It comes with an intuitive interface but also with many cool additional features.
This e-book reader is impressively frequently updated, which denotes that its developers constantly strive to make Icecream Ebook Reader the best e-book reader, and they're pretty close to reaching that goal already. Then you may press OK and start reading the book.įBReader - Book Info Editing Icecream Ebook Reader Before actually displaying the book, FBReader will also present you with a small window where you may change various information about the selected e-book, like Title, Author, and so on. To open a EPUB with FBReader, start FBReader, locate the Add File to Library option (the second icon from left to right, on the upper toolbar of the app's interface), and select the e-book that you want to read. It's also the least intuitive EPUB reader from this list, but I've decided to add FBReader here anyway as it has been, and still is, quite a popular name when it comes to e-book readers.
Though officially Windows 10 is not supported by FBReader, I've tested it on my Windows 10 PC, and it works perfectly fine. Since the latest s table version has been released quite a while ago, in 2010, I expect it to come with stability issues and various other problems. Opening a EPUB file with Sumatra PDF is really simple: just run the program and click on the Open a Document link or press the Control+O keys. Sumatra is a highly-appreciated tool as it's simple, stable, fast, portable, and best of all, open-source.
Ignore the PDF in its name, as Sumatra PDF is a powerful tool capable of opening many other file formats of both documents and e-books than PDF, including EPUB, XPS, DjVu, Mobi, CHM, etc. Then you may double-click the EPUB file, or right-click it, and select Read to have it opened on your screen. In order to do so, just press the File menu from the upper left corner, then choose the Add to Library option. To open a EPUB file with Adobe Digital Editions, you first need to add a EPUB e-book to one of the virtual bookshelves. Anyway, Adobe Digital Editions still provides handy additional features such as extensive library management functions or the possibility to use comments and bookmarks on the opened e-books.Īfter you download, install, and launch the program, it will display a virtual bookshelf. It's surprisingly lightweight and easy to use considering that it's a product from Adobe, which usually creates more powerful and complex applications. Anyway, this issue can be solved in two rather straightforward ways: you either convert the EPUB files to a format (like PDF, XPS, DOC, RTF, and so on) that Windows, or your installed apps, can read and open, or you download, install, and use an application that can read EPUB files directly. Obviously, the latter way is also the simpler, so here are some of the best tools that let you open EPUB e-book on your Windows 10 PC, together with a few basic information about their capabilities and their main features, and the steps that you need to follow in order to view a EPUB file with each of the presented utilities. Since EPUB is a highly-appreciated file format for e-books that has also considerably grown in popularity lately, the fact that Windows 10 doesn't let you open EPUB files by itself can become a hard-to-ignore problem, especially for avid e-book readers. Even if it's the most powerful and comprehensive Windows ever, Windows 10 still doesn't offer a simple and direct, default way of opening EPUB files.