Bonzai Reader
A book reader and manager (for bd, comics, mangas) and a photo viewer for desktop and mobile. Support image archives (zip, rar, 7z), books formats (CBZ, CBR, CB7) and a huge amount of image format (jpg, png, tga, ...).
The software will be available for Linux, Windows, Android and possibly Mac OS.
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Please see below the features currently available, followed by some screenshots and the technology we're using.
Features
- Book manager
- Automatic book discovery and library management
- Reading progression automatically saved
- Last book read view
- Library browser and book info: cover thumbnail, num pages, status, ...
- Book reader
- Japanese reading mode (reading from right to left)
- Webtoons reading mode (vertical continuous reading)
- Zoom modes: full width, full height, fit to screen, no zoom, adjustable zoom
- Double page detection
- Page thumbnail browser
- Book editor (not available on Android)
- Re-organize pages: move & delete
- Device (phone & tablet)
- Library synchronization from and to the device: reading status, ...
- Book transfert to device, with automatic conversion to cbz for optimal reading performance
- MTP device detection
- Book & picture formats
- Book access
- Local filesystem
- FTP support & streaming
- Various
- Multilingual support (english, french, ...)
- 32 and 64 bits exe on Windows
- Android apk (tested on Android 5 & 6)
- Compatible but not tested on Linux and Mac Os.
Screenshots

Book collections

Book files

Browser filter

Browser help
List of browser options to filter books, shortcut #

Browser menu

Device connection dialog

Device browser

Device connected

Book on device detection & Copy to device

Browsing collections
All screenshots taken from a Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact

Browsing books
Technology
We're using
Scala 2.12, Java 8, Bonzai engine,
Lwjgl 2,
Apache commons (compress, vfs),
sevenzipjbinding,
junrar (
fork),
jmtp (
fork),
SBT,
sbt-android,
Android SDK,
Launch4j,
Git,
Eclipse and some icons from
Sympletts gallery.