EPUB formatting and typography
Read EPUBs with justified text, language-aware hyphenation, and working footnotes. CrossPoint also renders drop caps, small caps, and illustrations.
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Your books, on a reader you can make your own. CrossPoint is free software for compact e-readers, built by the people who read on them.
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More control over how you read.
CrossPoint is the software behind the screen. Free to install, with new features built by people who use it every day.
Custom fonts and page layout
Choose your typeface, size, margins, and line, word, and letter spacing. Convert a font you own with our font builder, or load TrueType fonts directly on readers with external RAM.
Set up custom fonts →
Library search and sorting
Browse every book on your SD card. Search by title or author, and sort by recent reads, title, or author.
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Wi-Fi transfers, Calibre, and OPDS
Drop a book into your browser or send it from Calibre. Browse OPDS and OPDS 2.0 catalogs on the reader. Away from home? Load books through its own Wi-Fi hotspot.
Get books onto your reader →
Highlights, bookmarks, and reading sync
Highlight a passage, save a clipping, or name a bookmark. Quick Resume takes you straight back into your book, and KOReader sync keeps your place across devices.
Use highlights and clippings →
Offline dictionaries
Look up a word or a whole phrase without leaving your book. Add a StarDict dictionary and use it offline, wherever you’re reading.
Add a dictionary →
Multilingual and right-to-left text
Community translations, right-to-left text, and hyphenation rules that follow the language of your book. Indic scripts aren’t supported yet.
Explore language support →
Focus Reading and page-turn controls
Try Focus Reading for a guided pace. On supported hardware, turn pages with a tilt or set up your own tap and swipe gestures.
Set up Focus Reading →
SD card plugins
Add book catalogs and download sources with SD card plugins, without reflashing firmware. Use web tools to manage books in your browser and shrink EPUB files with the optimizer.
Set up SD card plugins →Free over-the-air updates
Update CrossPoint over Wi-Fi for free on supported devices. BOOX Picco updates use USB. Follow development on the roadmap, suggest changes, or try new features in nightly builds.
Read the update instructions →Bluetooth page turners
Pair a compatible Bluetooth remote to turn pages without touching your reader. Assign short and long presses to page turns, chapter navigation, the reader menu, or clipping selection.
Pair your remote in Settings → Connectivity → Bluetooth Page Turner, then choose what each button does.
Buy on Amazon Set up a Bluetooth page turner →
Made by people
who actually use it.
CrossPoint grows through bug reports, translations, code, and conversations about what would make reading better. There’s room for you here.
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- contributors around the world
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- contributors around the world
- community forks built on CrossPoint
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- community forks built on CrossPoint
- changes in the last major release
- 126
- changes in the last major release
- devices running CrossPoint
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Find the reader
that fits your pocket.
Find an e-reader you’ll want to take everywhere. Make it yours with CrossPoint, our free, open source reading software.
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CrossPoint Sync
Reading progress across devices
Keep your place across CrossPoint and KOReader devices. View your current books, finished reads, and reading stats in the app.
Search and share highlights
Find saved passages across your books, copy clippings as Markdown, or share a passage as an image.
Connect your reading services
Update your shelves and progress on Hardcover, send highlights to Readwise, or sync your place with BookFusion and Audiobookshelf.
