CoolReader 3 - free e-book reader

(c) Vadim Lopatin, 1998-2009 All source codes (except thirdparty directory) are provided under the terms of GNU GPL license, version 2

This is a fork of pocketbook-port (sourceforge.net)

Source code is available at github.com

The forum thread is at mobileread.com

Help translating the app at transifex.com

Download

• Latest release
• OTA Source

Install

Grab the zip corresponding to your firmware from the link above. (Check the firmware from your device menu)

360  -> PB360
pro2 -> FW2.*
pro4 -> FW4.*
pro5 -> FW5.*

After downloading the zip file, extract it and copy the system dir to your device (overwrite the existing one)

Features summary (compared to pkb's version)

General

• FW5 compatible [pal]
• Google & Wikipedia buttons in the dictionary window
• Set book cover as power off logo [pal]
• Get hardware depth from device
• Control front light brightness by vertically swiping in FW5
• Control front light color by vertically swiping in FW5
• Turn pages by horizontally swiping
• Rewritten TOC window
• StandBy Mode
• Updated translations
• Full screen update on book load
• Fixed font selection bug in settings [pkb]
• Cite toolbar is working with touch devices
• Updated freetype
• More hyphenations
• Pinch screen to change font size
• Chinese is correctly shown in menus
• More page margin values
• More font size values
• Set default skin according to firmware and screen resolution (for fresh installs)

Settings

• Default font size (up to 300px)
• Formatting settings > Space expanding percent [xl743]
• Display settings > Standby
• Display settings > Custom system theme
• Display settings > Use new TOC menu
• Font settings > Font embolding [xl743]
• Font settings > Tracking [xl743]
• Style settings > * > Letter spacing [xl743]
• Page settings > Status line settings > Time format
• Page settings > Status line settings > Default font size (up to 300px)
• Control settings > Page Turn Swipes
• Control settings > Front Light Swipes
• Control settings > Pinch zoom
• Clear cache
• OTA Update (through Github)

Dictionary

• Show when long-tapping a word [pkb]
• Window doesn't jump around
• Set current word as default in the search keyboard
• Treat some dictionary "redirects" for Webster's 1913 Dictionary
• Working with Chinese [ailin-nemui]
• Try matching case sensitive before case insensitive

Tap actions

• Toggle system panel
• Open system panel (FW5 only)
• Launch front light (FW4 only, FW5 uses system panel)
• Toggle invert display
• Toggle status bar
• Tasks list
• Lock device
• OTA Update
• Full screen update
• Toggle Front Light (FW5 only)
• Set bookmark (for current page)
• Delete bookmark (for current page)
• Enter standby mode

Theme

• Changed the grey things to black
• New FW5 skin (for 758x1024 screens)
• Redesigned menu for touch devices with resolution greater than 600x800 using theme pb626fw5
• New touch menu automatically adapts to different resolutions
• Dictionary font automatically adapts to different resolutions
• Long tap the bookmark icon in the new menu to toggle current page bookmark

Localization

• Bulgarian
• Chinese
• Czech
• Dutch
• English
• Estonian
• French
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Russian
• Spanish
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

Directories:

crengine   - CREngine (DOM/XML/CSS ebook rendering library) sources
cr3gui     - CR3 with CR3GUI for e-ink devices sources
thirdparty - third party libraries, to use if not found in system
tinydict   - small library for .dict file format support
tools      - miscellaneous configuration files

External dependencies:

common: zlib, libpng, libjpeg, freetype, libcurl
cr3gui/xcb: libxcb, fontconfig
cr3gui/nanoX: libnanoX

Setting up the build environment:

# update repositories
sudo apt-get update

# install required binaries
sudo apt-get install cmake git zip

# download sdk
git clone https://github.com/blchinezu/pocketbook-sdk ~/PBDEV

# create required dirs
mkdir -p ~/PBDEV/sources ~/PBDEV/releases/coolreader3/dev

# download CR3 source
# (if you symlink this dir cmake will crash!)
git clone https://github.com/blchinezu/pocketbook-coolreader.git ~/PBDEV/sources/cr3-fork

Building stable version:

# go to the CR3 source
cd ~/PBDEV/sources/cr3-fork

# make sure you're working with "master" branch
git checkout master

# update source code
git pull

# build for all firmwares
bash make.sh

# or build for a single firmware
bash make.sh pro5

# you'll find your builds in ~/PBDEV/releases/coolreader3/dev/

Building dev version:

# go to the CR3 source
cd ~/PBDEV/sources/cr3-fork

# switch to "dev" branch
git checkout dev

# update source code
git pull

# build for all firmwares
bash make.sh

# or build for a single firmware
bash make.sh pro5

# you'll find your builds in ~/PBDEV/releases/coolreader3/dev/

Screenshots: