Great Apps to Read Books on Your Phone
E-book, paper, or smartphone? While some frantically wrestle with questions of taste, others read quietly from their phones. Here are the best reader apps for your phone.
FBReader
FBReader has everything you need for comfortable reading. You can customize fonts, set your own backgrounds, format text display styles, alignment, choose reading modes, and adjust backlighting. There’s handy cataloging: build your own library and switch between books if you’re reading several at once. There is a separate navigation by table of contents, markers of user bookmarks. FBReader synchronizes with many dictionaries: you can see the meaning of unfamiliar words. Translation of foreign words is available only in premium accounts. FBReader works offline and receives constant updates to stay as user-friendly as Hellspin1 or the Netflix app.
eBoox
It’s a reader for those who are tired of ascetic monochrome interfaces. In eBoox, you will be greeted by a chubby red cat named Baton and a friendly main menu. eBoox calls itself “the most enjoyable book reader. The app has step-by-step instructions on how to optimize the interface. Fonts, visual themes, and color schemes can be customized. Loading files is fast, and there’s also easy synchronization between devices or cloud storage if you read on different gadgets or have switched smartphones.
Moon+ Reader
Another popular and intuitive reader with over 10 million downloads on Google Play and constant developer support. Moon+ Reader supports extensive interface optimization: fonts, backgrounds, flipping options, line spacing, text formatting and more. According to the classics, there is a day and night theme, but there are also about a dozen preset themes to choose from. Including, you can build a custom theme and save it. It supports over 20 languages, synchronizes with cloud storage. The free version of the app is absolutely complete, but there is intrusive advertising. Periodically the reader suffers from lags and doesn’t always display correctly the built-in formatting of documents, including links and footnotes.
Wattpad
Wattpad is more of a reader and writer’s community. The choice of those who have already reread all the novelties and “oldies” and want something more. Thousands of authors publish their work here, from major novels to small essays. You can find a new favorite writer and follow the creation of a literary work. You can also become an author by sharing your stories. There’s also feedback here: you can tag works, give them likes, leave reactions. The creators assure that Wattpad is used by 90 million users from around the world and some of them even became famous thanks to the application. You can save your favorite works and authors into collections and create your own library.
eReader Prestigio
Another Android-only app. Besides accessing third-party downloads, eReader Prestigio has direct access to the library – books can be searched right there without using other resources. There are over 5,000 free books in different formats and languages. The peculiarity of the application is that it supports not only text formats, but also audio and video. There is a TTS option to read books aloud in more than 25 languages. By the way, the menu also supports two dozen languages. There is a synchronization with Google Translate for the identification of unfamiliar words.
Lithium: EPUB Reader
A handy reader for early versions of Android. Users write about the responsive, intuitive interface and a complete lack of bugs and brakes. At the same time in Lithium: EPUB Reader, there are no ads at all. The app correctly displays all program styles of the file, contains a huge library of fonts, and doesn’t disrupt formatting when converting and opening documents. There is also auto-recognition and downloading of files from the internal memory of the smartphone.
