Name: Readest: EPUB & PDF Reader
Author: Readest

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Readest: EPUB and PDF reader with notes and translation

By Irfan Rosli

News editor

Paginated or scrolling reading with page-turn animations
Ten file types, from EPUB and PDF to CBZ and Markdown
Up to four books open side by side
Highlights, bookmarks and structured notes you can export
Browse OPDS catalogs and connect to Calibre or Calibre-Web
Text-to-speech with offline voices and Android Auto support

What Readest is and who it suits

Readest is an open-source ebook reader for people who read a lot and want their books, notes and reading position to stay with them across devices, according to the listing. It opens most common ebook formats in one app, including EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, CBZ, TXT and Markdown files.

The features fall into four groups: how a book looks on the page, where books come from, how notes are kept, and how the text is read aloud or translated. Readers who work through several books at once, or who study a text closely, are the people the feature list is aimed at.

Page layout, fonts and display settings

You can read in paginated mode, where each screen is a page, or in continuous scrolling mode, with page-turn animations in either. Fonts, themes, line spacing, margins and column layout are all adjustable.

Vertical text is supported for CJK books. The listing says the display is built for e-ink screens, with contrast adjusted for slow-refresh panels. Up to four books can be open at once in side-by-side panels, which suits comparing editions or working from a source while writing.

Finding books in catalogs and home libraries

Readest can browse and download from OPDS catalogs and public libraries. If you keep a Calibre or Calibre-Web server, you can connect to it, and the listing says covers and metadata come through with the books.

Once books are on the shelf, you can sort them into custom bookshelf groups and run a full-text search inside any book to find a passage by its wording.

Highlights, bookmarks and exporting notes

Highlights, bookmarks and structured notes are saved against the text they refer to. You can copy a highlight together with a deep link that opens the book at that passage, and export your annotations from the app.

The notes and reading progress are described as following you across devices, so the same annotations can be picked up elsewhere.

Text-to-speech, translation and lookups

Text-to-speech uses voices you can download for offline use, and the listing says it works with Android Auto, so a book can be read aloud in a car. Translation covers a single sentence, a full page, or an entire book.

While reading, you can look up a word or topic in Wikipedia or a dictionary without leaving the page you are on.