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 и 5.1 (new!)
• Pronounsation dictionaries (new!)
• Dictionary editor (new!)
• 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

Downloads

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

CoolReader 3.X is experimental open-source multiplatform version under development (neither skinning nor TTS support).

• CoolReader2.00.66 .zip [~1700K]
• CoolReader3.00.15 .zip [~1200K]

Installation

Just unzip archieve to some folder and run cr2.exe

Contacts

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

ICQ: 39190840