O’Reilly Android app books let you use memory card to extract ePub files
Twenty-eight O’Reilly Media books are available as Android apps via Aldiko tech, and here’s a really cool twist that O’Reilly’s Andrew Savikas called to my attention just now.
“Our Android Apps (built using the technology running the Aldiko Reader) include an option to export the EPUB to the device SD Card.”
Great! Books done as apps will appear as icons and can be quickly called up on your Android desktop—helpful in situations like a dictionary’s. But there are negatives, too, such as when you want to use the books on other devices with minimal fuss. Extraction will take care of that.
Here’s hoping that the same winkle will become standard with Stanza tech back in the iPhone/iPod world! It would also be terrific for the books to end up in the regular e-reader library.
Meanwhile I’ve tried to pin down Andrew about the possibility of ePub in those books that O’Reilly will distribute through Microsoft. He says he can’t be talkative now. But let’s all think good thoughts.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
As I pointed out in my review of the iPhone Missing Manual, you can already dive into the app’s zip file on your PC or Mac and extract it that way. I think that’s as close as we’re going to get for Apple’s closed system.