Starrea is a full-featured ePub ebook reader which supports highlighting, annotation, reading aloud, etc.
Perfectly renders your ePub books
- Supports images, tables, code blocks, embeded audios and videos, etc.
- Supports ePub 3 popup footnotes
"Dual-engine" reading aloud
- Supports reading aloud using your browsers, such as Edge and Chrome, so you can use their online natural voices
- Supports Windows' built-in TTS (text-to-speech) engines
Multiple color themes, dark modes included
- More than 20 background and font color themes
- Two night themes: dark gray and deep dark
- Color theme can follow system's light/dark color mode
Highlight and annotate
- Highlight text selection using 4 different colors, then add notes or comments to it
- Export your highlights and notes/comments
Innovative highlight deep link
- You can get a DEEP LINK for each of your highlights to reference them in your other notes or note-taking apps. Clicking on this kind of link will launch Starrea and lead you to where the target highlight is
- Hence, you are not restricted to Starrea's note-taking experiences any more, but you can use any note-taking app you love, while still keep Starrea as an excellent way to present the referenced original text and its context in ePub books
- Deep linking is already used in Starrea's exported note documents now. You can click on a note to view it in the book
Convenient page turning
- Quickly return to the previous position after navigating in a book, such as when browsing contents or viewing footnotes
- Right-click to preview links to other pages without losing the current reading position
- Search keywords in the current page or within the whole book and jump to results quickly
Fluent reading
- Smooth scrolling (experimental)
- Immersive (fullscreen) reading mode
- Click on images to zoom in, copy, or save
- Adjust scale (font size)
- Increase text spacing to make the text more readable
- Open multiple ePub files in different tabs
- Option for opening the last read book on launch
My bookshelf
- View all your books' covers and reading progresses and manage them
- Group, sort, and search books
- Add custom tags for books
Two Windows widgets
- MY ANNOTATIONS: Randomly displays one of your highlights and its annotation using a flashcard-like manner — notes are hidden until you click on them. This helps you to memorize what you have annotated
- RECENT READINGS: Displays your recent read books and provides quick access to them