

KOReader - A document viewer primarily aimed at e-ink readers
5/15/2025
KOReader
KOReader is a document viewer primarily aimed at e-ink readers.
Main features
- portable: runs on embedded devices (Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, reMarkable), Android and Linux computers. Developers can run a KOReader emulator in Linux and MacOS.
- multi-format documents: supports fixed page formats (PDF, DjVu, CBT, CBZ) and reflowable e-book formats (EPUB, FB2, Mobi, DOC, RTF, HTML, CHM, TXT). Scanned PDF/DjVu documents can also be reflowed with the built-in K2pdfopt library. ZIP files are also supported for some formats.
- full-featured reading: multi-lingual user interface with a highly customizable reader view and many typesetting options. You can set arbitrary page margins, override line spacing and choose external fonts and styles. It has multi-lingual hyphenation dictionaries bundled into the application.
- integrated with calibre (search metadata, receive ebooks wirelessly, browse library via OPDS), Wallabag, Wikipedia, Google Translate and other content providers.
- optimized for e-ink devices: custom UI without animation, with paginated menus, adjustable text contrast, and easy zoom to fit content or page in paged media.
- extensible: via plugins
- fast: on some older devices, it has been measured to have less than half the page-turn delay as the built in reading software.
- and much more: look up words with StarDict dictionaries / Wikipedia, add your own online OPDS catalogs and RSS feeds, over-the-air software updates, an FTP client, an SSH server, …
Please check the user guide and the wiki to discover more features and to help us document them.
Screenshots
Installation
Please follow the model specific steps for your device:
Android • Cervantes • Kindle • Kobo • Linux • Pocketbook • reMarkable
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