Fbreader

Jul 20, 2023

Powerful e-book reader

FBReader is a book reader. Main features

  • Supported formats fb2, HTML, CHM, plucker, Palmdoc, zTxt, TCR, RTF, OEB, OpenReader, mobipocket, plain text.
  • Direct reading from tar, zip, gzip and bzip2 archives.
  • Supported encodings utf-8, us-ascii, windows-1251, windows-1252, koi8-r, ibm866, iso-8859-*, Big5, GBK.
  • Automatically generated contents table.
  • Embedded images support.
  • Footnotes/hyperlinks support.
  • Position indicator.
  • 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. 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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