More Book Types

eLibrary Manager has primarily been designed to manage ePub books, with a built-in ePub reader for reading those books. With version 2.0.0, however, you can use eLibrary Manager to manage other eBook types as well, such as PDF books as an example. With non-ePub books loaded in your library, you can take full advantage of all the library management capability to view and organize book lists, and maintain book information.

Important note: Please be aware, however, that you will need to have external reader applications installed on your device to read non-ePub books. The built-in ePub Reader handles only ePub books, and the application does not include readers for other book types.

Add Book Types

Enable management of book types other than ePub from the eLibrary Settings view. In the "More Book Types" section, you can add file extensions appropriate for any book type you would like to manage. Adding such file extensions in this view will allow the scan operation to find and load these book files, in addition to ePub books. The "More Book Types" dialog presents you with some predefined book type file extension values for convenience, but you can add other file extensions that do not appear in the dialog as well through the "Add new." entry field.

MIME Types

External reader applications typically require launch requests (called Intents in Android) to identify a MIME type for books files, from which the application determines if it can handle books of that type. eLibrary Manager defines the following MIME types in its default configuration:

azw=application/vnd.amazon.ebook azw1=application/x-topaz-ebook azw3=application/x-mobipocket-ebook cbr=application/x-cbr cbz=application/x-cbz doc=application/msword docx=application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document epub=application/epub+zip fb2=text/xml htm=text/html html=text/html lit=application/x-ms-reader lrf=application/x-sony-bbeb mobi=application/x-mobipocket-ebook pdb=application/vnd.palm pdf=application/pdf ppt=application/vnd.ms-powerpoint pptx=application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation prc=application/x-mobipocket-ebook rtf=application/rtf tpz=application/x-topaz-ebook txt=text/plain xls=application/vnd.ms-excel xlsx=application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

Not all applications recognize the same MIME types for the book files they can handle, however. To accommodate this unfortunate situation, you can customize the MIME types for specific book file extensions, overriding the default values or adding new ones for file types that are not defined by default. To accomplish this, create a file with the following path and file name on your device SD card, if you are using the full version of eLibrary Manager:

/Android/data/kpw.ebook/files/mimetype/mimetype.txt

Add entries in that file using the same format that appears above in the default configuration. That is, each entry should have format

<file_extension>=<mime_type>