Read and edit ePUB files

Cool Reader 3

Cool Reader is focused on ePUB reading and favors a clean view, with large icons and large fonts.

Notable features:

• Option to switch to night mode, in order to have a dark background, more pleasant for the eyes
• Animation on page change
• Audio playback of the document
• Clear and quickly accessible icon bar
• Pleasant interface and navigation between pages entirely possible with the mouse

Calibre

A true ePUB Swiss Army Knife, however, Calibre can become a heavyweight when it comes to quickly viewing an ePUB file.

Notable features:

• Editing file metadata
• Multilingual interfaceData library, with classification, searches, import from different sources...
• Advanced file conversion (different reprocessing possible) to MOBI, ePUB, PDF, RTF, TXT, ZIP...

Disadvantages

• Obligation to go through library mode, even when you just want to display an ePUB immediately
• Slowness when launching the viewing of an ePUB
• Ergonomics sometimes painful, as for example with the options that are displayed in cascade (one under the other).

FBReader

FBReader is a fast reader of ePUB files.

Notable features:

• Multilingual interface
• Page rotation
• Choice of colors (background, text, hyperlink, selected text)
• Viewing books in a virtual library

STDU Viewer

STDU Viewer displays in thumbnail form the list of documents in a directory (PDF, ePUB, images, etc.) and displays the page and the tree structure on the left when selecting.

Notable features:

• Can open of CBR, CBZ, ePUB, PDF...
• Proposes at start-up to reopen the last open file, to the last page browsed.
• Can change the brightness, contrast, and gamma of the page
• Multilingual interface (French, English, German, Polish)
• Can rotate the page, display several pages at once on the screen
• Text selection with copy and export possibilities
• Show bookmarks, page thumbnails. Possibility to choose the size and number of thumbnails
• Conversion CBR, CBZ, TIFF to PDF (paid version only)

Sumatra PDF

SumatraPDF is primarily a software for displaying PDFs but it reads EPUB files (as well as MOBI files) very well. Its lightness allows it to open them quickly.

Notable features:

• Can open CBR, CBZ, EPUB, PDF, MOBI...
• Tree view, left
• Choose one or two pages on the screen
• Text search
• Rotate page (90°, 180°, 270°)
• Zoom