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Reading
Just like using media player software to access your home media library on a PC instead of physical devices, your computer can be a versatile platform for reading a wide range of digital documents. This includes books, magazines, catalogs, brochures, reports, presentations, booklets, manuals, restaurant menus, novels, newsletters, comics, and manga. This however, shouldn't be confused with ebooks, see E-reader page for that.
- Popular formats
- Before diving in deeper, as mentioned above see E-reader page for ebook file formats such as EPUB, FictionBook/FB2 or MOBI.
- Comic Book Archive file (CB7, CBR, CBT, CBZ); which is essentially ZIP or RAR archives and it's used to store multiple images, they most commonly include JPEG or JPEG 2000 files.
- Portable Document Format (PDF)
- DjVu
Document viewer software[edit]
- Desktop software;
- SumatraPDF
- CDisplayEx
- ACBR
- Websites;
There are several websites out there replicating the experience of reading via focusing things like page turn effects, graphical elements like shadows in the gutter area, sound effects, and other interactive elements for better immersion and enhancing the reading experience compared to document viewer software which usually lack these things.
- And also there are game room simulations.
