About Cool Reader
eBook reader. Supports epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi (non-DRM), pml formats. Pages or scroll view. Page flipping animation. Table of contents, bookmarks, text search. Bookmarks on text...
eBook reader. Supports epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi (non-DRM), pml formats.
Pages or scroll view. Page flipping animation.
Table of contents, bookmarks, text search.
Bookmarks on text fragments (comments or corrections) - useful for proof reading.
Export of bookmarks to text file.
Built-in file browser, quick recent books access.
Online catalogs (OPDS) support.
LitRes online book store support.
Text to Speech (TTS) support.
Hyphenation dictionaries;
Most complete FB2 format support: styles, tables, footnotes.
Additional fonts support (place .ttf to /sdcard/fonts/)
Support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean languages; autodetection of TXT file encoding (GBK, Shift_JIS, BIG5, EUC_KR).
Day and night profiles (two sets of colors, background, backlight levels).
Brightness adjustments by flick on left edge of screen.
Background texture (stretched or tiled) or solid color.
Paperbook-like page turning animation or "sliding page" animation.
Dictionary support (ColorDict, GoldenDict, Fora Dictionary, Aard Dictionary).
Customizable tap zone and key actions.
Autoscroll (automatic page flipping) - start using menu/goto/autoscroll or assign action Autoscroll on key or tap zone; Change speed using volume keys or bottom-right and bottom-left tap zones; stop - tap any other tap zone or key.
Can read books from zip archives.
Automatic reformatting of .txt files (autodetect headings etc.)
Styles can be customised in wide range using external CSS.
Select text using double tap (optional).
Place additional textures to /sdcard/.cr3/textures/ -- to be used as tiled page backgrounds.
Place additional textures to /sdcard/.cr3/backgrounds/ -- to be used as stretched page backgrounds.
(/cr3/ directory can also be used instead of /.cr3/, and internal SD or internal storage instead of /sdcard/)
CoolReader requires following permissions:
WAKE_LOCK - to control screen backlight
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - to access SD card
INTERNET - to use online catalogs
CoolReader is free, open source (GPL), multiplatform project.
Project homepage on SourceForge is http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/
To donate this project, you can buy Cool Reader Gold ($10), Silver ($3) or Bronze ($1) Donation package from Market
In case of issues after update (e.g. crashes while reading) try to remove directory SD/.cr3/cache and book database files SD/.cr3/*.sqlite
Windows version can be downloaded here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/files/CoolReader3/cr3-newui-opengl/cr3-win32-qt-opengl-3.3.48.zip/download
As well, consider using "Cool Reader GL" - cross-platform Cool Reader version with UI rewritten in C++, with hardware acceleration based on OpenGL. Optimized for new devices with big high resolution screens. Both versions can be installed together.
Project homepage: https://github.com/buggins/coolreader
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Cool Reader since it was posted on our website on 2015-04-25 03:00:00.
The latest version is 3.2.55-1 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 18:24:14. See below the changes in each version.
Cool Reader version 3.2.55-1
Updated At: 2021-03-09
Changes: Text-to-speech improvements.
Cloud synchronization fixes.
Stability fixes.
Onyx e-ink readers support.
Cool Reader version 3.2.53-1
Updated At: 2021-03-09
Changes: Font rendering fixes
Stability fixes
Cool Reader version 3.2.50-1
Updated At: 2021-02-08
Changes: Google Drive support for storing of reading positions and bookmarks.
Scroll view issues fixed.
Fixed glued paragraphs bug.
Text to speech fixes.
HTML parser fixes.
Cool Reader version 3.2.45-1
Updated At: 2020-10-28
Changes: CSS support improvements.
Merge some changes from koreader project.
Improved fb3 support.
Bidirectional text support.
Crashes fixed.
Cool Reader version 3.2.38-1
Updated At: 2020-08-13
Changes: OPDS support fixes.
Default OPDS libraries list update.
Unnecessary resizing of book view fixed (including wrong position after GoToPage)
Cool Reader version 3.2.36-1
Updated At: 2020-01-21
Changes: Added support of formats fb3 and docx.
Fixed incorrect text rendering when some characters are substituted from fallback font.
Text formatting performance improvements.
Improved support of file managers "Files" (com.android.externalstorage.documents) and "Files" (com.google.android.apps.nbu.files).
Fixed dimming of on-screen system buttons with option "Dim keys highlight" on Android 4.4+ w/o fullscreen mode.
Information about used tango icon library is added to About.
Cool Reader version 3.2.32-1
Updated At: 2020-01-14
Changes: Fixed saving of reading position for some files.
Fixed infinite loading progress of book.
Android 4.4+ issue with page flipping only by double tap.
Book language font compatibility check fixed.
Note: notification area dimming can be turned off using "button backlight" setting.
Cool Reader version
Updated At: 2015-07-17
Changes: Fix crash on ARM64 devices
Cool Reader version 3.0.45-10
Updated At: 2011-04-27
Changes: Several fixes and updates
