This is a document viewer application, originally created for usage on the
KOReader is a document viewer application, originally created for usage on the
Kindle e-ink reader. It currently supports Kindle 5 (Touch), Kindle Paperwhite
and Kobo devices. Kindles need to be jailbroken in order to install the
application. Also, a kind of external launcher is needed.
, Kobo and Android devices.
KOReader started as the KindlePDFViewer application, but it supports much more
formats than PDF now. Among them are DJVU, FB2, EPUB, TXT, CBZ, HTML.
KOReader is a frontend written in Lua and uses the API presented by the
KOReader-base framework. KOReader implements a GUI and is currently targeted
at Touch-based devices - for the classic user interface for button-driven
koreader-base framework. KOReader implements a GUI and is currently targeted
at touch-based devices - for the classic user interface for button-driven
e-ink devices (like the Kindle 2, Kindle DX, Kindle 3, Kindle 4) see the
KindlePDFviewer legacy project or - especially for the Kindle 4 - have a look
at its fork Librerator.
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Prerequisites
========
Instructions about how to get and compile the source are intended for a \*nix
OS. Windows users are suggested to develop in a [Linux VM](http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/11287/how-to-run-ubuntu-in-windows-7-with-vmware-player/) or use Wubi.
Instructions about how to get and compile the source are intended for a linux
OS. Windows users are suggested to develop in a [Linux VM][linux-vm] or use Wubi.
To get and compile the source you must have `patch`, `wget`, `unzip`, `git`, `autoconf`,
`subversion` and `cmake` installed. Version of autoconf need to be greater than 2.64.
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sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool
```
Cross toolchains are available to Ubuntu users through these commands:
Cross compile toolchains are available for Ubuntu users through these commands: