Book Bazaar Reader

by Refrelent Software Lab

A free ebook reader app for Windows with EPUB, MOBI, FB2, PDF and TXT support and a built-in offline book library.

The Book Bazaar Reader is an ebook reading app for Windows from Refrelent Software Lab, and it is free to use. It can help you manage your ebook library as well. It is distributed through the Microsoft Store and was first built for Windows 8 and 8.1. The layout engine of the app uses HTML5, so richly formatted books keep their styling and pagination. The import features are very good. You can import EPUB, MOBI, FB2, PDF, TXT ebooks by just clicking on the file. Then Bazaar will import them in the app's book library for you to store. There are other ways to import ebooks also, like downloading them from OPDS catalogs such as Project Gutenberg or via a direct URL.

Features:

  • The interface is clean and simple. The library has two panes: "I Am Reading" with the books you have not finished yet and "My Books" with the whole collection, and the current page is remembered for each book. There are a variety of font faces and sizes you can pick from. Find one that suits your taste to make the reading experience more enjoyable.
  • You can also switch the reader into night mode to make it easier and more comfortable to read at night. The book reader also allows you to assign categories to your books and sort them by genre, author, title, date published or time loaded.
  • The Bazaar reader presents the ebook with a 3D paper-bending page turn effect or with horizontal panning. It gives you the feel you are looking at a real paper book. More features include a Reading Progress Bar with a live page preview, a table of contents, bookmarks, highlights in different colors, notes and text-to-speech.
  • You can change the size of the text and zoom in to make it easier to read. The app is free and ad-supported; ads are not shown in the main reading view, and an in-app purchase removes them completely.
It offers plenty of customization options and a well-organized offline library for reading ebooks on Windows.

Conclusion - Book Bazaar Reader is a capable free ebook reader for Windows. It packs a lot of useful features, including OPDS catalog browsing, search inside books, library grouping and synchronization of the library through OneDrive, gives the user ways to customize the reading experience and can be installed at no cost from the Microsoft Store.

Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 and later
x86, x64 or ARM processor

PROS
Supports a wide range of e-book formats.
Offers customizable reading settings.
Includes efficient library management features.

CONS
Free version shows ads outside the reading view.
The interface can be non-intuitive at times.
Cannot open DRM-protected ebooks.
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