Book Viewer

Reading EPUB, MOBI, FB2 e-books and DOCX documents right in Total Commander

Type: Packer (WCX), Lister (WLX)
Version: 1.0.0.6
Files: EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, PDB, FB2, DOCX, ODT …

Open a plugin zip in Total Commander (Enter) and it installs the plugin itself. Each plugin comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

What's new

Book Viewer is a Total Commander extension for viewing and reading e-books and documents without any further dependencies. One DLL contains a Lister plugin, which shows the book information with the cover on F3 and lets you read the book, and a packer plugin, which lets you enter the book like an archive with Ctrl+PgDn.

Features

Book information: title, author, publisher, language, format, word count and the cover in a panel whose height you change by dragging.
Reading with a choice of font and size; the Force font option applies one font to the whole text, otherwise headings are bold and larger.
Book contents as an archive: for EPUB, DOCX and ODT the original files from the container, for FB2 and MOBI the cover, images and HTML. Always also _info.txt with metadata and _book.txt with plain text.
EPUB 2 and 3, FB2 and zipped .fbz, MOBI 6, KF8/AZW3 including joint MOBI6+KF8 files, PalmDOC .pdb with encoding detection.
DOCX, ODT and old DOC (Word 97 to 2003): text, headings and metadata.
The Lister dark mode of Total Commander 11 is picked up automatically.
Books with DRM and old MOBI with HUFF/CDIC compression do not open; only the information is shown.
Only text is displayed, images from the book are available through Ctrl+PgDn.

Keys

Key	Action
`Ctrl++` / `Ctrl+-`, `Ctrl`+wheel	larger / smaller font
`Ctrl+0`	font back to 14 points
Space / `Shift`+Space	page down / up
`I`	info panel
`F7`	search in text
`N` / `P`	next / previous file
`Ctrl+PgDn`	open the book as an archive

News (in Slovak)

1.0.0.6 – prvé vydanie / first release

Lister (WLX) – F3 v Total Commanderi

Zobrazenie informácií o knihe: titul, autor, vydavateľ, jazyk, formát, počet slov, obálka.
Čítačka s výberom fontu a veľkosti písma (6–96), voľba Force font.
Panel s informáciami (I) s meniteľnou výškou (ťahaním deliča) a rovnakým písmom ako čítačka.
Ovládanie: Ctrl +/-/0 a Ctrl+koliesko, medzerník, F7 hľadanie, Esc, odovzdávanie N/P/F1–F12 Total Commanderovi.
Nastavenia v BookViewer.ini (alebo %APPDATA%\BookViewer\); automatický tmavý režim (TC 11+).

Packer (WCX) – Ctrl+PageDown

Kniha ako archív: text (_book.txt), metadáta (_info.txt), obálka, obrázky a vnútorné súbory kontajnera.

Podporované formáty

EPUB 2/3, MOBI, AZW, AZW3 (vrátane MOBI6+KF8), PDB (PalmDOC), FB2, FBZ, DOCX, DOC (Word 97–2003), ODT.

Build

64‑bitová aj 32‑bitová DLL, build.bat zostaví, otestuje a zabalí dist\BookViewer-<verzia>.zip.

Obmedzenia

Knihy s DRM a staré MOBI s HUFF/CDIC kompresiou sa neotvoria (zobrazia sa len informácie).
Obrázky v texte sa nevykresľujú (dostupné cez Ctrl+PageDown).

English summary: First release. Total Commander Lister + Packer plugin for EPUB, MOBI/AZW/AZW3, PDB, FB2/FBZ, DOCX, DOC and ODT with a configurable reader, book info panel with cover, and archive-style access to text, images and internal files. x64 and x86 builds.