FBReader is an

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for

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, Microsoft Windows, Android, and other platforms. It was originally written for the

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and currently runs on many other

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s, like the Nokia Internet Tablets, as well as desktop computers. A preview of FBReaderJ (the

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port) for Google Android was released on April 13, 2008. Supported formats include EPUB,

FictionBook FictionBook is an open XML-based e-book format which originated and gained popularity in Russia. FictionBook files have the filename extension. Some readers also support ZIP-compressed FictionBook files ( or ) The FictionBook format does not ...

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, plucker, PalmDoc, zTxt, TCR, CHM, RTF, OEB,

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without

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, and plain-text. FBReaderWindow

It was formerly

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under the

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, but since 2015 (v2.7) is proprietary software.

History

Nikolay Pultsin wrote the first FBReader; the tool was released for the

in January 2005, a

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port was added in December 2005 for the

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. FBReader has since had binary packages released for many mobile-device platforms and for most major personal computer operating systems. The FBReader name with the FB prefix comes from

, an e-book format popular in Russia, the country of FBReader's author. The original FBReader was written in C++; however, in 2007 a fork called FBReaderJ was created, which was written in Java. As the Android platform became available in the following years, this fork became the codebase for the Android software application, while the C++ codebase remained in use for other platforms. In 2015 the software for all platforms became closed-source: the old open-source code hasn't been updated since. The Android app was split into Free and Premium versions, both closed-source, with the Premium version adding integrated support for PDF and for

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Components

For easy

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compiling, FBReader uses zlibrary, a cross-platform interface library. It allows recompiling for many platforms while disregarding the GUI-toolkit used.

Features

* support Multiple book

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, ZIP,

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and BZIP2 archives. * encoding detection * generates contents table. * Embedded images * hyperlinks * Position indicator (substitutes for page number). * library building * Most Recent Book * last read positions for all previously opened books * List of last opened books. * Automatic hyphenations * Text search. * Full-screen mode. * Screen rotation by 90, 180 and 270 degrees. * Text-to-speech **To activate text to speech on the Android platform, install a TTS plugin

File format support

FBReader supports the following file formats: * EPUB : all the main features except the tables. CSS support is not complete. * EPUB3 : does not support most of ePub 3 specific features * Mobipocket : opens non-encrypted *.mobi files. DRM-protected files are not supported. * FB 2.0 : fully supported * FB 2.1 : lacks support of tables *

: limited, sufficient support * Plain text : supported, might not correctly split text into paragraphs. * RTF : subset of RTF *

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(

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) : subset of DOC * PDF : **Android: via separate plugin with third-party library **Other platforms: not supported * DjVu : **Android: via separate plugin **Other platforms: not supported * Plucker : **Android: not supported at this moment **Other platforms: “absolute positioning” commands may be interpreted or ignored *DAISY 3 : added to Go Read for

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(a fork of FBReaderJ by

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)

Multi-Platform Support

* Tizen * Microsoft Windows *

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* FreeBSD *

* mobile

devices: ** Sharp Zaurus with Qtopia-based ROMs, pdaXrom or OpenZaurus ROM. ** Archos PMA430. ** Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad 0.9.0/Opie ROM. ** Noki
770N800N810
Nokia Internet tablets
maemo
. ** Pepper Pad 3. ** Motorola E680i/A780 smartphones. **

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** Digital Reader 1000 and Digital Reader DR800SG ** Hanlin eReader ** ''Openinkpot'' - OS replacement for Hanlin eReader and ''Hanvon N516'' ** Pocketbook -

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s ** SmartQ 5 and ''SmartQ 7''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fbreader Linux text-related software Free multimedia software Free software programmed in C++ Free software programmed in Java (programming language) EPUB readers Free and open-source Android software Open-source software converted to a proprietary license