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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Haiku
The last version is from August 2021.
Cool Reader News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
AntumDeluge added Cool Reader as alternative to Thorium Reader
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Danilo_Venom added Cool Reader as alternative to PDF4QT- POX added Cool Reader as alternative to GoRead, epr and epy
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What is 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.
Features:
- Read electronic books in FB2, TXT, RTF, DOC, TCR, HTML, EPUB, CHM, PDB, MOBI formats
- Stylesheet support
- A lot of customizations for better reading performance
Android version features:
- selection of the file to open the file via the built browser or from an external file manager
- support online catalogs of books (OPDS)
- a list of recently opened files
- change the font to use custom fonts, font size, fat content, inversion
- font smoothing
- support for external files CSS (Cool reader WiKi CSS)
- flipping book joystick / touch screen / volume keys
- jump to a page by number and percentage
- bookmarks
- contents of a book
- search Text
- page turning animation (as in paper book or shift)
- book covers in the list of books
- Rotate the image sensor
- separate menu button menu in the list of books
- texture background page
- custom actions on tap-zones
- configurable action buttons
- the ability to lock the touch screen and trackball
- autorepeat paging
- Support for installation on SD 2.2
- following a link - long press, return - through the menu or on the designated button or tap zone action
- Entering text selection - through the menu (you can also assign a button or tap-zone)
- Optional text selection - double-tapa
- highlighted text is copied to the clipboard
- search for words in a dictionary - Fora Dictionary or ColorDict
- Adjusting the brightness slide along the left edge of the screen
- Sorting books in the browser files by name, author, title, file
Win32, Linux, Android. Ported on some eInk based devices-
Cool Reader information
Developed by
Vadim Lopatin Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Alternatives
93 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
it's not discontinued! Last Update: 2017-03-06
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It is not discontinued: there is a sign of life as 2018 A.D. There is a new release, but only APK version.
Best app for Android to read .txt files!
I agree, this software is not perfect, but it's one of the best readers out there for EPUB/MOBI filetypes. It's a bit slow in opening files, resizing windows, etc. but once it does that, browsing through pages is a breeze. Add to that the customizability of the look for the fonts that works so beautifully.
Suggestion: The table of contents doesn't work/appear. The makers need to have their own website instead of just relying on sourceforge.
maybe you used a cr from new ui interface - sometimes it retarding in the new ui, you can try to run a cr3 or old coolreader2 desctop version - they works fine
the best program for readin on my laptop, not perfect but the best...
Seems to be the one and only program suited for reading fb2 books in the proper way.