FBReader — e-book reader for Unix/Windows computers


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When you open FBReader for the first time, you will see the following picture:

How To Start (default colors)

My preferred colors are a bit different:

How To Start (my colors)

You can also see that the icons are not updated in the documentation

At the bottom, you can see the toolbar, however all(most?) of its functionality is available through a menu:

How To Start (with menu on top)

You can check the book information (title, author) by clicking appropriate icon (<icon image will be put here> :)) or by choosing "Book Info..." item in the menu:

How To Start (document information)

Usually you start reading by opening your library:

Library View (with all items expanded)

Library contains all books that are found in the appropriate directories. By default, maemo version of FBReader looks for books in ~/MyDocs/Books and /media/mmc1/Books directories. However you might change this setting to suite your taste:

First Page of Options Dialog

After you open a book, you can start reading.

At any moment, you can switch to the full screen mode by hitting hardware key "fullscreen":

You can always open the menu by using hardware key "menu":

Several images can be shown on the screen if they fit together:

Of course, it supports languages other than Russian. :) For example, English:

Or if you prefer default colors

Or if you prefer reading in portrait mode:

Alice (rotated:))

Beside the parameters shown above, you can customize the following items:

List of fonts (styles page)