Cool Reader 3

CoolReader 3.X is free open-source (GPL) multiplatform version under active development.

Supported platforms

• Windows (Qt based GUI)
• Linux (Qt based GUI)
• Android
• Embedded versions: for e-Ink based devices. Used in Jinke/LBook V3/V5/V3+/V60, Azbooka N516, Pocketbook
• Symbian port (SmartReader)

Common features, for all platforms

• epub (non-DRM), fb2, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, doc, pdb formats supported
• Pages or scroll view
• Table of contents
• Bookmarks
• Text search
• Hyphenation dictionaries
• Most complete FB2 format support: styles, tables, footnotes
• Additional fonts support (.ttf)
• Can read books from zip archives
• Automatic reformatting of .txt files (autodetect headings etc.)
• Styles can be customised in wide range using external CSS

Android specific

• Page flipping animation.
• Built-in file browser, quick recent books access
• Day and night profiles (two sets of colors, background, backlight levels)
• Brightness adjustments by flick on left edge of screen
• Background texture (stretched or tiled) or solid color
• Paperbook-like page turning animation or "sliding page" animation
• Dictionary support (ColorDict, Fora Dictionary, Aard dictionary)
• Customizable tap zone and key actions
• Place additional textures to /sdcard/.cr3/textures/ -- to be used as tiled page backgrounds
• Place additional textures to /sdcard/.cr3/backgrounds/ -- to be used as stretched page backgrounds (/cr3/ directory can also be used instead of /.cr3/, and internal SD or internal storage instead of /sdcard/)
• TTS (text-to-speech) support
• Select text using double tap (optional)

CoolReader 3 Links

• Project page on SourceForge
• Project Downloads page on SourceForge
• CoolReader3.0.51 for Win32: cr3-qt-win32-3.0.51-2.zip
• CoolReader3.0.45 for Android: cr3-0-45-07.apk
• CoolReader3.0.43 for Ubuntu Linux: cr3_3.0.43-2_i386.deb
• Forum thread on MobileRead

Cool Reader 2

CoolReader 2.X is stable version with skinning and text-to-speech support. For Win32 only. Development is frozen.

Description

Cool Reader is an e-book viewer.

Understands a number of text document formats.

Fully customizable palette, text reformatting with any font size, font antialiasing, extra smooth scrolling and a lot of other features turn reading into a pleasure.

Read Aloud function saves your eyes.

Supported platforms: Win9x/ME/NT4.0/Win2K/XP

Status: free for non-commercial usage.

Features

• Opens books from .txt, .doc, .html, .fb2 or .rtf formats with automatic codepage (cp866,cp1251,KOI-8r,latin-1,unicode,utf-8) and format recognition (headers, paragraphs, etc...)
• Supports RAR, ZIP, HA, ARJ, LHA archieves
• Shows text as continuous Scroll or as Book.
• Fully customizable colors, background images, text blending modes, and other ergonomic parameters.
• Font antialiasing using a few different methods.
• Fullscreen or windowed view mode.
• TTS (Read Aloud) using SpeechAPI 4.0 and 5.1
• Pronounsation dictionaries
• Dictionary editor
• Table of Contents
• Bookmarks
• Text search
• Mouse selection and Copy function
• Export of formatted text to HTML or RTF
• Stores history of opened books, their last positions and bookmarks.
• Extra-smooth, customizable scrolling.
• Multilingual interface

CoolReader 2 Downloads

• CoolReader2.00.66, english version: cr2-00-66-eng.zip
• CoolReader2.00.66, russian version: cr2-00-66.zip
• Textures: textures_tiger.zip, textures_gennadiy.zip
• Skins: Toons.crs, roman.crs, PixelLand.crs, Crystal.crs, BigVax.crs
• Lame encode DLL: lame_enc.zip - for saving TTS as MP3
• UNRAR DLL: unrar.zip - for RAR archives support
• All files

Installation

Just unzip archieve to some folder and run cr2.exe

Contacts

please mail your feedback to support@coolreader.org with subject CR2 or CR3

ICQ: 39190840