Classic eReader - book reader

Bartolomei Development

About this app

Classic eReader - your favourite Android book reader, is a simple and intuitive ereader app for reading books in the epub format.

Some features of the Classic eReader:

✔ redesigned user interface, optimized for phones, 7'' and 10'' tablets,

✔ TalkBack support,

✔ app gamification option (through Google Play Services, go to Settings → GAMIFY to activate it): reading Leaderboards + in app badges through Achievements,

✔ Dropbox synchronization option so you can read your favorite books on any of your android devices (Dropbox account is needed to be able to use this option),

✔ full dark mode theme customizable from Settings → General → Night Mode,

✔ organizes your books in (multilevel) collections,

✔ highlighting and notes,

✔ library icons view or book covers view options,

✔ library search option for books and collections,

✔ multi-select feature (select multiple books and/or collections to move or delete),

✔ multiple book import (you can select multiple folders and/or books to import in your library),

✔ online library with most read books from the public domain (free books in English, for all ages),

✔ statistics with time spent reading per month,

✔ built in Text To Speech (TTS - reads the text in the book aloud). Supported languages: German, English (+localizations), Spanish (+localizations), French (+localizations), Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (+localizations), Russian, Chinese (+localizations), (*)

✔ option to customize the TTS voice pitch and speech rate,

✔ text align, text color and font resize options,

✔ option to change the page transition mode (7 available transitions at the moment),

✔ night mode reading feature,

✔ screen brightness change feature,

✔ jump to page option,

✔ bookmarks (add, manage and go to bookmark),

✔ book description,

✔ page progress,

✔ full screen reading mode,

✔ you can open epub files in Classic eReader from any external file explorer,

✔ option to add book to "My Library" when opening it from "Find On Device" or an external file explorer,

✔ sorting options for books and collections in "My Library" (setup from Settings → General → My Library),

✔ option to open last read book on app start (setup from Settings → General → Read).


For issues/bugs and new features requests, please send an email to: [e-mail]
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(*) The Text To Speech feature is built upon Google Text To Speech ( Google TTS ) engine. For a complete list of supported languages, go to: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.tts

You can install / update Google TTS directly from the Classic eReader app (if your device has access to Google Play Store), from the 'Settings' section.

Ratings and reviews

It's nice reader for reading ebooks you own from your local drive. Most good features are available: night mode, bookmarks, jump to page, text to speech, etc. There are some free books from the internet (mostly classics) but you can't search for them; you have to scroll all coz you can only search your own library. The free copies are okay but some words are joined (ex: thecat, absorball, beenabandoned). Would love it if we can highlight specific phrases and if there's a centralized "notebook".

Crashes on book import 100% of the time if books are on external storage (yes permission was given) . Cannot save to external storage. No true dark theme. Does not recognize that Google TTS is already installed and enabled. Incredibly, slow at loading books. Words joined together (does not happen in other readers.). Plus other annoyances and issues. Sorry, but not really a very usable reader at this stage. It gets a 2nd star for having some potential.

I saw this app recommended on Blind Android Users. I bought, tried to read with a screen reader, but the app turned out to be totally inaccessible. I tried to add it to the family library, but I get an error message that says: "Failed to add to family library". In other words, a total failure. Ready to uninstall.

What’s new

Bug fixes related to Dropbox sync.