# About FBReader

FBReader

FBReader is an e-book reader for Linux/Windows XP PDA/UMPC/desktop computer. FBReader supports several e-book formats: ePub, fb2, chm, rtf, plucker, etc. Direct reading from zip, tar, gzip and bzip2 archives is also supported.

FBReader is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

If you like the program and would like to support its development, please visit make donation page.


How To Start

FBReader looks for ePub, fb2 and OpenReader books in directories listed in the Book Path option. First of all you need to set this path. Open the options dialog (just click on in the toolbar) and change the value of Book Path option in the Library tab. This option contains the list of directories containing *.epub, *.fb2, *.orb or archive files. Directories in the list are separated by colons.

Open library (click on ), select a book from the list and read it.

To read a file in another format, you need to add it to the library. Start add to library dialog (), select a file and edit the file information. Next time you can open this file using library ().

Related sites

More information about this program can be found at FBReader homepage.

If you want to be notified about new releases, please subscribe to FBReader project at freshmeat.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please use FBReader group at googlegroups.