If you receive a file in EPUB format on your mobile phone or tablet, sent as an attachment by email, WhatsApp or another communication application, then you may be wondering what to do? An EPUB is a book in electronic format, which can contain a novel, an essay, an encyclopedia, a legislative norm or any other text, accompanied or not by images or even audio or video.
They are files, usually small in size, around 1 Mb. As they occupy so little it is very easy to share them through portable media. There are several actions involved in the reading experience with EPUB extension files
Ideally, you should have one or more reading applications installed, in
addition to Google Play Books, which usually comes by default on Android
devices. This application uploads the EPUB file to the Cloud in Google
Drive of our account, in order to be able to read it on any of our devices
using the reading application itself, in the 'My Collection' section.
However, it has an important limitation: it allows you to upload books and
also delete them, but not download them, so it is not possible, once
uploaded, to store them elsewhere or share them.
There are many reading applications in the official Android or iOS stores,
where there are both free and paid. For Android we can recommend:
In Apple's iOS the most widespread EPUB reader is iBooks.
EPUB Quick Info | |
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Electronic Publication | |
MIME Type | |
application/xhtml+xml application/epub+zip | |
Opens with | |
Microsoft Edge | |
Calibre | |
EPUBReader | |
Apple Books |