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

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/

blchinezu/pocketbook-coolreader