18 October 2011

Foliant eBook Reader


While its unlikely that Amazon will release Kindle app for Symbian there a couple of good ebook readers combined with services like ManyBooks and Project Gutenberg can fill the gap.Foliant is one such eBook reader and a promising with nice set of features and good interface.

 The features include
  • format support EPUB, FB2 and TXT
  • complete library, grupirovka by author, genre and other parameters
  • search and download books from the Internet
  • trained support True Type fonts
  • turn on the display 90, 180, 270 degrees, support for the accelerometer
  • opportunity to comment on and rate books
  • Work with ZIP archives like folders, support for GZip archives
  • built-in English-Russian dictionary with the touch of a translation
  • user-friendly menu with support kinetic scrolling
  • support for the main character WIN-1251, ISO-8859-5, UTF-8, KOI8R, DOS
  • three modes of paging of the book: Kinetic scrolling, page-flipping stroke, page-flipping in the zones
  • hyphenation (supports English and Russian hyphenation rules)
  • detailed set of formatting text
  • support profile settings
  • backlight control (only Nokia and SE)
  • Russian, Ukrainian and English localization
Download the app from Official Site[Russian]