FBReader
E-reader application.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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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.)
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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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about FBReader, and it has gotten 195 likes
- Developed by Geometer Plus
- Proprietary and Freemium product.
- One time purchase (perpetual license)
- Average rating of 3.5
- 88 alternatives listed
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View allFBReader 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.
Easy, lightweight, multi platform and fast.
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.
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.
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.