This year we can say that Ebook Readers are expanding as electronic devices through which to read books in digital format as if they were real books. The most beautiful Ebook Readers are also touchscreens and allow you to use your fingers to turn the pages as you would with a normal book. Surely this is a beautiful thing and it is also one of the main functions of Apple's new Ipad. But it pays to spend from 300 to 700 Euros (in the case of an Ipad) to have a portable screen with which to read Ebook books "> Best programs to open PDF alternatives to Adobe Reader First of all, I would say that it is appropriate to download Ebooks from the internet for free.
Nothing illegal or pirated, the list of sites from which to download Ebooks for free in Italian is updated and full of books to read on PC or wherever you want.
Alternatively there are also sites to download instruction manuals and pdf guides.
The best free programs to read Ebooks on the PC are basically 7:
1) With Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari you can install the Amazon Kindle Reader extension to transform your browser into an online Ebook reader and read, from your computer, the books bought or downloaded from the Amazon store. Reading can continue even if the computer disconnects from the internet because the book is downloaded to the computer after opening it.
Kindle Reader also exists as an application for Windows 10, with an excellent perfect interface, the keys to search and turn the page, also good for reading books and documents in PDF format
2) Nook and Cover for Windows 8 are excellent alternatives to traditional programs, in the form of applications that open to full screen optimized for touch screens but also good for turning pages with the mouse.
3) Caliber is a very useful free program for reading and managing books on your PC (Windows, Linux and Mac).
Its main function however is related to the conversion of pdf files into Epub format which would be the format of the Ebooks for IPhone, Ipod Touch and IPad . Therefore, as Ebook readers often only support certain types of files, with Caliber you can also convert a simple pdf into an ebook, without difficulty and easily.
4) Microsoft Reader is the oldest of the reading software that exists. Even since 2005 and has never been updated. It allows you to read ebooks in .lit format and to read pdfs, both manuals and books. However, it is not an Acrobat Reader type software, where you scroll the pages vertically, it tries to make the reading as if you had a real book, scrolling the pages horizontally. This is the lightest program by Microsoft and, in its small way, incorporates the main features of an ebook reader including: the management of content and books saved on the PC, the ability to add notes, highlight text and bookmarks, a high resolution Clear Type written text on video. Overall, it is an outdated program, good only if needed to read Microsoft documents and .lit files, but now obsolete.
5) Those who say that reading a book on a PC is not the same as reading it on a real Ebook reader, perhaps they have not yet tried the MartView program.
In fact, a good level Ebook reader, manages to render the action of holding a book well, grabbing the corner of the page, finishing reading the last few lines and then quickly turning the page and continuing the reading. MartView is a program that manages to give this same impression even on a Windows PC. You can, using the mouse, fold the pages, turn them quickly or slowly, scroll through the documents with different graphic methods, change the orientation of the book and many other things. The graphics and animations provided by this software, MartView, are exceptional and pleasing to the eye and give the impression of truly having a book in hand . It also supports normal PDF documents. The problem of MartView, at the moment, is its graphic heaviness and, unfortunately, if you read the ebook on your computer, you have to close everything else otherwise the PC freezes due to excessive consumption of resources.
6) The Ebook reader par excellence and most used in the United States is Amazon's Kindle Reader which can be downloaded and installed for free. This software is the same that can be used on an IPhone or an Ipad and allows you to manage the Ebook electronic library on your computer, organize the covers, synchronize an Ebook reader with the PC, and, of course, read the books in full screen, also with touchscreen support for Windows 7 (and for computers that can do it). Amazon Kindle reader is probably the best book reader on PC, a standard that combines reliability and pleasant reading on the screen.
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7) Blio is an ebook reader for PC that also supports XPS and Epub files, in addition to PDFs, and makes books appear as if they were paper, with functionality for zooming, turning the pages with the mouse, for underline text or take notes. The graphics are very pleasant and the interface also allows you to view videos, photos and open links to websites. This Ebook program also allows you to listen to the reading of a book by voice. The application works on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 10, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
8) The Soda PDF Reader 3D program is also interesting for reading PDFs as if they were books.
