The app includes text-to-speech capabilities to read your text to you in a robotic voice. Pros: Good display customization and gesture control options, bundled manualĬons: No indication of progress within chapters, below-average title bar options
#COOL READER APP FOR ANDROID INSTALL#
You highlight your selection, and Cool Reader then displays icons that let you copy the text to the clipboard, look it up in a dictionary, bookmark it, share it or search for it within the document.Ĭool Reader bundles links to 10 dictionaries, but you must install any that you want to use.įormats supported: ePub, Mobi, HTML, DOC/RTF, text, FB2,TCR, CHM, PDB
Rather than using a long press, you must tap one of the pop-up icons to toggle selection mode. One of the icons, Options, lets you change the app's settings.Ĭool Reader's process for selecting a word or a phrase is awkward. Collectively, these icons let you control the app's operations - navigate within a book via search, go to a bookmarked page, jump to a particular page or see progress percentage, and more. You get nine icons that take up the bottom third of the screen, one of which, "More," leads to 10 additional icons. In Cool Reader, tapping on the center of the screen or the menu button brings up more options than does a similar action in the other programs. And you can set any of three page-turning animation options. You can select text to copy it to the clipboard, find it in the dictionary, add it as a bookmark or search with it. You can change screen brightness by flicking up and down on the left or right edge of the screen. Cool Reader divides the screen into a 3x3 grid, and you can specify two actions for each zone, such as next or previous page, forward by 10 pages, or toggle day/night display. The app also gives you a lot of options for gestures to control your reading experience. When reading, you can choose to use a document's internal style settings, but if you'd rather control styles yourself, Cool Reader gives you direct access to a wide range of format settings for paragraphs and other elements, such as titles and links. The app also has an optional toolbar (that you can display on either side of the screen) that contains icons that take you to your library, the book's table of contents, search, options and other settings. Unfortunately it doesn't show your progress within your current chapter or story, as Moon Reader+ can. (The app displays its Eastern European origin by its use of a comma rather than a decimal point in the percentage-read number). It can show you (optionally) the book title, page number, page count, chapter marks and percentage read, as well as the device's battery level. You can configure the title bar's typeface, size and color. The app has a day/night toggle that switches between two sets of font and background settings the day/night setting can also change the brightness of the screen.Ĭool Reader can display a status bar, which it calls a title bar, at the top of the screen - there's no way to display it at the bottom. You can set font size and top, bottom, left, and right margins in single-pixel increments. You can add additional fonts by placing TTF files in the Fonts directory of your device (according to the Cool Reader manual) similarly, you can add your own background images if none of the 30 provided with the program satisfy you.
You have to tap to bring up the app's pop-up options icons and then tap the one labeled Root.Ĭool Reader offers six fonts: one monospace, one serif and four sans serif. If a book is already open, getting to that screen is a little tricky. You can open the book you're currently reading or any recently read books, or browse for unread books in the file system or in any of seven bundled online catalogs - or you can add your own.
Cool Reader is an ambitious e-reader with a text-to-speech feature that none of the other programs offers for free, but it's not the most sophisticated app of the group.Ĭool Reader makes books available in several ways from its opening screen, which appears when you start the program (and if no book is already open).
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