Text-to-speech improvements.
Cloud synchronization fixes.
Stability fixes.
Onyx e-ink readers support.
Font rendering fixes
Stability fixes
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.
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.
CSS support improvements.
Merge some changes from koreader project.
Improved fb3 support.
Bidirectional text support.
Crashes fixed.
OPDS support fixes.
Default OPDS libraries list update.
Unnecessary resizing of book view fixed (including wrong position after GoToPage)
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.
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.
Various fixes.
Font rendering fixes.
Crash fixes.
Performance fixes.
Kerning algorithm optimizations
E-ink devices support improvements (Onyx)
Some crashes fixed
Freetype version updated
Stability fixes (virxcane, buggins)
OPDS https connection issue fixed (virxkane)
Screen Orientation default setting is changed from Sensor to Portrait (buggins)
fixes by community developers
buggins:
Support of SD cards for Android 6+
virxkane:
All ONYX devices detected as e-ink
Buttons on ONYX and Nook fixed
Themes for e-ink devices
New kerning
"Sort order" in file browser
Glyph overlap is fixed
plotn:
Toolbar size setting
Two gray themes added
Search history
Two dictionaries
S-trace:
Read Aloud stop timeout
Magisk fix
norbi24:
Tolino Vision HD4
Margin settings bug fixed
Fix crash on ARM64 devices
Fix crash on ARM64 devices
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