Favorite Book Reader
In December 2021, after years of development suspension, we released FBReader 2.0 for Linux. Although the app includes most iOS and Android versions features, this is not a port of the mobile version. It is designed especially for desktop/laptop computers.
FBReader 2.0 is free of charge but not open-source. Currently, it is available on the Snap store. That means you can install the reader on the most popular Linux distributions like Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and more others. We release the AppImage package and builds for Mac and Windows in early 2022.
Current version: 2.0β4 (published 31 December 2021)
The app is ready to use. However, it is published as a beta because some functions are still missing. The table shows the status of the most significant features in the latest version.
| Reading books | |
|---|---|
| Supported formats | ePub, fb2, fb2.zip, mobi, rtf, MS doc, plain text, cbz |
| Not supported formats | cbr, cb7, pdf, djvu, docx |
| Book reading, styles, hyperlinks, hyphenations | Fully implemented |
| Page header and footer | Implemented, is customisable; needs some UI tweaks |
| Page turning/text scrolling | Only arrow keys page turning is presented; mouse wheel text scrolling is to be implemented |
| Multi-book (multi-window) mode | Fully implemented |
| Two-column mode | Fully implemented |
| Text selection | Implemented, excluding automatic text scrolling when user selects end of the page |
| Table of contents | Works; needs some UI tweaks |
| Bookmarks | Implemented: adding, removing, style selection, navigation over the bookmarks list; to be implemented: text editing, style editing |
| Language selection | Authomatic language/encoding detection only; there is no way to fix a detection error manually |
| Advanced text navigation | Not implemented yet |
| Library | |
| All titles list | Fully implemented |
| Lists of recently added/opened books | Fully implemented |
| Books by author | Fully implemented |
| Books by series | Fully implemented |
| Books by tags | Not implemented yet |
| Custom shelves | Not implemented yet |
| Book download | Fully implemented |
| Book meta info dialogue | Fully implemented |
| Book deletion | Not implemented yet |
| Multiple book selection, group operations | Not implemented yet |
| Network catalogues | Not implemented yet |
| Cloud synchronisation | |
| Titles list from server | Fully implemented |
| Uploading new books to the server | Not implemented yet |
| Deleting books | Not implemented yet |
| Positions | Fully implemented |
| Bookmarks | Fully implemented |
| Custom shelves | Not implemented yet |
| Preferences | |
| Preferences dialogue | Implemented; some minor pages and options are still missing |
| Settings export/import | Not implemented yet |
| Other known issues | |
| The app never deletes its cache | |
| Dark theme is missing | |