The Acrobat eBook Reader (a.k.a Glassbook Reader) is a free software program for reading electronic books on your laptop or desktop PC. The Acrobat eBook Plus Reader (a.k.a Glassbook Plus Reader) sells for $39 and offers additional functionality not found in the free version.

• Elegant, full-color display of ebook pages, including Adobe PDF documents
• Two page display for reading.
  
• Sub-pixel font rendering to improve the clarity of onscreen text
• Convenient buying and downloading of ebooks
• Text highlighting and annotating ebook passages
• Full-text searching
• Bookmarking pages
• Display rotation for laptop computers

The Glassbook Reader has three components:

• Bookstore, where you buy ebooks
• Library, where you organize your ebooks and choose books to read
• Reader, where you read the ebooks you own or borrow
• Convenient buying and downloading of ebooks

Open Standards:

• All Glassbook products include support for the EBX and PDF eBook standards, assuring owners of Glassbook Readers a choice of publishers, booksellers, and libraries.

Supported Platforms:

• The Glassbook Reader is available for Pentium-class computers running Windows 95, 98, 2000, and NT 4.0 and Macintosh computers running Mac OS 8.6 or later.

Acrobat eBook Plus Reader Additional Features:

• A dictionary you can search and an automatic lookup capability for definitions of words, people, and places from inside e-books
• Annotations
• Giving and lending of e-books to other devices

• Adobe eBook Bookstore site