Top 10 eBook software and apps

Amazon Kindle enable users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines. It provides over 1 million books in the Kindle Store. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device. Provides apps for Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Mac, PC and the family of ereading devices

Powerful, yet beautiful and easy-to-use book organizer. Suitable for book lovers, collectors, students, teachers, schools and business libraries. Allows to organize e-books and printed books in a single digital library. Includes a built-in reader, audiobook player, format converter, metadata editor and a web server for local network access. Enables to quickly find books, including by full-text search. It's highly customizable - you can add custom fields, build a genre tree, add tags. Integrates with Amazon, Google Books and other websites to update book metadata. You can even view books in 3D.

Calibre is a free, open-source program (written in Python) for managing e-book libraries on Windows, Mac and Linux. It offers the most rich set of features, divided into the following main categories: library management, e-book conversion, synchronization with e-readers, downloading news from the internet and converting them to e-book formats, e-book viewer-reader, e-book editor and a content server for web access to your book collection. The program reorganizes book files into own structure. There are numerous plugins developed for the program by the community. However, many find the interface cluttered and unwieldy.

Default app for reading and listening to audiobooks on iOS that also features a bookstore with top bestsellers, free classics, hand-curated selections from experts and personalized recommendations. You can add your own ePub and m4b books via iTunes or the cloud. Apple CarPlay lets you listen to audiobooks while driving. Books sync across all your Apple devices. The app lets you track what you've read and what you want to read, and set your own reading goals. The reader features an "Automatic Night Theme" mode and adjustable screen brightness for a more comfortable reading experience.

Kobo is Amazon's Kindle's main competitor in the ebook market. It's a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audiobooks and e-readers. Kobo offers free reading apps for Windows and Mac computers, as well as Android and iOS smartphones - all apps can sync seamlessly. You can subscribe to the Kobo Plus or Kobo Plus Listening service for unlimited access to audiobooks and ebooks, or purchase books individually. Kobo's library offers 3 million ebooks, including new releases, bestsellers, and free classics.

Android audiobook player that simply works well (though with some limitations in the free version) and has several unique and interesting features. While playing an audiobook, you can increase or decrease the speed with a single tap and thanks to the app's widget, you can do it directly from the home screen. Visual book classification lets you see at a glance which books you've read and which are new. Uploading a cover from the internet brings the book to life compared to a plain, blank cover. Bookmarks let you mark interesting moments in the book. You can manually create a character list to help you follow the plot. And of course, there's an automatic pause feature if you fall asleep.

Choose from millions of titles on Google Play including new releases, New York Times best sellers, up-and-coming authors, and free books. Easily personalize your reading experience, pick up where you left off on your phone, tablet, or computer, and get reading today

Free e-book reader that supports multiple file formats, including ePub, fb2, mobi, HTML, RTF, HTML, plain text, doc, and more. FBReader uses its own page parsing and rendering engine - very lightweight, fast and customizable. It supports embedded images, footnotes, hyperlinks, text search, full-screen reading. It also automatically creates bookmarks so you don't lose track of where you left off after closing a book. It works on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Chrome OS. Books can be synced across devices or stored in Google Drive. For Android and iOS there are both free and paid versions. Free versions have some limitations.

Tolino relies on openness and leaves it up to you to decide which bookseller you would like to purchase your eBooks from. This way, you always enjoy the complete variety of offers from all available tolino eBook retailers. You can easily download existing EPUB and PDF eBooks to the tolino ereader and read them there; with the tolino cloud synchronization and the tolino library link, tolino offers you particularly practical functions for this.

Sigil is a free multi-platform EPUB ebook editor (think Word or LibreOffice but specific for EPUB ebooks) with the following features: WYSIWYG editing, Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support, EPUB 2 spec support with limited EPUB 3 support, multiple views: Book View, Code View and Preview View, Metadata editor, spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries, import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets.

Libby is a free app and web service (from OverDrive) for renting digital books from local libraries. Over 90% of public libraries in North America have OverDrive, and Libby can be found in 78 countries worldwide. You sign in using the library card you get from your local library. Books aren't freely available - you have to join a queue and wait for other users to make a book available before you can borrow it (as the library has a license for a limited number of copies). Libby has no paid subscriptions or in-app purchases. The app includes a book reader and audiobook player, and syncs your reading progress across devices.