32 Mac Apps similar to BookReader - utility that lets you open and read different e-book formats

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BookReader is a utility that lets you open and read different e-book formats. The app has support for the following formats: ePub, FB2, DOC, RTF, RTFd, xHTML, Webarchive and TXT. To be honest, the list of supported formats isn't great, and it is missing a few important formats such as PDF and Mobi.

I did my testing of this app exclusively with ePub files, because that is the only e-book format I had at hand. BookReader lets you open your ePub files straight from your Mac or from iTunes, but I have read user reviews that state that this feature won't let you read the books, just import them. The problem may be that this program can't open DRM-protected books, and those purchased through iTunes are protected. I opened a file that didn't have DRM protection and it was opened just fine.

BookReader features a nice-looking book shelf. All the books that you import will be displayed there with their artwork, if it is included. You can double click on books to launch the reader.

The reader, which can be used in full-screen mode, did a great job of loading my sample ePub file. Pages were turned smoothly and the whole experience was very nice.

This application has support for Retina displays, which should make text look quite well thanks to the superior resolution of those displays. Most of the basic features are available, including hypertext links, highlighting, bookmarks, and text search.

Full-screen mode
Retina support
Good feature set
Smooth reading experience

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32 Mac Apps similar to BookReaderFree Office Tools

eBook Reader is a handy Mac application that, as its name clearly states, helps you read e-books (electronic books) in a simple manner. This piece of software can prove to be quite useful if you are looking for an easy way to read e-books in the English language and plain text format.

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This program was created, as its name clearly implies, for book collectors. Anyone who is dealing with a large book collection knows how it difficult it is to find out if a certain publication was borrowed or if it was purchased in the first place.

Freeware

eReader is an easy-to-use Mac application that can help you read e-books (electronic books) that you might download from the eReader website. With the help of this piece of software you can quickly load any e-book and navigate through its contents in a very simple and intuitive manner.

Google Book Downloader

Google Book Downloader is a tool for downloading digital books from books.google.com. Give it the URL or ID of a Google Book and it will create a PDF of that book. Some books can already be downloaded from the web, but many cannot. If you see a book that has a full or limited preview but no download, Google Book Downloader can download that-or at least the parts you can read on the web. Google Book Downloader is not operated by, sponsored by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Google.

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Simple Comic stays very true to its name and offers an intuitive way of reading comic book files. Cbr, Cbz are some of the formats supported by the application and are in fact image archives (Rar and Zip respectively), so Simple Comic combines the functionality of both image and archive viewers.

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Comic Collector

This utility was designed for comic book collectors who wish to easily create an inventory for their compendiums. Comic Collector features a straightforward interface, provides you with an efficient search utility, and offers you a very simple way to import information regarding your books.

Open source

calibre is an open source Mac utility for managing your e-books. With its help, you can read and convert your favorite e-books, fetch metadata for any of your electronic books, download the latest news articles, and so much more.

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theLibrarian is designed to help you manage your book collections conveniently in one place. The tool allows you to catalog books and associated documents, so you can reach their content and retrieve related information with ease.

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Sort, catalogue and organize your book collection. Add the selected files and modify their names, descriptions, etc. Assign personal indicators, query online databases and import information to fill the forms. Change the page styles, fonts, and sizes of the texts.

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Audio Book enables you to convert various types of eBooks or iBooks to audiobooks in the AIFF and MP3 format. The application comes with support for over 50 robot voices, including male, female, and neutral, as well as 38 different languages.
Working with Audio Book is a breeze; just add PDF, EPUB, RTF, TXT, HTML documents or iBooks, select the language and voice, and then click on the Convert button. Batch-conversion is supported in the full version, but you can also convert individual documents via the contextual menu or through the Convert button. The list of resulting audio books will be displayed in a panel to the right of the main window. You can right-click on them and choose several options: show in Finder, play (in iTunes), add item(s) to iTunes library, or delete. Speaking of the main window, it includes the main area to view your docs as icons and a pane to select the language, voice, talking speed, and a button to test reading. The neutral voices sound like androids; some of them are highly melodious and others are mixed with audio effects.
All things considered, Audio Book is quite a powerful application that sports a clean and uncluttered user interface. It offer support for a decent number of e-book formats, including EPUB, but only two output formats - AIFF and MP3. Overall, it can be easily operated and resulting tracks can be sent to iTunes with two clicks.

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Bookpedia is a Mac program that comes in handy to anyone who is dealing with a large book collection and wants to easily catalog it. This desktop utility is also a quicker alternative to searching for book information online from your default web browser.

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Work with the Address Book database in Mac OS X 10.2 or higher by opening and managing single envelopes based on its entries. The utility works with individual files or in a batch mode and provides detailed descriptions of current address parameters. Printing options are available.

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Organize the content of your Mac Address Book. Scan the entire database and identify similar or identical contacts, then automatically or manually remove them. Preview the contacts in a special window before removal to add some of them to the list of exceptions.

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Booxter is a Mac application that comes in handy to people who wish to easily and quickly catalog their movie, music, comics or book collections. The program is packed with plenty of useful features, helps you print or export the stored information, etc.

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Contact Organizer

Contact Organizer is intended to clean your address book of duplicate contact entries. Moreover, this tool can find any issues related to name formatting. The application is very easy to use as most of the operations are carried out with the help of a wizard.

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This program was created for people who collect comic books and require an easy way to inventory their collections. ComicBookLover enables you to organize your collection with just a few clicks, allows you to read your favorite comic books directly from its interface, and much more.

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QuickMark - QR Code Reader

Automatically scan barcodes and process them on your Mac. Generate digital combinations and send them to barcode printers. Interpret different coding systems and check the codes in formats like Quick Code, QR Code, Data Matrix, etc. The utility supports auto updates.

Commercial

Address Book Clearout

Address Book Clearout is intended for organizing your contacts. In this regard, this application can find and delete not only identical but also near-duplicate entries. The tool always comes in very handy as having a messy address book is quite common, mostly due to manual entry of repeated data without noticing or as a result of faulty contact synchronization.

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This utility enables Zinio users to read the magazines they acquired from their shop. The application comes with a straightforward interface, lets you sort your publications according to your needs, offers you various reading options, and is free of charge.

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Cisdem ContactsMate

Cisdem ContactsMate is an easy-to-use contact manager. The application is designed to help you create new contacts, search within the existing list of contacts, organize your contacts into groups, edit already saved contacts, and back up your contact list to avoid losing important data.

Commercial

E-Book Cover Icons

E-Book Cover Icons is a utility that allows you to customize your e-books folders with suggestive icons. The icons are generated on-the-fly from your book cover images. The program supports the highly popular E-Book formats EPUB, EPUB3, and FB2. It also generates book previews for you to take a quick look.
 

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Convert Microsoft Outlook emails to MSG, OFT and Winmail.dat formats and read Outlook messages on your Mac. View attachments and extract appointments and calendar events. Open rich-formatted email messages with attached hyperlinks, images and tables.

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Simplify and optimize business and payment operations. Work with an environment for creating, editing, sharing, updating, and filing invoices. Integrate a custom background, check out standardized formal templates, type in numbers and credentials, etc.

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Templates for iBooks Author Free

Enrich the built-in library of iBooks Author. Incorporate 10 new themes with customized colors, fonts, page designs, and other elements. Select them in the same menus as the standard themes, customize the visuals by adding text and images, directly upload the results to iBookstore.

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DrawnStrips Reader - The Best Comic Reader

DrawnStrips Reader – The Best Comic Reader could not have a more descriptive (and self-praising) name. So, you have probably guessed right: this tool lets you read any kind of comics, including manga. However, it could also read any other type of documents if it were necessary. Unfortunately, it does not come with proper help documentation, which made me miss some of the features at first glance.

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Private Contact

Private Contact is a contact management tool that allows you to encrypt your contact information to keep it secure on your Mac. Encryption is optional, though, so you can use this app to simply add contact information and manage it. Contacts can be added individually, or if you keep your contact information in Address Book, you can import it from there. This option is available from the File menu. A new window will pop up with all your Address Book contacts. You can simply check those that you want to import, or click on the Import All button.

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World Book Notepad

Create documents in the word processing application providing a visual interface stylized after a notebook page. The program supports basic editing, copying and pasting along with templates for report generation, essay writing, etc. Detailed statistics are viewed optionally.

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CHM files are frequently used for application documentations and feature a table of contents, an index, and text searching option. Unfortunately, Mac OS X doesn't bring you a default viewer for this type of format. For this reason, RootRise Technologies developed the "Read CHM" program.

Freeware

Barnes & Noble eReader

Barnes & Noble eReader is a e-book reader for the Mac. It is available on many other platforms, and Barnes & Noble has released their own e-book reader called Nook. The application for the Mac isn't given as much attention as the other platforms, I believe. I found it not very intuitive and, although it has a good set of features, I don't think I will be using this to read on my Mac.

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Comic Life is a Mac program that enables you to design your own comic book, from the comfort of your home. The application is packed with numerous project templates, works with many image formats, supports multiple output profiles, and allows you to print your comic books directly from its main window.

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Murasaki - EPUB Reader

View the content of various EPUB files from the desktop of your computer. Automatically process the data from a selected container and access a navigation menu, change backgrounds, fonts, and sizes of the text, etc. Use a scrollable wall structure to read.

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Access and modify the contents of EPUB documents. Select between book view mode or HTML view mode. Create EPUB files by inserting your text into a new document and saving it as EPUB. Edit paragraphs, choose between bold, italics, underlined, and other fonts.

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