Book Bazaar
From MobileRead
Book Bazaar is a full feature eBook Reader app for Windows 8.
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[edit] Description
From the app site.
- Thousands of free books in EPUB, MOBI, FB2, PDF, TXT formats at your fingertips.
- Thousands of free books from multiple sources of open publications, such as Guttenberg, Flibusta, FeedBooks, FreeBooks, ManyBooks, etc. Customizable OPDS catalog browser available to download books. Can import books from local files and by direct web URLs.
- Great reading experience with quality fonts from a customizable font list, font size and font family selection, animated page turning, quick page formatting for different orientations. Margins and line spacing settings. Night reading mode. Convenient page navigation using table of contents, reading progress bar, hyperlinks, bookmarks, page turning history.
- Book library organizer allows with different ways of sorting and grouping (by authors, genres, titles, sizes, publishing time, download time). Most recently read books are easily available using "I am reading" list.
- Allows for the reader to set bookmarks, highlight pieces of text with different colors and add notes. Can copy and share individual highlights and quotes as well as the whole collection of marks from a book.
- Uses Windows8 contracts for sharing book links between apps such as Mail or Quick Note - into or out of your library.
- Allows for the reader to set bookmarks, highlight pieces of text with different colors and add notes. Can copy and share individual highlights and quotes as well as the whole collection of marks from a book.
- Uses Windows8 contracts for sharing book links between apps such as Mail or Quick Note - into or out of your library.
[edit] Features
- Recognizes books in EPUB, MOBI, FB2, PDF, TXT formats
- Download books from internet links (URLs)
- Download books from web-page in Microsoft Edge via "Share"-button
- Download books from OPDS catalogs (has a big list of built-in catalogs and allows using your own links to catalogs)
- Import books from files on local machine
- Supports bookmarks, highlights and notes
- Speaking books in EPUB, MOBI, FB2, PDF, TXT formats
- Integrated with Mail, IE, Microsoft Edge and note taking apps via "share charm"
- Nice page turning experiences (sliding, or 3d)
- High performance with big book formatting, rotating and resizing
- Allows to choose font family and font size
- Supports Table Of Contents TOC
- Quick page preview using Reading Progress bar, with ability to jump to any page.
- Color themes for daylight and night reading
- Page history storing jumps within a book via table of contents or hyperlinks
- Rich book content format using all features of HTML5 (tables, images, SVG, CSS)
- Custom fonts - user can define her own font palette
- Margins and line spacing can be adjusted
- OPDS catalog list customization
[edit] Basic operation
- Reading a book is pretty obvious, click the right to page forward and click the left to page back. Arrow keys and PgUp, PgDn also work as do your fingers on a touch screen.
- To reach the menu, right click the mouse or swipe up from the bottom. Select what you want. TOC, adjust font, go to the libray, zoom and more.
