FBReader

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FBReader is an eBook reader that is trying to be a universal reader program. For more information see http://www.fbreader.org/ It is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

[edit] Supported Platforms

Currently FBReader works on

  • Linux desktop.
  • Windows XP computer.
  • FreeBSD computer.
  • MacOS X (This port is available from the third-party site.)
  • 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 E680i/A780 smartphones. (This port is available from the third-party site.)
    • IRex iLiad. (This port is available from the third-party site.)
    • Hanlin V3 (see http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22084)

[edit] Supported Formats

  • Supported formats are:
    • ePUB from <idpf> (css, automatic toc, tables are not supported yet)
    • fb2 e-book format (style attributes are not supported yet).
    • HTML format (tables are not supported).
    • CHM format (tables are not supported).
    • plucker format (tables are not supported).
    • Palm DOC (aportis doc).
    • zTXT (Weasel format).
    • TCR (psion text) format.
    • RTF format (stylesheets and tables are not supported).
    • OEB format (css and tables are not supported).
    • Open Reader format (css and tables are not supported).
    • MOBI Non-DRM'ed mobipocket format (tables are not supported).
    • Plain text format.

[edit] Main Features

  • Direct reading from tar, zip, gzip and bzip2 archives. (Multiple books in one archive are supported.)
  • Automatic library building.
  • Automatic encoding detection is supported.
  • Automatically generated contents table.
  • Embedded images support.
  • Footnotes/hyperlinks support.
  • Position indicator. Position is incremented every 2048 characters. This serves as a substitute for a page number.
  • 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, French, German and Russian are included in the current version.
  • Text search.
  • Full-screen mode.
  • Screen rotation by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.
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