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  1. calibre icon
     1523 likes

    Free e-book manager offering library management, multi-format conversion, syncing to devices, news download as e-books, built-in viewer, editor, and privacy.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Homebrew
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    123 alternatives
    4.3
    Very Good49 reviews
  2. Feedly icon
     1879 likes

    Organize and read content from RSS feeds into a magazine-like experience, simple sharing options, and seamless access across all devices.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Kindle Fire
    • Mozilla Firefox
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    333 alternatives
    3.4
    Fair25 reviews
  3. Zotero icon
     489 likes

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, share research and cite your research sources directly in your favourite word processor, with 300 MB free online storage.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Microsoft Word
    • Google Docs
    • LibreOffice
    • Mozilla Firefox
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    87 alternatives
    4.3
    Very Good23 reviews
  4. Internet Archive icon
     210 likes

    The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    +5
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    40 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good16 reviews
  5. Inoreader icon
     1460 likes

    Aggregate RSS, newsletters, and social feeds with advanced filtering, real-time cross-device syncing, customizable reading views, and ad-free experience.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Kindle Fire
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
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    301 alternatives
    3.5
    Good31 reviews
  6. FreshRSS icon
     187 likes

    FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted RSS aggregator. It is quite lightweight, fast (it can manage +100k articles without complaining) and powerful (e.g. shortcuts, filters, responsive design, multi-views, multi-themes, multi-users, statistics, provides a Google Reader API, etc.)

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    Configuration page
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    139 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent15 reviews
  7. Feeder is a fully free/libre feed reader. It supports all common feed formats, including JSONFeed. It doesn't track you. It doesn't require any setup. It doesn't even need you to create an account!

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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    279 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent14 reviews
  8. Readest icon
     39 likes

    Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience.

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    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Android Tablet
    Annotation
    Translation
    Wikipedia
    +2
    Dark Mode
    17 alternatives
    4.9
    Excellent8 reviews
  9. KOReader icon
     80 likes

    An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Linux and Android devices.

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    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
    • AppImageHub
    • Kobo Books
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
    • Android Tablet
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    78 alternatives
  10. Librera Reader icon
     80 likes

    Librera Reader is a highly customizable and feature-rich application for reading books in PDF, EPUB, MOBI, DjVu, FB2, TXT, RTF, AZW, AZW3, HTML, CBZ, CBR formats on Android devices.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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    +7
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    71 alternatives
    4.9
    Excellent18 reviews
  11. Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    64 alternatives
  12. BookWyrm icon
     47 likes

    BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Main instance page
    Book entry
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    43 alternatives
  13. Feedbro icon
     101 likes

    Fast & free RSS feed reader as a browser extension for Chrome, Vivaldi, Edge, Brave and Firefox for reading blogs, news or any RSS, Atom or RDF based feed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    Feedbro has built-in integrations to various social media sites - even the ones that don't provide RSS natively like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
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    Feedbro includes a powerful rule engine for automatic processing, highlighting etc.
    +6
    Dark mode provided built-in
    250 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent12 reviews
  14. Open Library icon
     67 likes

    Editable online catalog aiming to archive every published book, offering user-contributed entries, metadata, digital lending, and free access to over one million Public Domain titles.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    Single book view for 1984
    Single book view for Frankenstein showing it with rating and listed as "already read"
    Single book full page view for Frankenstein
    +1
    User reading log page
    40 alternatives