FREE
$0(Free to use)
Kindle Cloud Reader lets you read ebooks instantly in your web browser - no Kindle device required. Use Reader to open PDF, XPS and TIFF files. Reader makes it easy to view documents, search for words and phrases, take notes, fill in forms, and print or share files. Also note that this app would be retired.
- Unlimited use with Free Voices
- Miniboard to read text in other applications
- Pronunciation Editor
- Works with PDF, Docx, TXT and ePub
Personal
$99.50(One-time payment)
- 2 natural voices included
- All features of Free Version included
- Convert to MP3
Professional
$129.50(One-time payment)
- 4 natural voices included
- All features of Personal Version included
Ultimate
$199.50(One-time payment)
- 6 natural voices included
- All features of Professional Version included
- 5000 images/year for OCR to read from images & scanned PDFs
Main Features
Text to Speech
Convert any text or document into natural-sounding voices.
Various Document Formats
Supports PDF, Docx, and text documents.
OCR with Printed Documents
OCR function can convert printed characters into digital text. This allows you to listen to your printed files or edit it in a word-processing program.
OCR with eBooks
OCR can be used to convert screenshots of text from eBook desktop apps, such as Kindle, into speech and audio files.
Text to Audio Files
Converts text into mp3 files for Windows or Mac.
PDF
Preserves the original formatting of PDF files
Footer & Header Adjustment
Adjust reading margins to skip reading from headers and footnotes on the page.
Miniboard
Offers a simple way of reading text directly on the page
Pronunciation Editor
You can manually modify the pronunciation of a certain word.
Reading is indispensable in our daily life. Unlike reading the traditional paper book, more people prefer a so called 'mobile reading' style along with the popularity of ebook reader. These small and portable electronic devices do facilitate our reading, but for some people who don't go out often and prefer reading on a bigger screen, reading on PC seems to be a better choice. Here are some of the most popular eBook reader for PC, with their main features and shortcomings. You can choose a right one as per your personal need.
1. Adobe Digital Editions
Adobe Digital Editions is a lightweight e-book reader launched by Adobe. Unlike other e-book reader, ADE has a strong library management. It provides a clear and comfortable display mode of which you can organize and order your e-books by title, author and publisher and other options.
The software can open, read and manage EPUB, PDF and Flash. You can also add comments by bookmarks, tags, and notes. Flash support means you can embed a document with rich audio and video content, which turns the boring text book into a rich media experience.
Main features:
- 1. Powerful markup
- 2. Full screen mode
- 3. Borrowing eBooks
- 4. File organization
- 5. High fidelity printing
- 6. Multilingual support
2. Calibre
Calibre is a comprehensive e-book library management program. By installing strong and various Calibre plugins you can do almost everything of e-book with Calibre. This strong open-source software may be best known for its format conversion. In fact Calibre is also an excellent e-book reader. It has a built-in e-book viewer that can display all the major e-book formats.
The Calibre e-book viewer provides various functions and settings. Most of its function buttons are designed to be easily understood. You can quickly implement the functions you want even without extra settings. The Calibre support customized keys and themes switch and almost all appearance of e-book can be changed or customized. You can even write your own CSS to beautify the e-book!
E Reader App For Pc
Main features
- 1. Library management
- 2. E-book conversion
- 3. Syncing to e-book reader devices
- 4. Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
- 5. Comprehensive e-book viewer
- 6. Content server for online access to your book collection
3. Kindle for PC
Kindle for PC is the official ebook reader for Amazon Kindle books. For those who have a Kindle eReader or Kindle Fire device, it's very convenient to synchronize the reading progress to PC so that you can read your favorite e-books seamlessly. You can also organize your Kindle e-books into different customized collections.
As for reading experience, the Kindle for PC is not as brilliant as Calibre. It just provides some general settings such as font size, background color, line width, brightness. Although with simple functions, it do has some design of humanization like you can add notes and highlights and look up words with its built-in dictionary which is very helpful in learning foreign language.
One shortcoming of Kindle for PC which must be pointed out is that it doesn't support the EPUB file, a very popular e-book format at present. So if you have many e-books of EPUB format, it's better to convert them into MOBI format as you can read them both on your Kindle device and Kindle for PC. Best EPUB to Mobi Converter--Convert EPUB to Kindle format.
Main features
- 1. Sync to the furthest page
- 2. Look up words with dictionaries in different languages
- 3. Search in books
- 4. Organize collections
- 5. Personalize your e-books
4. Epubor Reader
Epubor Reader is the most beautifully designed ebook reader in this list. It's enquipped with powerful functions although in a simple interface. It supports multiple ebook formats, including EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, PRC, TXT, etc. It provides a fully customizable reading experience and enables you to view, organize and manage all your ebooks in a single library.
Main Features:
- Much beautifully designed and user-friendly inferface.
- Supports multiple ebook formats including EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, PRC, TXT, HTMLZ, etc.
- Search in books.
- Library Management.
Windows Reader App
Jonny Greenwood joined Epubor since 2011, loves everything about eBooks and eReaders. He seeks the methods to read eBooks more freely and wants to share all he has got with you.