calibre Alternatives for Android

Google Play Books

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 ebooks for reading on your computer, Apple device, Android device, Nook, or Sony eReader in the Google ebookstore. All purchased eBooks are backed up online, and your page positions are automatically synced between devices.

• Only able to manage from the Google Play Books catalog. Cannot upload own books/documents. Does not sync with Kindle device, not able to edit metadata, &c. Guest • Apr 2018 • 11 agrees and 12 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• calibre is a ebook converter, not a store or reader Guest • 6 days ago • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Web Android iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet ... iPad

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Moon+ Reader

Innovative book reader with powerful controls & full functions: • Read thousands of ebooks for free, supports online ebook libraries • Read local books with smooth scroll and tons of innovation Support epub, pdf, mobi, chm, cbr, cbz, umd, fb2, txt, html, rar, zip or OPDS, key features: Full visual options: line space, font scale, bold, italic, shadow, justified alignment, alpha colors, fading edge etc. 10+ themes embedded, includes Day & Night mode switcher.

• Only for reading; restricted to handheld devices. madamek • May 2018 • 6 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Not management system, only reader. Guest • Jul 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium Android Android Tablet Kindle Fire

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FBReader

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 (Mobipocket eBook Reader). plain text is supported, however FBReader might not always correctly split text into paragraphs. some subsets of RTF and MS Word Doc.

• FBReader is not e-book management system, just a reader. Guest • Feb 2016 • 33 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• FBReader only reads, does not organize or convert formats Guest • Dec 2016 • 19 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It is an e-book reader. It does mot manage libraries or convert formats. Guest • Dec 2016 • 16 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Different category of product - FBReader is an ebook reader, Calibre is an ebook library manager. Guest • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Calibre is about organization, library management, and conversion between different formats for just about any device. The fact that it happens to have a reader is almost inconsequential, thus recomending a piece of software that only reads is very unhelpful. Guest • Jun 2018 Disagree   Agree
• It's not an e-book editor or manager. Guest • Oct 2016 Disagree   Agree
• The beta for Windows will be available in 2015. We're talking end 2018 now. Furthermore it is a reader only. Calibre is a book management system. Guest • Sep 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• FBReader is just an eBook reader. Not an organizer Guest • Mar 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• We can directly open book file on FBReader while need to add the book to library on Calibre. Guest • Jun 2016 • 2 agrees and 8 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... S60 Blackberry Android Tablet BSD iPad

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Aldiko

Aldiko is an e-book reader application for the Android operating system. It supports the EPUB industry standard format for digital publications and incorporates facilities for browsing online catalogs on thousands of books (including thousands of free public domain work) and downloading them directly into the users personal library. The application features a bookshelf-like user interface that lets user navigate their collection of eBooks.

• I use both....calibre to manage my college, aldiko to connect to it and read books on my tablets. Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Calibre manages and converts a collection. It's not just a reader. Guest • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium Android Android Tablet

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Document Viewer

A fork of the last GPL version of EBookDroid. Supports the following formats: PDF DjVu XPS (OpenXPS) Comic Books (cbz) (NO support for cbr (rar compressed)) FictionBook (fb2, fb2.zip) Collaboration with electronic publication sites and access to online ebook catalogs is allowed by the supported OPDS protocol.

Free Open Source Android Android Tablet F-Droid

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Cool Reader

Cool Reader is fast and small cross-platform XML/CSS based eBook reader for desktops and handheld devices. Understands a number of text document formats, suppurt OPDS (in new ui-opengl version). Fully customizable palette, text reformatting with any font size, font antialiasing, extra smooth scrolling and a lot of other features turn reading into a pleasure. Read Aloud function saves your eyes.

• Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last versions, released in July 2015, can be still downloaded from SourceForge and Google Play Store.

• Not management system, only reader. Guest • Jul 2017 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Windows Linux Android Android Tablet

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Amazon Kindle

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 and new releases. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all of your devices, so you can pick up right where you left off no matter what device you are reading on.

• Calibre is a book manager. It manages books collection and books metadata. It's like a librarian. Amazon Kindle is a book reader with a basic book management (it manages the titles of the books one bought) . Guest • Sep 2016 • 26 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Calibre is a book manager and amazon kindle is an ebook reader software, it doesn't manage and convert the books on the other hand calibre let you manage, convert, edit and view the books. Guest • Apr 2017 • 11 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• kindle app is a drm viewer Calibre is an organiser with viewer conversion and other open features Guest • Oct 2017 • 7 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Aamazon kindle is far better than calibre, but for ebook management app (desktop), then amazon kindle is not an alternative.... not at all. Guest • May 2017 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Ereader that can only display books purchased from Amazon. garrettc • Mar 2018 Disagree   Agree
• Amazon Kindle is a Kindle-only reading application Guest • 2 days ago Disagree   Agree

Free Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... Blackberry Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad

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Adobe Digital Editions

One eBook reader for all your Adobe DRM protected books across your iPad, Mac or PC. Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) is free-to-download and use, and completely ad-free. Use it to read EPUB and PDF books, both online and offline. Borrow ebooks from many public libraries for use with ADE.

Free Mac Windows Android

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BookFusion

A global eBook platform focused on openness that provides e-book library management for users to read and share their e-books across all devices; while also allowing schools, corporate and other organizations to easily create and deploy their own digital library to provide secure access to their content across all devices.

Free Web Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

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PocketBook Reader

Read, search, make notes & highlights in PDF (Adobe DRM), EPUB (Adobe DRM), DjVu, TXT, FB2, FB2.zip book formats. Enjoy a unique, fast and user-friendly interface that was designed to provide the most convenient set of options for you to fully enjoy reading a book. PocketBook reader allows you to customize your reading experience by adjusting text size, layouts, colors and many other options.

Free Android Android Tablet

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eReader Prestigio

eReader Prestigio: Book Reader is a multi lingual, multi format text and audio books reading app. Intuitive interface in over 25 languages and an in app store library with over 50,000 text (for children and adults) books and Text-To-Speech (read along) functionality. Prestigio ebooks reader is cool - book and text reading never been simpler - you can read text files in multiple formats including epub, html, fb2, fb2.

Free Android

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AlReader

AlReader 2 is an eBook Reader for Windows Mobile and Pocket PC products as well as Windows This is a free program. # Support profiles «Day» / «Night» (in the profile includes settings of text font: size, Bold, smoothing, color: the background, text, and the status bar) - up to 8 profiles # Read HTML, FB2, EPUB - support text styles, images, referrals, content. # Reading CHM - experimental support.

Free Windows Windows Mobile Android

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NOOK

Download NOOK, and get access to over a million eBooks, newspapers, magazines- all just a touch away. Plus, free samples of ebooks & thousands of free titles. NOOK offers unique, unbeatable features, including exclusive LendMe™ technology that lets you share eBooks with friends, and a safe and secure eBooks Lifetime Library™ that keeps your eBooks accessible anytime, anywhere no matter what device you own.

Free Mac Windows Android iPhone Blackberry ... Windows RT Android Tablet iPad

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Book Reader

FLOSS book reader with a simple UI. Based on FBReader. Supported formats: fb2, html, txt, epub, mobi, rtf, doc, pdf, djvu. Available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.bookreader/

Free Open Source Android

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Bluefire

Bluefire Reader is your go-to reading application for ePub and PDF content, including ebooks from most online book stores and leading libraries around the world. Bluefire Reader includes support for eBooks protected by Adobe Content Server.

Free Android iPhone iPad

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ReadEra

ReadEra - reading books and viewing documents. The app is completely free and contains no ads. Open and read book files in EPUB, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, DJVU, FB2, MOBI and CHM formats. Supports chapters, bookmarks, page style. Automatically saves the current reading position. Automatic detection and display of the list of all supported documents on your device.

Free Android

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Librera Reader

With its intuitive, yet powerful, interface, Librera makes ebook reading a veritable pleasure. It even features a unique auto-scrolling, hands-free Musician's mode. Two versions are available for downloading: Free version with ads, and PRO without.

Freemium Open Source Android Android Tablet

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ACBF Viewer

ACBF Viewer is a viewer application capable of reading ACBF, CBZ/CBR and ACV comic book file formats. It is written in Python programming language. Currently there are versions for Linux, Windows and Android (ACBF Viewer for Android). It is distributed under GNU GPL version 3.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Android Android Tablet

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Mantano

Fast and feature-packed ebook reader to get the most of your readings everywhere. User friendly advanced ebook reader for PDF and EPUB for leisure readers and students.

Freemium $ $ $ Android iPhone

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Nomad Reader

Nomad Reader is small and fancy application designed for convenient epub and fb2 books reading. The program runs on Android 1.5-3.1, supports images, styles, internal and external fonts and many other features. To simplify book selection reader is integrated with bookshelf with Cover Flow support. Application is still in beta stage and updated frequently.

Free Personal Android Android Tablet

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iReader

iReader is a offline e-book reader for Android. It also reads PIM data. iReader opens fast, searches fast, and can handle large files. Supports TXT, CHM, PDB(EReader, Mobipocket), UMD(popular Chinese ebook format), HTML and Image files.

Freemium Android

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Gitden Reader

GitdenReader is eBook Reader with intuitive user interface. It supports not only EPUB 2 spec standard but also EPUB 3. 1. Supports EPUB 3.0 standard - Reflowable book and fixed layout book - Media Overlay not only in fixed layout book but also in reflowable book - Javascript and CSS3 support - MathML(math equation) and SVG embedded in epub file properly - 99% of MathML 3.0 with embedded MathJax library - RTL (Right To Left) vertical writing (EPUB3.

Free Android iPhone iPad

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Gyan Reader

Gyan Reader is an eBook Reader that supports epub 3 format and is also backward compatible. It is an advanced epub3 rendering engine for Android platform. Please Note * Ensure you have a free internal storage capacity of minimum 300mb * If you cannot open ePub file with our Reader for any reason, please contact us for support. * The first ePub3 Reader for Android platform that supports Mathml, Audio, Video, SVG, webGL animation and 3d.

Free Personal Android Android Tablet

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ZXReader

ZXReader is an e-book reader for Symbian s60 3rd or 5th edition mobile phones. With ZXReader you can customize almost everything about the eBook display: from changing the fonts and colors to things like screen margins and the location of the info bar.

Free Personal Android S60

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Bookoid

Bookoid helps you select from a vast collection of books and easily manage your personal books library. Easily find the the book you want and also explore from a range of book listings. Build your library as you discover great books on the app.

Free Android

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