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Hi everbody!

I'm hoping I'm not the only one to read ebooks on my Sailfish X. I just switched to the version on Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra and had to notice, that the ebook app I was using (android FBReader) stopped working. I looks as if android apps are so sandboxed now that they can't access stuff beyond the emulated android file system. This sounds quite secure but is also bad, since now I can't read my ebooks any more.

The native Sailfish ebook-reader apps (FBReader and a Clone called Books) are unuseable because they both refuse to read epub-files. So I had to use the android stuff that now stopped working too.

I tried tricks with links from my home directory into the android_storage but of course this didn't work. That would have been too easy. The android FBReader stoutly ignores such links from outside.

So if anybody here could help me with either a functional ebook-reader-app that accepts epub files or with a trick to make the android app see the files it should see I would be very glad!

And I was already looking for hints here. The closed questions I found from 2014 don't provide answers or solutions for my problem here.

Thanks in Advance!

Hi everbody!

I'm hoping I'm not the only one to read ebooks on my Sailfish X. I just switched to the version on Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra and had to notice, that the ebook app I was using (android FBReader) stopped working. I looks as if android apps are so sandboxed now that they can't access stuff beyond the emulated android file system. This sounds quite secure but is also bad, since now I can't read my ebooks any more.

The native Sailfish ebook-reader apps (FBReader and a Clone called Books) are unuseable because they both refuse to read epub-files. So I had to use the android stuff that now stopped working too.

I tried tricks with links from my home directory into the android_storage but of course this didn't work. That would have been too easy. The android FBReader stoutly ignores such links from outside.

So if anybody here could help me with either a functional ebook-reader-app that accepts epub files or with a trick to make the android app see the files it should see I would be very glad!

And I was already looking for hints here. The closed questions I found from 2014 don't provide answers or solutions for my problem here.

Thanks in Advance!