FBReader-Free E-Book Reader

noreply@blogger.com (gayan) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:56:00 +0000

From Geometer Plus :

FBReader is an e-book reader. FBReader supports several free e-book formats: html, chm, plucker, palmdoc, oeb, rtf, and fb2. It also supports direct reading from tar, zip, gzip, and bzip2 archives. FBReader keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all opened books between runs. Other features are automatic language and encoding detection, automatic hyphenations, full-screen mode, and screen rotation.

Installer size: 5.6 MB

Download from CNet

OS: Windows

Features:

Clean simple interface
Manage e-books by adding them to the FBReader library.
Browse and download e-books from services such as Feedbooks, ManyBooks and Smashwords, using a single interface (There are two more services for Russian and Chinese e-book downloads)
Easy navigation. The reader keeps track of the page which was last read on a particular book and displays it when the e-book is re-opened.

The Bad:
The applications contains several bugs which causes it to occasionally crash.

More Screen Shots:

The main window

The online catalog window

Browsing the online catalog of ManyBooks

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FBReader-Free E-Book Reader