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FBReader icon

FBReader

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E-reader application.

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FBReader screenshot 2

License model

  • Freemium • Proprietary

Application types

Country of Origin

  • RU flagRussia

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
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3.5 / 5 Avg rating (6)
217likes
5comments
106alternatives
1news article

Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  No registration required
  3.  Dark Mode
  4.  Cloud Sync
  5. calibre icon  Calibre integration
  6.  Multiple languages
  7.  OPDS Client
  8.  iPhone/iPod sync

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FBReader information

  • Developed by

    RU flagGeometer Plus

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0 + free version with limited functionality.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.5

  • Alternatives

    106 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Czech
    • French
    • German
    • Italian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Spanish
    • Ukrainian

AlternativeTo Categories

News & Books, Office & Productivity

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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about FBReader, and it has gotten 217 likes

FBReader was added to AlternativeTo by Valentin on Oct 23, 2010 and this page was last updated Feb 1, 2021. FBReader is sometimes referred to as FBReaderJ.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
StoneCrow
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May 20, 2020
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It's absolutely amazing and completely portable. Easily one of my favorites. Plus, there's a TTS add-on and a paid option, but I've seen no need for thet.

Top Negative Comment
jbbarnes
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Dec 19, 2020
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This looked like a great option since it was cross platform. Then I saw the lack of development for desktop OSes. The last Windows release was 10 years ago (in 2010) with a beta promised five years ago.

Azazel
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May 12, 2025
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Windows version is long discontinued. And for Android I found ReadEra to be more easily and better customizable, and "bookshelf" view is available in free version.

tuva-hayabi
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Oct 10, 2020
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Extremely quick, very slim and easy to use. I’m only missing an option to choose a font from those installed on my computer.
BUT: it behaves funny after a fresh install of GNU/Linux, distribution Xubuntu 20.04: there is a dash behind every word, which makes it unusable for me now.

Hoek Hoek
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Mar 20, 2018
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Easy, lightweight, multi platform and fast.

What is 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 (http://alternativeto.net/software/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.

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.)

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