You’ll find lots of ebooks online that you can buy or download for free, but if you don’t have a dedicated eReader, how can you read them? Fire up an ebook reader app on your phone or tablet. Whether you have Mobi, EPUB, or PDF files, there is an eReader app that will work for you. In this list, we have listed down 23 of the best open source ebook reader apps, softwares and tools. Open source simply means the source code of the app is provided. Read on for your best options.
Tools & Softwares
The Greatest Books
"Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it." - Markus ZusakThis site basically generates a set of top titles from a set of list available here. The calculations behind how high...
Create Your Own Ebook
"We notice eBook readers, we don't notice books." - Douglas AdamsThis guide was put together by Five Simple Steps, an independent publisher of web design books that closed in 2014, as a way of giving back to the web community.The ebook formats covered in this project...
A Smarter Way To Explore Books – Bookdigits.com
A smarter way to explore books.BookDigits is a smarter way to explore books. Their goal is to change the way you read and help you find your next favorite book. Traditional genres are too broad and vague to be useful, so BookDigits uses themes and special metrics...
What Speed Do You Read? – Staples.com
Compare your reading speed to the national average.The concept is simple - read through a set of paragraphs and click the "Finished" button when you're done. Interestingly enough it comes with an anti-cheat system, requiring you to answer 3 questions in regards to...
Sell Books Directly to Your Readers – Gumroad.com
"A lightweight, highly social toolkit for payments." - The Verge "It lets people sell anything online as easily as they can share a link to it - independently made music, crafts, writing, whatever - without having to set up an online store." - TechCrunchSell Books...
Just Good Books – Readgeek.com
Bye Bye Bad Books! We promise, we know what books you want! Readgeek knows the books you would like to read but don't know how to find them. You won't depend anymore on bestseller lists or well-intentioned tips and still find exactly what you were looking for. Far...
Read Faster!
"Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it." - William FaulknerSpritzinc.com is a reading text utility / app which allows your brain to focus and as a result, increases your reading speed, naturally. The available spritz...
LittleFreeLibrary.com
LittleFreeLibrary.com Take a Book, Return a Book - The Worldwide Movement The "Take a Book, Return a Book" is not exactly a new thing. It has been tried, tested and implemented practically all over the world with great success to encourage reading. Sprouting like...