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We've compiled a list of 72 free and paid alternatives to FBReader. The primary competitors include Sumatra PDF, calibre. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between FBReader and Okular, Amazon Kindle, STDU Viewer. Also you can look at other similar options here: News and Books Solutions.


Sumatra PDF
Free Open Source

Sumatra PDF is a slim PDF/DjVu/EPUB/XPS/CHM/CBR/CBZ/MOBI viewer for Windows.

Okular
Free Open Source

Okular is a universal document viewer developed by KDE.

Amazon Kindle software lets you read ebooks on your Kindle, iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and...

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books.

Aldiko is an e-book reader application for the Android operating system.

Cool Reader
Free Open Source

Fast and small cross-platform eBook reader for desktops and handheld devices

E-reader application.

FBReader Platforms

tick-square iPad
tick-square Mac
tick-square Android
tick-square iPhone

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FBReader Overview

FBReader is an e-book reader for various platforms.

Features:

Supported e-book formats are:
ePub, an international e-publishing standard.
fb2, a Russian e-books standard de facto.
Non-DRM'd version of Mobipocket, a popular commercial e-book format (Small Mobipocket eBook Reader iconMobipocket eBook Reader).
plain text is supported, however FBReader might not always correctly split text into paragraphs.
some subsets of RTF and MS Word Doc.

Direct reading from tar, zip, gzip and bzip2 archives. (Multiple books in one archive are supported.)
Automatic library building.
Automatic language and character encoding detection is supported.
Automatically generated contents table.
Embedded images support.
Footnotes/hyperlinks support.
Position indicator.
Keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all opened books between runs.
List of last opened books.
Automatic hyphenations. Liang's algorithm is used. The same algorithm is used in TeX, and TeX hyphenation patterns are used in FBReader. Patterns for Czech, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian are included in the current version.
Text search.
Full-screen mode.
Screen rotation by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.

Currently FBReader works on

Linux desktop.
Windows XP/Vista computer.
MacOS X (port of Stanislav Gobunov).
FreeBSD computer.
Various linux-based mobile devices:
Sharp Zaurus with Qtopia-based ROMs, pdaXrom or OpenZaurus ROM.
Archos PMA430.
Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad 0.9.0/Opie ROM.
Nokia 770/N800/N810 Internet Tablets (maemo).
PepperPad 3 handheld web computer.
Motorola A1200 smartphone.
Motorola E680i/A780 smartphones. (This port is available from the third-party site.)
IRex iLiad. (This port is available from the third-party site.)

FBReader Features

tick-square Sync between devices
tick-square Night mode/Dark Theme
tick-square Multiple languages

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FBReader Tags

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