Audiobook Reader

Good EREADER INC.

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About this app

We know the app is unstable for some people and we are working on solving these issues. App will be updated in a week or two.

Introducing the Good e-Reader Audiobook Reader that turns any eBook into an audiobook! This is the first Android app in the world that forgoes the standard text to speech engine and employs Amazon Polly, which is what Alexa is built on. It will read all of your e-Books aloud. While you are reading, the text in the eBook is highlighted in real time, so you can follow along or simply listen on your smartphone or tablet. You can side-load in your own EPUB/MOBI/PRC/FB2 books into your device and choose from over 28 different languages.

Individual audio books sold by companies like Audible, Kobo and Google are expensive; you will pay on average between $25 to $45 per title. If you like to listen to audiobooks while going to sleep or working out, it can become a very expensive habit. Good e-Reader is different, you can load in any ebook and it will be read aloud by the best voice assistant in the world.

Amazon Polly is the premier voice assistant in tech; it is what the Amazon Echo is based on. Polly sounds more natural than SIRI or Google Voice Assistant. Polly is the perfect narration tool for readers who want their books read aloud and don’t want the standard robotic voice that breaks reading immersion. Good e-Reader is the first Android app that employs Polly in this manner.

Key Features

• Turn any eBook into an audiobook
• Immersion Reading: Text is highlighted when the audiobook is playing.
• Audio Narration available in over 28 different languages and 12 male & female voices.
• Collection Management.
• Dynamic Home Screen: Keeps track of all of your ebooks.
• Built in file manager to import in your favorite Books or use Dropbox or Google drive.
• Supported eBook formats: EPUB, MOBI, PRC, FB2, PDF.
• Bright and Vibrant eBook cover art.
• Customize the way you read. Enjoy crisp, clear text in the size and style you prefer. Try Night Mode to make reading easier on your eyes before bedtime.
• Easy navigation with quick touch actions and a large visual interface.
• High quality mp3 sound.
• A better reading experience than Moon+ Reader, FBREADER, Aldiko, Cool Reader, AlReader, Nook, or Laputa.

WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
• Artemis by Andy Weir
• The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
• Timeline: A Novel by Michael Crichton

UPGRADE TO PREMIUM

Good e-Reader is a free app and your support allows us to keep on enhancing the app with new features. A one time fee of $9.99 grants you access to:

• Remove all advertisements from the home screen and Audio Player.
• Cloud Storage: Bring your library with you to as many devices as you want, including smartphones and tablets. Your reading position and library is preserved. Load once, read anywhere. Cloud Sync needs access to your Google Drive account.

FAQ

What languages do you support?

We support Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian,
Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Turkish, Welsh.

Best way to use Amazon Polly?

If you want to use the Polly system I recommend not using it as soon as you load the book, or it will read everything. Click on Chapter 1 from the table of contents or scroll down to a body of text so Polly can begin speaking properly.

So I can sideload in my EPUB or MOBI DRM-Free books and it will be read aloud?

This is a core tenant on why we spent six months developing the Audiobook Reader. We do not want to lock you into a walled garden or give you any restrictions. You can have your books read aloud or you can just read them.

What is Next?
Upgraded App in the works.

Contact: [e-mail]
Learn more about the app - https://audioreader.goodereader.com/

Ratings and reviews

Ads and bad interface would be forgivable if it worked. Not only are all the voices so robotic and difficult to listen to as they pronounce even the simplest words terribly, But they dont read half the book! every book has them read a paragraph or so then skip 2- 3 paragraphs at a time picking up again at a random spot. If you like to have your books read to you by microsoft sam cutting out large sections at random, then this is the app for you.

excellent concept, works when you freshly open the app... until the voice reaches an image in the document in which the voice will cut out and the app will either crash or do nothing and you'll have to close and reopen it to get it functioning again. this renders the app basically useless for 90% of my books since they all have images and formatting that will cause it to just hang up on the voice or make it very difficult to navigate/listen to. I wil give it a second chance if I see it updated

I'm giving 5 stars for the utilisation of Amazon Polly text to speech synthesis. The voices are very natural sounding and I absolutely love that; especially the British voice, Amy, which I personally think sounds just like a real person would when narrating a book. The only downside is that it does seem that this app is still in early development with bugs here and there, the books I import into it end up disappearing after I exit the app and I have to reimport them. But still great job!

What's new

Fixes and enhancements for more smartphones
Bug fixes for x86 and ARM devices