Top 10 EPUB readers

October 21, 2023 | Editor:
These reading apps allow to open and read EPUB books. EPUB is the most popular standard for free ebooks. It's an official standard of International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). EPUB is supported by most readers on PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS and even on Windows Phone, Symbian and Blackberry. There are also some cloud services that allow to read EPUB books online. EPUB is also supported by Apple's iBooks.
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FBReader is an free eBook reader that supports numerous file formats like ePub, fb2, plucker, HTML, plain text, doc and more. You can also add multiple books at once in an archived format (tar, zip, gzip, bzip2). It supports embedded images, footnotes, hyperlinks, text search and full screen reading. It also has automatic bookmarking so that you don’t lose your place when closing a book.
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AlfaReader is a lightweight and fast ebook reader Ideal for reading electronic magazines, student textbooks, medical, scientific, technical books, illustrated books for kids. Includers built-in audiobook player
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Tolino relies on openness and leaves it up to you to decide which bookseller you would like to purchase your eBooks from. This way, you always enjoy the complete variety of offers from all available tolino eBook retailers. You can easily download existing EPUB and PDF eBooks to the tolino ereader and read them there; with the tolino cloud synchronization and the tolino library link, tolino offers you particularly practical functions for this.
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Android
Read tens of thousands of books for free, supports multiple online book sites. Read local books for nice experience with real-time smooth scroll and tons of innovation functions. Supports txt, html, epub, pdf, mobi, umd, fb2, chm, cbr, cbz, rar, zip or OPDS
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Discover free EPUB reader for Windows that transforms your screen into a top-notch ebook reader. Read ebooks in EPUB, MOBI, FB2, CBR and other popular formats. Easily manage a digital library on your PC with Icecream Ebook Reader. Track reading progress, add notes, translate text, use bookmarks, and more. Provides text to speech function.
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The #1 ePub Reader. Read, annotate and manage ePub books like never before. It works on all your devices and is free to use. Available for free on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, Kindle Fire and the Web, Neat Reader works seamlessly across all major devices to keep your reading in sync.
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One app to read them all. Bring all your ebooks, comics and audiobooks in the same place, no matter where they're coming from. Import your own EPUB, CBZ or PDF files. Buy all the latest releases and best sellers from Feedbooks, with a catalog that contains over a million references. Built-in support for public libraries, allowing you to easily browse your library's catalog and borrow books from them. Thousands of public domain books from Feedbooks
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Adobe Digital Editions software offers an engaging way to view and manage eBooks and other digital publications. Use it to download and purchase digital content, which can be read both online and offline. Transfer copy-protected eBooks from your personal computer to other computers or devices. Organize your eBooks into a custom library and annotate pages. Digital Editions also supports industry-standard eBook formats, including PDF/A and EPUB.
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iOS
i2Reader is an innovative and award-winning eBook reader. Support of EPUB, PDF, RTF, HTML, FB2, DOC and plain text formats. One-way built-in Web server to upload books and dictionaries from your computer. Custom-made PDF rendering engine that reformats the text from PDFs for easier reading on the iPhone screen.
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Android
EBookDroid is a highly customizable document viewer for Android. EBookDroid supports the following ebook and document formats: DjVU, PDF, XPS (OpenXPS), FictionBook (fb2 and fb2.zip), Comics Book formats (cbr and cbz), plus - starting with version 2.0 - EPUB and RTF. EBookDroid 2.0 provides the following extra tools: Text selection and external dictionary support. Text highlighting. Free-hand annotations. Text notes and page notebooks.
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CoolReader - an open-source program for reading electronic books in a variety of formats for Windows and Linux. There are also versions for OS Android and e-reading devices (LBook, PocketBook)
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Book reader compatible with Android. Read formats: fb2, fbz, txt, epub, html, doc, docx, odt, rtf, mobi, prc (PalmDoc), tcr. Supported ZIP and GZ archives. It is possible to specify an encoding of reading file (include 932, 936, 949, 950 code page). Local library. The selection of authors, series, title, publication year, genre. Supported interface languages: russian, english, german, greek, ukrainian, belarusian. Fb2 and TXT file editing. If a file is in an archive, edited file is unpacked to the same directory as the original one.
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SumatraPDF, also known as Sumatra, is a free and open-source software PDF reader for Microsoft Windows only. The program also opens Open XML Paper Specification, DjVu, EPUB, XPS, CHM, CBZ and CBR, and MOBI files
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Free eBook Reader. Read EPUB, DJVU, TXT, FB2, DOCX, RTF, PDF, CBR, CB7, CBZ, CBC, AZW3, MOBI eBook online. Easy ebook navigation. Fast and powerful eBook reader with a clean user interface
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KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. Supported fileformats include EPUB, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, DOC, MOBI and ZIP files. It’s available for Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Android and desktop Linux.
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Marvin's unique Artificial Intellegence reads your books with you and helps you discover amazing things about them. Build summaries in seconds and pin any web content to your books. Marvin has hundreds of amazing features and refinements designed closely with readers who are passionate about their books. Control page warmth, reading timers, multi-columns, themes and dozens of other reader-friendly features.
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Hyphen is a beautiful, personal ePub reader for iPad and iPhone. Hyphen uses iCloud to sync your books, reading location, highlights and more. Hyphen makes it a breeze to highlight and comment on important parts of the text.
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Microsoft's web browser that allows to read PDF and EPUB books.
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Lucidor is a simple tool for reading, managing and organizing your eBooks within your own personal bookcase. It supports ePub and OPDS catalog files. You can search for eBooks online and download them right into the application. A unique feature Lucidor has is the ability to have multiple eBooks open at one time. It does this via it’s tabbed interface, which is much like a Web browser. Lucidor even supports themes. There is also a search bar for finding specific keywords or phrases within your content.
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Android
Librera Reader is a highly customizable and feature-rich application for reading books in PDF, EPUB, MOBI, DjVu, FB2, TXT, RTF, AZW, AZW3, HTML, CBZ, CBR formats on Android devices. With its intuitive, yet powerful, interface, Librera makes ebook reading a veritable pleasure. It even features a unique auto-scrolling, hands-free Musician’s mode. As of today, it can boast more than 10 million downloads to devices running all flavors of Android OS.
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Windows PC
Blio is a feature-rich eReading application that allows you to go beyond the written word. Experience books through the eyes of the author, with crystal clear sound and images that come alive in brilliant color.
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Not only an eBooks, Comics reader but also a tons-of-free-ebook-downloader, with dictionary inside for you to studies languages.
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A simple, focused eBook reader for Linux. Read the books you love without having to worry about different format complexities like epub, pdf, mobi, cbr, etc.
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ReadEra is an Android application for reading books and viewing documents, free and without ads. Open and read book files in EPUB, FB2, PDF, DJVU, MOBI, DOC, RTF, TXT and CHM formats. Automatically detects and displays the list of all supported documents on your device, Identifies duplicate files. Support for a table of contents, bookmarks, visual styles. Automatically saves the current reading position, even if the files are moved or temporarily deleted.
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eReader Prestigio: Book Reader is a multi lingual, multi format text and audio books reading app. Intuitive interface in over 25 languages and an in app store library with over 50,000 text (for children and adults) books and Text-To-Speech (read along) functionality.
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Okular is a universal book viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4. This means Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc. Okular combines the excellent functionalities of KPDF with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others.
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Lithium is an EPUB reader app for Android. It features automatic book detection, highlighting & notes, night & sepia themes, switch between pages and scrolling. Built with Material Design. 100% ad-free. The pro version allows to sync reading position, highlights, notes, bookmarks and more across your devices with Google Drive (books themselves are not currently synced), custom reading themes (custom colors).
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A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops. Beautiful Pages. Supports EPUB, Mobipocket, Kindle, FictionBook, and comic book archive formats. Single-column, two-column, or continuous scrolling layouts
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iBouquiniste is an ebook reader like none you've seen before. This app supports FB2, EPUB and TXT formats and offers adjustable fonts, paragraph indents, paper type and more. iBouquiniste gives you a reading experience that's as close as you can get to reading a real book, and it even lets you share your favorite books via email. Click "...More" to learn why you should download this App today!
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Download eBooks or import your own via SkyDrive. Read internet news stories with News Stream. Enjoy reading anywhere with Nokia Reading on your Nokia Lumia. Import your own DRM-free ebooks (in EPUB or PDF format) into your Nokia Reading library via SkyDrive. Create your own personal web magazine with News Stream by accessing RSS streams from popular newspapers, magazines, fansites and blogs. Download eBooks straight to your smartphone in seconds and take them wherever you go. Start reading and seamlessly continue where you left off - we automatically save to the last page read. Adjust settings to the way you want to read - change the font size, the screen orientation and switch between day and night mode.
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Fiction Book Reader is an application for reading e-book on Windows Phone 7 devices. A distinctive peculiarity of the app is pleasant design and ease of use of the rich app functionality. Our goal is to create the best application for reading book on WP7. Features: Support SkyDrive, Dropbox, OPDS catalogs and SD card for book downloads, Support fb2, epub (without DRM), mobi (without DRM) and txt formats, Automatic word wrapping (optional).
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Freda is a free program for reading electronic books (ebooks) on Windows and Android. On Windows, it's a Universal App, which means it runs equally well on your desktop PC or tablet PC, and on your Windows Mobile phone. On Android, it works on any phone or tablet running Jellybean, Kitkat or any more recent version of the operating system.
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EPUBReader is a browser addon which lets you read ePub-files without DRM just in the browser. You don't need to install additional software. If you click on a link to an ePub-file, you are normally prompted by the Firefox or Chrome "save as" dialog. With EPUBReader installed, the ePub-file is downloaded, processed and directly displayed ready to read. It runs on every operating system (Windows, MacOS X, Linux)
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The most popular e-book reader, designed only for Windows Phone. Best reading experience. Most beautiful interface design. Most richest set options for reading. Most privacy-conscious reader, supports password protection globally, once opened, any leave the reader will trigger a protection mode, completely protecting your privacy. Most abundant source of books, support ShuPeng.com, ShuCang.come, SkyDrive, Wi-Fi Transport, MoHoo Manager, SD Card, or even relate directly to EPUB, UMD, RAR, MBP and other formats, supports direct downloads from IE automatically opened after reading in the book. Most smooth boot experience, as silky as Dove.
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Readk.it is a responsive EPUB reading system taking advantage of the abilities of modern web browsers to allow an attractive reading experience on all manner of devices. Readk.it is free for all to use and adapt.
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EPUB Reader is an e-book reader for the EPUB-format. Features: read unprotected EPUB book with page and chapter based navigation, open books from almost anywhere on your phone, e.g. by downloading them in the browser or opening email attachments, import books from the SD card, portrait and landscape modes, customizable font and colors with day and night mode, save last position per book and resume when reopening the app, bookmarks & text highlighting, share selected text via mail or social networks, browse your library by title, author or book series, pin books to the start screen
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Free online EPUB viewer. Allows to add files from your computer or by URL

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2014. Readk.it - browser-based EPUB reading system



Readk.it is an innovative, cost-effective solution for ebook content preparation and delivery. This free, open-source browser-based reading platform allows users to bypass the complexities and expenses associated with preparing ebook content for various proprietary delivery systems. With Readk.it, users can leverage a browser's display capabilities to customize how the content is rendered, regardless of the device being used. The Readk.it Solo component further simplifies the process by converting EPUB books into a single HTML file that can be easily delivered via email and read offline. This platform demonstrates confidence in the advancements of modern web design, enabling the flexible delivery of rich content across diverse devices. Jason Darwin, the developer behind Readk.it, emphasizes the importance of adopting responsive design techniques for ebook developers, considering the widespread availability of modern web browsers that offer greater functionality compared to proprietary reading systems.