![]() ![]() You can customize what each individual zone does when it is activated by tapping it once, twice, or doing a long-hold tap on that area. Only Cool Reader sees them, and responds to your touch within each zone. ![]() I’ve included a screenshot so you can see how the zones are set up, but you can’t see the lines when you’re reading the book. What this means is that each page you read is divided, invisibly, into nine separate and equal size blocks, or ‘zones’, that are touch sensitive. One of the greatest features of CR, in my opinion, is the ability to customize the various options and features into what’s known as ‘tap zones’ within the view of the eBook. You have to see it to really appreciate how elegant it is. It even has an absolutely gorgeous ‘page-turn’ animation that simulates the flipping of a page to the next one. There are literally pages and pages of customization and comfort options in Cool Reader’s menu, and listing every single one would amount to a user manual, so I’m not going to do that here, but you start to see the point that it really does offer a way to fit nearly anyone’s eBook needs. High backlight levels for the day profile and lower for the night, for instance. In addition to the options mentioned already, CR also lets you define specific backlight levels for each profile. This gives my eBooks a nice, old paperback feel to them, which is quite comfy and nostalgic for me. On my own Cool Reader, I use a nifty ‘parchment’ texture I found on a website of free texture files. As if that wasn’t enough, it also allows you to use your own customized backgrounds, in the form of picture files, like jpgs or bmps. The program uses a standardized color mixer so you can choose from literally thousands of colors and hues and shades for backgrounds and for fonts. Any combination of color and font and size is allowed, and is stored for whichever profile you like.Īdditionally, CR has several custom backgrounds built in, such as a ‘sand’ texture, a few different ‘paper’ textures, and of course an option to have the background be a solid color of your choice. It also allows you to store each of these options within the night or day profiles so you could have a day profile that has a 12pt font of bright green letters, and you could have a night profile with a 20pt font of dark orange letters. For example: Cool Reader allows you to change the font, font size, and font color of the text you are reading. Many reader programs offer this kind of function, but Cool Reader actually takes it a step further by integrating this function with the other available options. Cool Reader sets and stores a separate profile for each mode, and will automatically switch between those profiles when you activate either mode.įor those who may not be familiar with eBook reader programs day mode usually has dark text on a light background and night mode is just the opposite. Within the options menu, there are such useful things like night and day modes. Cool Reader is loaded with an ungodly amount of customization options, editable in both the options menu, and from within the book view itself. Personally, to keep things easy and simple, I use Calibre (also found on in review) to convert my eBooks to the epub format and read them in Cool Reader. The epub format is possibly the most popular, and has been the easiest to use, view, and find, in my experience. Some of the ones supported are: epub, fb2, txt, doc, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, pml. While it doesn’t support every single format out there (I have yet to find one that does), it does support most of the really popular ones. There are tons of reasons why I think Cool Reader is the best way to go for a mobile eBook app, so let’s start with the basics.įirst off, Cool Reader supports a wide range of formats. How, then, do you decide which one? The simple answer is to use Cool Reader.Ĭool Reader(CR) is an entirely free App from a developer named Vadim Lopatin. That means, of course, that you have tons of options for which reader you choose to use. There are plenty of eBook readers out there, and even more than a few for mobile devices like Androids. ![]()
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