I´m an academic and I travel a lot, therefore I was hunting for a sustainable solution to carry (DRM free) EPUBs and PDFs with me which I can also annotate on different devices. This thread comes pretty close to what I´m looking for, so I hope it´s ok if I post my questions and thoughts here. I did quite some research and experimented with various readers for Windows (Desktop) and Android but so far without success. I´m new to the world of e-reading and I must admit that so far I´ve been pretty frustrated. I had already opened the file in Adobe and when I went back to in (using the recent apps button), it had updated without needing to re-open the file. I just tested it and the favorited file on Android did not update to have the changes made on my Computer until navigating to the folder in the Dropbox App. I would expect favoriting the file to make sure computer annotations are synced to the android. Either way, the changes are synced from android to the servers and then to my computer. I tried both favoriting a file, and not favoriting it. Make annotations, and then when you close out, they sync. ~/android/data//files/random-#s-ABCs/scratch/ Foxit has an Android App that works similar to Adobe's, I chose Adobe's because it had a smaller footprint at the time and now I am familiar with it's interface.Īlternatively, you can navigate to the files Dropbox downloads using your android file navigator, where your dropbox root folder is here: On the computer, I use the Windows version of Foxit PDF on Linux/Windows (Adobe Pro would work also). I then make annotations on my android device using the Adobe Reader App and when I close out the changes are saved. When you open the file from Dropbox, it uses their native reader but you can get a different one by selecting the menu > Open with. I navigate to the file using the Dropbox app, select the file to have it download it onto my android device. I just tested a few different ways and every one worked. I am not sure when they starting making 2-way sync possible but I have used it for a few months now. I use Dropbox's native app on android to do what you are describing.
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