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I've been using FbReader as my phone ebook reader for over a decade. It was versatile, could open multiple ebook formats (epub, mobi, doc, docx, html, fb2, even pdf!), and was very lightweight. And its fb2 format tended to have a smaller file size than epub.

It could also synchronize across devices. Open an ebook on a phone, continue reading it on a tablet. Puts it on par with big names like Google Play Books. There was nothing I didn't like about it.

But things started going wrong the past few years. It seems FBReader was trying to make it work with Google Drive as its cloud storage or something. On my end, FBreader started freezing when opening files. Even its own fb2 files were giving trouble. They rolled back some of the features and things seemed well again, but now it's going wrong again.

Maybe it's time to move on to another ebook reader. Lithium works okay, even with the epub files that froze on FbReader. I might even move back to Aldiko.

I also have a library of paid books on Google Play Books. But I'm not a fan of the limited options for display and lighting.

I'm not sure if I can synch ebooks using Lithium. Maybe I shouldn't have held on to FbReader for so long. Problem is, quite a good number of books I have is in the fb2 format. FbReader really was a lovely system when it worked. I don't think the other readers can read those. What shall I do?

Just finished The Two Towers. Decided to start on Stephen Fry's Making History (and maybe also Baxter's Time before finishing up with my annual reread of Tolkien. Sometimes well-trodden ground can get a little too well-trodden.