Among many other highlights, the Samsung Galaxy S2 has one of the largest screens with the best color quality of the entire fleet of smart phones. Precisely size matters, and a lot, when we want to exploit one of the strengths of this technology: that of using the terminal as an electronic book reader.
It is true that the Samsung Galaxy S2, like so many other phones in its segment, are complementary platforms if we want to read electronic books, being always more interesting to use a device that works with electronic ink. The reason is very simple: panels that emit light can become eye strain on long readings. However, for those moments when we go on the bus, we wait in the doctor's office, or when we make time while that impultual friend arrives, having the option of flipping through a few pages on the screen of the Samsung Galaxy S2 is very interesting.
Therefore, we want to offer you some recommendations in case you are a bit fishy in this matter. The Samsung Galaxy S2 itself carries a dedicated reader through the Readers Hub application. With this, you can access a bibliographic collection that distinguishes three sections: press, books and magazines. In total, there are references in 22 languages, including thousands of magazine and newspaper headlines around the world, as well as more than 2.2 million books (accessible through the Kobo platform), many of which are completely free.
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Readers Hub also offers customizable display options, something that we will see in other applications working in a similar way. Thus, we could select the amount of light that the screen emits (a very attractive possibility, as we have mentioned before, in case we know that we are going to spend a good day reading the application), in addition to the size of the font. We can also mark one or more pages, either to control which part of the book we go to or because we want to introduce a reference.
The Kindle application behaves in a similar way. We are talking about Amazon's multiplatform system, a utility that not only allows us to read books, but also gives direct access to the best-known online bookstore in cyberspace. It is true that the vast majority of books that we see on Kindle are in English, so if you don't have problems with the language of Shakespeare, you may find this application very attractive; otherwise, your options will be more limited.
Something that is of great interest in the Kindle application (both in the Samsung Galaxy S2 and in the rest of compatible mobiles and tablets), is the option to identify the reading with the user, not with the device. In other words, if you are the owner of several terminals compatible with the application (another Android mobile, or perhaps an iPhone or iPad, or precisely the Kindle reader of the American firm), every time you abandon reading on a specific page, When you open the e-book again from another terminal, the last sheet where you left off will appearregardless of whether you placed a bookmark or not. In addition, the Kindle application can have a built-in dictionary to tell you the meaning of words or expressions that you do not understand. Of course: for now this option is only available in English.
If you do not want to complicate with foreign languages and prefer to read books written in some of the official languages of our country, the solution is epubgratis.es. It is not an application, but rather a website where we will access an important catalog of free works. There is something for all tastes: essays, novels, manuals… and everything in ePub format. We will have to download the book and load it into a reader application (for example, the Readers Hub itself).
Another web option for reading e-books on the Samsung Galaxy S2 is to go to 24symbols.com. At the moment, this system does not have a dedicated application for Android, but the online reader works very well. This service has come to be called the Spotify of books , for including a very wide option of free access (as was the popular streaming music service in another era), and with a more complete one for premium clients (for prices of between 10 and 60 euros, depending on the subscription period, which removes ads and allowsdownload the works to read them offline).
