Top 15 TequilaCat Book Reader Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

TCBR (TequilaCat Book Reader) is a Java application allowing to read books on ANY mobile phone (with Java support).

The software suite is consisting of 2 parts:
1.TCBR Shell - program for Windows PC that creates JAR books.
It works on Linux under Wine.
2.JAR Books created by the Shell
Each JAR Book contains book text and viewer program for the book.

Features:

Fonts: Supports multiple fonts including Windows fonts, shows books in your language even if your phone has no national fonts. Allows for smooth fonts (if a book was created on Windows XP having ClearType on)
Formats: Directly opens TXT and FB2 from phone flash card. FB2 format supports images NEW!
Other formats (HTML, PDF, MS Word) are supported via Shell usage and converted to plain text (HTML images are shown if converting via Shell).
Text orientation: displays rotated text (clockwise, contr-clockwise) - hold your phone as it suits you best.
Autoscroll: by page, by line, smooth (by pixel) scroll
Displays pictures in text (if a book was created from HTML file) or in FB2 file
Chapter recognition: Shell auto-detects chapters and Table of Contents is added to the book.
Various hyphenation and word wrap styles
Text color of your choice
Search in book text and in internet using phone browser (via configurable search engine)
Backlight control
Keylock and password protection
Different fonts can be choosen for menu and book
Touch screens supported: tap screen to selects a menu item, scroll text or trigger a menu item bound to one of 9 screen tap areas (of 3x3 matrix)
Fully configurable controls: both in the Shell and in Java book, assign favorite actions to any key or sensor screen tap area
Flash Card support: on modern phones (supporting JSR 75), install BookReader once, then read text files or FB2 book files off flash card or phone "disks"
For phones redundantly asking for access confirmation a caching mode is available, less questions asked
Unicode (for hieroglyphic languages) and Middle East supported ...

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