On this page I try to compare some software-programs for reading eBooks. Please keep the following in mind: The compare bases on my suggestions of a good reader - but everybody has own suggestions of it!
The rating begins with one star * = bad till five stars ***** = excellent.
For me personal is a reader important which can display the partly lot of images in my eBooks in a high quality.
Function / Program-name | Sumatra PDF 3.1.1 | Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.3 | Calibre 2.76 | Icecream Reader 4.33 | FBReader 0.12.10 |
| Text alignment | ***** | ***** | ***** | ***** | *** |
| Indenting of the 1st row in a paragraph | * | ***** | ***** | ***** | ***** |
| Show empty rows | * | ***** | ***** | ***** | ***** |
Tables from word processing | * | ***** | ***** | ***** | * |
| Image quality | ***** | * | *** | **** | **** |
| Performance | ***** | *** | ***** | ***** | **** |
| Other | PRO: very fast, also for PDF CONTRA: Page count depends from the size of the program-window | PRO: also for PDF, fix page count CONTRA: nerved requests on every closing if file shall be copied into library | PRO: a lot of settings CONTRA: no page count (only a kind of percentage), change the ratio of images | CONTRA: partly "comical" translations into German, Page count depends from the size of the program-window | PRO: also on Android available, fix page count, a lot of settings CONTRA: some overaged, Text is centered every time |