Aozora Bookshelf is an e-book viewer that enables to read more than 9,000 books posted on Aozora Bunko.
Benefits:
- My Bookshelf
By adding your favorite books to My bookshelf, you can build your own book collection. Books in My bookshelf can be read offline.
- Japanese Text Composition
Aozora Bookshelf allows you to change text direction. And Aozora Bookshelf can display ruby text.
- Graphical User Interface
Aozora Bookshelf makes you feel like reading books in the real world with a bookshelf interface and a page flip animation. On a touch panel display, you can flip a page with your finger.
Features:
Aozora Bookshelf is composed of Bookshelf Mode, Book Mode, and Browser Mode.
- Bookshelf Mode
The bookshelf mode is a mode to find a book to read. You can select a book from My Bookshelf or Aozora Bunko.
My Bookshelf
About 10 books are pre-registered to My Bookshelf. Books selected from Aozora Bunko will be automatically registered. Registered books are saved on a local hard disk and can be read offline.
Aozora Bunko
You can find books posted on Aozora Bunko from bookshelves of 'catalog', 'new posts', and 'access ranking'. Clicking a book title opens it in the book mode.
- Book Mode
A book selected in the bookshelf mode is displayed as a book in the book mode. You can customize the view by changing the settings such as font family, font size, or ruby. The book mode automatically saves the reading page number for the next time.
- Browser Mode
The browser mode can display a book in the browser style. It can also show web pages.
System Requirements:
Windows
- Processor: Intel® Pentium® III (Pentium 4 recommended), Intel® Pentium® III (Pentium 4 recommended)
- Memory: 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)
- Runtime Environment: Adobe AIR 1.5 or later
Mac OS X
- Processor: Intel® Pentium® III (Pentium 4 recommended), PowerPC G4 1.0 GHz or faster
- Memory: 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
- Runtime Environment: Adobe AIR 1.5 or later
Linux:
- Processor: Intel Pentium III (Pentium 4 recommended)
- Memory: 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
- Runtime Environment: Adobe AIR 1.5 or later
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