# About TDE Ebook Reader

TDE Ebook Reader

TDE Ebook Reader is a TQt port of FBReader, an e-book reader for Linux/Windows XP PDA/UMPC/desktop computer. TDE Ebook Reader supports several e-book formats: ePub, fb2, chm, rtf, plucker, etc. Direct reading from zip, tar, gzip and bzip2 archives is also supported.

TDE Ebook Reader is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.


How To Start

TDE Ebook Reader looks for ePub, fb2 and OpenReader books in directories listed in the Book Path option. First of all you need to set this path. Open the options dialog (just click on in the toolbar) and change the value of Book Path option in the Library tab. This option contains the list of directories containing *.epub, *.fb2, *.orb or archive files. Directories in the list are separated by colons.

Open library (click on ), select a book from the list and read it.

To read a file in another format, you need to add it to the library. Start add to library dialog (), select a file and edit the file information. Next time you can open this file using library ().