Designed and developed by entity of the same name, CBR Reader is a software utility that is intended to help users view and read CBR files. CBR is the abbreviation of Comic Book Reader, which is another type of eBook file format. This format, as is suggested by its name, is primarily used for comic books that have been created as eBook or converted to eBooks. This tool is a simple and straightforward utility that is intended to help you open, view, and read .CBR files; and it does exactly that.

It is a simple to use, easy to implement utility and most of the functions within this tool can be executed with the help of keyboard short cuts. This feature enhances the usability and user-friendliness of this tool. Another significant functionality offered by this tool is the ability to save the image files in any eBook, supporting the CBR file format, as separate image files. And for this purpose, the tool offers support for various image file formats such as JPEG, PNG, BMP, and JIF. You can avail this tool as a free to use software application. And the simplicity and user-friendliness of this tool ensures that you can start reading all the comic eBooks that were downloaded and lying around idle in your system or drives, all this while.

A Windows platform based utility, you can implement it in Windows 2003, 2008, 7, XP, Vista, and Server versions. Although the tool is, in itself, a freeware utility; it comes with adware attached to it. This is regarded as one of the major limitations in downloading this tool. This aspect seems to eclipse the otherwise beneficial and good software.