Cool Reader
(ver 3.0.47-3)
Freeware


ePUB is a new publishing standard targeted at reading 
books on tablets.  It is an alternative to PDF files 
(in which the text is a photo of the original book), 
that allows the user to choose their own text fonts 
and background image.  ePUB is commonly chosen by 
e-book authors who have not published on paper. It is 
also a popular file format when converting paper books 
to e-books, and there are hundreds of free *.epub 
books available from the Internet. 

The downside to ePUB is that it is a XML encoded 
document, so it must be opened with a special viewer 
such as Cool Reader.

Cool Reader does -not- require installing.  Simply 
unzip the file to any directory, and launch the 
executable "cr3.exe".  You can add your own TrueType 
fonts to the folder "fonts", and you own background 
or texture JPG files to the folders "backgrounds" 
and "textures".  The actual e-book (files ending with 
the extension ".epub") can be stored anywhere.


NOTE: This is the last Win2k version.