News & Books

Google Reader is a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. Have trouble keeping up with the sites you visit? Read them in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up with your fa ...

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application made by users, for users. Many languages, designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e., a single entry in your library that may correspond ...

Feedly is a browser addon and mobile app that weaves the content from the RSS feeds of your favorite websites into a fun magazine-like experience and provides seamless integration with social networks.Feedly requires a G ...

Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, and RSS.

deviantART was created to entertain, inspire, and empower the artist in all of us. Founded in August 2000, deviantART is the largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts with over 13 million registered m ...

Okular is a universal document viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4 with support for advanced document features, such as annotations, forms, and embedded files. Okular combines the excellent functionalities of KPDF with the ve ...

NewsBlur is a new RSS feed reader with intelligence. It shows you the original site and allows you to read stories directly off the site while keeping track of what you read. It also has AI to filter and highlight storie ...

SABnzbd is a free/open-source cross-platform binary newsreader written in Python.It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically, thanks to its friendly web-based user interface and advanced built-in po ...

Reeder is a RSS feed reader connected to Google Reader, that has everything a news reader should have. Reeder caches articles and images from your feed, so that you can read without a WiFi or 3G connection. It integrates ...

Amazon Kindle software lets you read ebooks on your Kindle, iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and Android-based device. You can discover and read over 630,000 books in the Kindle Store, including the latest bestsellers ...

Google Play Books lets you search, preview, and buy millions of books using Google Book Search. Books in the public domain and certain copyrighted books can be read and downloaded in their entirety for free. You can buy ...

Comix is an image viewer specifically designed to handle comic books. It reads ZIP, RAR and tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed), as well as plain image files. It has a simple and user-friendly GUI using PyGTK.

Catalog your books, movies, music, software, toys, tools, electronics, & video games in a nice interface. Import all your stuff onto your digital shelves using your Mac’s iSight webcam, our wireless barcode scanner, ...

FeedDemon is a RSS Reader for Windows. It comes in two flavors: FeedDemon Pro is paid software; FeedDemon Lite is freely available but offers limited features and is ad-supported.A comparison of Pro vs Lite can be seen h ...

Flipboard is a fast, beautiful way to flip through the news, photos and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook and Twitter. See your social media in a magazine layout that is easy to scan and fun to read. Share art ...

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. L ...

Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or "aggregators." RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant ...

GCstar is a free open source application for managing your collections. Detailed information on each item can be automatically retrieved from the internet and you can store additional data, such as the location or who yo ...

FBReader is an e-book reader for various platforms. Currently FBReader works on Linux desktop. Windows XP/Vista computer. MacOS X (port of Stanislav Gobunov). FreeBSD computer. Various linux-based mobile d ...

CDisplay is a free sequential image viewer utility for Windows used to view images one at a time in the style of a comic book. CDisplay was written to easily view JPEG, PNG and static GIF format images sequentially. The ...

Reddit is a social news site allowing users to submit articles, vote on them, and engage in discussions. Like other social news websites, Reddit is divided into categories. In addition to being able to vote for and again ...

Netvibes is a multi-lingual Ajax-based personalized start page or personal web portal much like Pageflakes, My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Microsoft Live. It is organized into tabs, with each tab containing user-defined modules ...

News360 is a next-generation news reader that gathers news from more than 10,000 different online sources, and presents them in an innovative visual fashion, aggregating different articles & media, and letting you se ...

Pulse is an elegant news reading application for iPhone, iPad and Android. It takes the latest content from your favorite websites and transforms it into a colorful and interactive mosaic. Tap on any article, and you wil ...

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. It includes the iBookstore, where you can download both the latest best-selling books, and your favorite classics. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a ...