Ebook Reader Pro
Ebook Reader Pro is the Ebook reader that puts you back in control of your reading.
Once upon a time, all ebooks were text files, and it was entirely up to you how you viewed them. Project Gutenberg still uses plain text as its primary ebook format today. However, plain text lacks some features that are necessary to completely represent a book accurately, such as italics and chapter breaks. To remedy this, a plethora of new formats have appeared, most based on HTML. But all of these formats shift control of the viewing experience away from the reader. Everything from choice of font to whether your paragraphs are indented or not is now out of your control. You've probably attempted to mess around with style sheets and web browser overrides to get your books to appear as you want them and found it frustrating. We know we have. Ebook Reader Pro throws all that away, and gives you just the text, formatted however you like it.
Ebook Reader Pro currently works with TXT, HTML and LIT format ebooks. (EPUB support is planned, and we recommend using Calibre to convert any books you may have in legacy formats to EPUB. Also RTF support is a possibility if there is any demand for it.).
Ebook Reader Pro works well on the books we have tested it with, but there are many more books out there we haven't. It's quite likely that some books use formatting conventions that Ebook Reader Pro currently ignores. If you find a book that appears less than perfect in its layout, please email a copy to support at this domain, and we will try to handle it better in the next version.
Technical
Ebook Reader Pro runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X 10.4+. 1 GB of RAM is required.
Mac OS X 10.5 users: for the best experience, install the new Java SE 6 then open /Applications/Utilities/Java/Java Preferences and move SE 6 to the top of the lists.
Windows XP users: if you have only 1 GB of RAM the program may in rare cases fail to start. If this happens, try increasing your swapfile and rebooting. Upgrading to Windows 7 also fixes the problem. We do have a version of Ebook Reader Pro that will run with less than 1 GB but it runs more slowly. Email support at this domain.
Where can I find ebooks to read?
Most public domain books can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg. If you like science fiction, Baen have many of their books available for free download. (Choose the LIT format.) Even more Baen books are available at Firth Imperium.If you are buying ebooks, be sure they are not infected with DRM, because Ebook Reader Pro won't be able to read them and Catalyst won't be able to convert them. If you do have DRMed books, you may be able to use Convert LIT or MobiDeDRM to clean them (unless removing DRM is illegal in your country).