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When comparing Book Reader vs Cool Reader, the Slant community recommends Cool Reader for most people. In the question“What are the best eBook readers on Android?” Cool Reader is ranked 7th while Book Reader is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Cool Reader is:
Cool Reader is available completely free and is also open source.
Specs
LicenseGPL-3.0-only
PlatformsAndroid
LicenseGPL-2.0-only
PlatformsAndroid
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Pros
Pro PDF reflow
Pro Free and open source
Cool Reader is available completely free and is also open source.
Pro Fully customizable
Pro A wide range of formats supported
Cool Reader supports epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi (non-DRM) and pml formats.
Cons
Con No library.
You have to browse to the file every time you want to read.
Con Constantly changes brightness
Con Could have a better UI design
Con Does not support DRM .epubs
.epubs with DRM are not supported by Cool Reader.