox mobile web browser (recommended browser as it provides a feature called reading view
- Download: BlackBoard Learn (The Blackboard app which allows you to connect to your institutions Blackboard VLE, if they have activated it)
What have you found?
Have you found an App or something with your Android phone or tablet that has helped you read documents on the go? Let us know by posting a comment below.
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