AlReader -any text book reader

Alan.Neverland

About this app

Program is designed for reading fiction book.
- Book reader compatible with Android 1.6+
- read formats: fb2, fb3, fbz, txt, epub (no DRM), html, doc, docx, odt, rtf, mobi (no DRM), 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).
- Support Text-To-Speech (TTS) (permission to the calls need to stop tts while calling)
- Support network libraries (OPDS)
- Local library. The selection of authors, series, title, publication year, genre.
- Supported interface languages: russian, english, german, greek, ukrainian, belarusian, polish, chineze, bulgarian, turkish.
- Supported external dictionaries.
- Fb2 and TXT file editing. If a file is in an archive, edited file is unpacked to the same directory as the original one.
- It is possible to select code page for file names in zip.
- Correct hyphenation for 20 languages.
- Four profiles with independent font, color, brightness, gamma correction and indent of text.
- One- and two-page mode with automatic switch to the two-page mode in landscape.
- Configuring of display styles (headings, citations, abstracts, etc.). Each style includes font, color, text style, text size, shadow, indent, spacing and so on.
- Search.
- Autoscroll "wave" and "slide".
- 3D paging animation.
- Initial letter to one or two lines of text at the beginning of each chapter or paragraph.
- Independent setting of all items in the status bar and footer for windowed and full-screen mode.
- Support for display of footnotes on the page for fb2- and (most) epub-files.
- The horizontal and vertical alignment of text on the screen.
- Hanging punctuation.
- "Sections from a new page" option.
- Navigation in the text: by percents, by pages, to the beginning/end of the text, 10 pages forward/backward, to the next/previous chapter.
- Table of contents in fb2-, doc- and epub-files.
- 9 tap-zones for short and long taps, gestures, gestures with two fingers, resize text by "pinch", to assign the actions for buttons.
- Support E-Ink screens. Adaptation of appearance for the E-Ink screens, support of "fast" refresh for many EINK devices.
- Fixation of screen rotation.
- Support 9.png skins with automatic selection of one- or two-page mode.
- Upon selection of embedded texture, background color is taken into account, i.e. mix of textures and colors.
- Clock behind the text.
- Quotes, bookmarks, text labeling, sending the selected text to third-party programs.
- Creating shortcuts for books on the home screen.
- Save / restore program settings / styles / current profile (+fonts, +skins) / text styles.
- Ability to hold screen backlight (up to 20 minutes of inactivity).
- Fine-tuning of various indentations, adjusting software shading of the screen (if minimal hardware brightness level is too high for comfortable use).
- The program collects anonymous statistics of open books for creating the top -100 authors and books. This top -100 is available in program.
- Synchronize reading position via network or file system.

Ratings and reviews

Nice, lightweight app for reading epubs. I think this app may have been translated from another language, which is why some buttons have different text (like the back button being "up"), but it's easy to navigate once you get used to it. You can also change background page colors too, which is nice.

Highly customizable reading app, easy to navigate, easy to make bookmarks. Reflows text when you zoom to different font sizes. Scans local folders quickly to make a local library on your device, to be viewable by author or titles. Quick to load. My most favorite ebook reader. Just wish the Windows version worked like the great Android one!

I have used AlReader for several years on numberous devices and I even recommended it to my computer-illiterate father for reading his books. Very very nice app. It's my primary app for reading ebooks on my tablet and for listening to ebooks (using TTS) on my phone while in the car. Two features I'd like to see: 1. I'd like to be able to set it up to begin TTS immediately upon startup. Like I said above, a major use case for me is listening to ebooks while driving. This option would make it less likely that I'd crash my car while starting up my book-read. :-) It would also make it a bit more compatible (for me) with Android Auto. 2. Built-in Solarized colors might be nice. I have already set this up on my tablet manually -- nice to be able to do this! -- but having it built-in would save a bit of work when installing it fresh on a new device.

What's new

+ The color of the android status bar can be customized in the main settings (android 6+). The default is Black.
+ fixed access to memory card in android 11
+ many minor fixes