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Bought a PDF From Kobo? It’s Going Away After 1 November

3 August, 2017 // 12 Comments

Have you visited your "My Books" page on the Kobo website lately? Me neither, but someone on Mobileread has noticed that Kobo has added a notice to that page telling users that PDFs are going away. [Read More ...]

Did You Know You Can Play Games in PDF Files?

6 July, 2016 // 0 Comments

PDFs are now known simply for being the most universal document (fixed layout or not), but as developer Omar Rizwan showed us recently, they are capable of so much more. While [Read More ...]

Google Docs Gains Epub as an Export Option, But You Should Stick With the Other More Useful Options (PDF!)

10 March, 2016 // 12 Comments

Earlier this week Google added a new export option for Google Docs which let you produce an Epub file from the webdoc you're working on, but the new option is far less useful than one might hope. [Read More ...]

eBook Snobbery Run Amok, or Yes, a PDF is Still an eBook

5 March, 2016 // 15 Comments

eBook fans have long had to contend with snobs who separate "real" books from ebooks, and now we're starting to turn on ourselves. The most surprising example of Epub snobbery crossed my desk this [Read More ...]

iOS 9 Adds Save to PDF “Sharing Option”

28 June, 2015 // 7 Comments

iOS has long supported many ways for you to share the content you're browsing, and iOS 9 is going to add a new one. iDownload blog has noticed that the latest beta release of iOS 9 includes an [Read More ...]

Adobe Reader for iOS and Android Updated, Renamed Acrobat DC

7 April, 2015 // 8 Comments

For the past several years Adobe has been bundling more and more paid services into its consumer-level Adobe Reader app, and today they finally erased the last distinction between the two apps. I got [Read More ...]

Goodreader PDF App Updated

20 October, 2014 // 0 Comments

The best PDF app for iPad and iPhone was updated today with a bunch of bug fixes and new features. In addition to direct support for loading files from iCloud, Goodreader also gained a couple new [Read More ...]

GoodReader Hits v4.0, Adds PDF Editing and Creation Features

8 May, 2014 // 0 Comments

GoodReader is without a doubt the best PDF app for the iPad and iPhone and it just got better. A new update was rolled out yesterday for this venerable iPad app, and it adds more improvements and new [Read More ...]

New Update to Google Play Books App Removes Option to Upload PDFs

22 December, 2013 // 2 Comments

The ever enigmatic Google rolled out a new update for the Play Books Android app and it has a lot of bloggers scratching their head. The new version of the GPB app (3.1.23) reportedly doesn't have [Read More ...]

Mozilla Releases a Secure and Safer PDF Viewer for Firefox

19 February, 2013 // 2 Comments

Mozilla announced today that they've just made your web browsing experience a little safer. They've released a new plugin for Firefox which will let you view PDFs in the web browser. It works like [Read More ...]