[HN Gopher] Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease
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Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease
Author : ingve
Score : 506 points
Date : 2024-07-19 05:48 UTC (17 hours ago)
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| Buttons840 wrote:
| Does it manage my "library" for me?
|
| I can open PDFs on every OS I've ever used. Like, just open the
| file, find a PDF file in some directory and open that PDF file
| and see a render of the PDF.
|
| I've never found anything that can do the same for ebooks without
| also trying to manage my "library". Like, if I just want to peek
| at a random epub file it will add it to my "bookshelf"
| automatically and makes that a very prominent part of the
| program.
|
| Can I use this to just open an epub file?
| exe34 wrote:
| koreader is very polite about this, unlike calibre.
| Bayes7 wrote:
| Check out sioyek, it's great and can open epubs like normal
| pdfs:
|
| https://sioyek.info/ https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek
| flobosg wrote:
| Sioyek uses the MuPDF engine, which supports EPUB:
| https://mupdf.com/
| Ringz wrote:
| I stumbled over it but didn't installed it because the
| website doesn't mention the ebook functionality.
|
| "Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on technical books and
| research papers"
| zeke_the_cat wrote:
| Nightmarish with a tablet.
| specproc wrote:
| I like foliate, certainly one of the slicker options out there,
| but yes it does have the behaviour you describe.
|
| I do have need of a library, but there's not much point for me
| if it's just one or two types of document. I've just moved to
| the new Zotero 7 beta, which has epub support, has always
| managed PDFs and web snapshots, and since Zotero 6 has
| supported rich annotation.
|
| Perfect setup for me. One library containing all my notes,
| citations and reading.
| skydhash wrote:
| Zathura and okular can do it, as well as Sumatra on windows,
| but they suffer from ugly defaults. The best reader is koreader
| (kobo device in my case) as it let you customize the reading
| experience.
|
| I tried creating a reader (macos) based on mupdf (koreader also
| used it) and it's definitely possible to have an epub viewer. I
| also dislike bookshelf type software if they try to manage the
| files as well (a simple database can be fine). So far. I just
| use these to check the epub file and do the reading on the kobo
| instead (or convert to pdf if I want annotations (ipad)).
| II2II wrote:
| It's worth noting that KOReader is available for desktop
| Linux users, both as a Debian package and AppImage. The
| interface is better suited to touch screens though. I suspect
| that is why noone has bothered to port/build it for other
| desktop operating systems.
| graemep wrote:
| Its what I use on a Linux tablet because of the better
| touchscreen UI. Foliate did not work as well.
| joveian wrote:
| Zathura will by default keep a history and your position in
| each document, which I personally don't like (I want it to
| start from the beginning each time) but you can change this
| with 'set database "null"' in the config file. I tried
| zathura for pdfs a while ago but went back to evince due to
| the nice feature of showing all search results in a sidebar
| when you search. Unfortunately evince doesn't support epub.
| My zathurarc so far is: set database "null"
| set adjust-open "width" set scroll-wrap false set
| font "monospace light 24" set statusbar-home-tilde true
| set window-title-home-tilde true set window-title-page
| true set guioptions "v" map [fullscreen]
| <PageDown> scroll full-down map [fullscreen] <PageUp>
| scroll full-up map [normal] <PageDown> scroll full-down
| map [normal] <PageUp> scroll full-up
|
| The font option just seems to cover the interface font (which
| is tiny if you don't set it) and guioptions "v" means no
| default status bar but always a vertical scroll bar. Page up
| and down use viewable pages instead of the default document
| page.
|
| I was also just looking for an epub reader due to this Humble
| book bundle on game design that mostly only has epub:
|
| https://www.humblebundle.com/books/all-about-gaming-mit-
| pres...
| lf-non wrote:
| Foliate's core function is an ebook reader and not library
| management. Once installed you can double click your epubs to
| open them on foliate - it will not move around your stuff.
|
| There is a library view in the app but it is mostly a history
| of recently accessed files.
| pjerem wrote:
| Ironically, the best ebook reader that just worked like you
| said was Microsoft Edge when it had its own engine, before it
| became "Chrome but even worse".
| freddie_mercury wrote:
| Calibre works exactly the way you suggest, so I'm not sure why
| you haven't found it.
|
| It comes with an app called ebook-viewer that doesn't do
| anything except view ebooks. It doesn't automatically add it to
| the calibre library management.
| Scaevolus wrote:
| Calibre's built in ebook viewer is very ugly.
| xangel wrote:
| I use it for everything but actual reading.
| johnchristopher wrote:
| > Calibre works exactly the way you suggest, so I'm not sure
| why you haven't found it.
|
| JFC, that's not how the installation and the first run of
| Calibre works at all. I'd write "I'am not sure why you think
| people would think calibre is first a manager library and not
| a book reader after installing it" but I'd be lying.
| karolist wrote:
| I think Calibre advocates forgot what it's like to setup it
| for the first time and what a messy ugly process it is for
| new timers. A containerized version needs VNC access to set
| it up and perform some un-intuitive UI actions
| https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-
| calibre/#applicati...
|
| I've used https://www.kavitareader.com/ but it's not
| perfect either, this space could be "disrupted" by a Plex
| like product with opensource + licensed offerings but the
| target market is pretty small I think.
| exe34 wrote:
| nix-shell -p calibre
|
| I'm not sure what the container is for...
| OscarTheGrinch wrote:
| Yeah I'm currently running Calibre, which works fine for my
| needs, but my gripe is that it takes up around 1gb of space
| on my tiny old system.
|
| Can someone please tell me the diskspace requirement for
| Foliate?
| vetinari wrote:
| Foliate itself is about 12 MB.
|
| However, it needs flatpak runtime. If you already have
| different flatpak apps, this is not an issue, it is going
| to be shared with them, but if this is going to be your
| first-and-only flatpak app, you need to add few hundreds
| MB.
| TiredOfLife wrote:
| Calibre reader default to auto changing the opened file.
| squidbeak wrote:
| But it brings a densely featured library manager along with
| it. The OP seems to just want something to open books.
| alias_neo wrote:
| I love Calibre, even calibre-web, which I can use as an ebook
| store by modifying the URLs in my Kobo eReader so that I can
| download ebooks from my server directly from the eReader over
| WiFi.
|
| I use Calibre to manage my collection, create book covers if
| I need to for non-boo k documents, web for organising and
| occasional looking up of things, and eReader for reading.
| 9dev wrote:
| I'm actually working on something like this:
|
| https://github.com/project-kiosk/kiosk/tree/v3
|
| I'm still deep in the trenches, though. That project is like my
| personal zen garden of deadline-free software development, so
| don't expect a release soon. Happy if someone would be
| interested in contributing, though :)
| adrian_b wrote:
| On Linux, I prefer to use MuPDF for just opening any epub file.
|
| That was originally a PDF reader, but it has been working for
| some time also with epub files.
|
| It renders the pages not only very fast, but also better than
| any other epub reader that I have tried (all the others seem to
| make worse choices about the relative sizes of various page
| elements).
| bmacho wrote:
| > I can open PDFs on every OS I've ever used.
|
| I can't do that, on windows, or linux. I _loved_ the experience
| that evince on ubuntu gave me for comics /manga some years ago
| (what I want: continuous pages, no menu or scrollbar visible,
| centered, fixed width, variable width, scrollbar on edge hover
| to show progress), and nothing that I've tried comes _remotely
| close_.
|
| I was able to come close with HTML + CSS so I am partially
| content.
|
| - - -
|
| A recent big failure of mine is to find a music player on
| F-Droid, to listen to albums, that - is capable
| to play a song, - is capable to seek in the song -
| doesn't need access to every media file ever on my phone, only
| the actual file (either by popping up the file chooser, or the
| file is opened from an another program)
|
| I've checked at least 15 of them, and I think it is possible.
| I've found multiple examples that can do two (video players
| that don't need access to every file, can go forward/backward
| but refuse to play songs, also music players that don't need
| access to every media file, but can't jump to a position). I
| eventually had to give up on this one.
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| I'm pretty sure VLC (from f-droid) does what you want. It
| might prefer to have full file access, but you can just deny
| that and just open files from a file browser or whatever.
| bmacho wrote:
| Is it working for you? It is not working for me, it keeps
| demanding permissions. It might be something specific to my
| phone, but also unlikely, since there _are_ video and audio
| players that can play videos and audio without _any_
| permission at all.
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| Just tested, TLDR yes it works.
|
| Steps:
|
| 0. Uninstall VLC (I just did this to reset its
| permissions+config)
|
| 1. Install VLC (3.5.4 from fdroid)
|
| 2. Open VLC
|
| 3. It'll start with a splash screen, click next.
|
| 4. Next screen is VLC asking what permissions you want to
| give it. Pick the leftmost of the 3
|
| 5. Finish the setup wizard
|
| 6. It prompts for notification permission, which I
| allowed
|
| 7. You should be at a screen titled "Permission not
| granted", with 2 buttons. Click the right button to pick
| a file
|
| 8. Use the system file dialog to pick a file
|
| 9. It plays
| bmacho wrote:
| I don't have "2 buttons" on the screen titled "Permission
| not granted", and no file dialog. Also not working, when
| asking VLC to play the file from another program. Must be
| a bug or incompatibility somewhere. Also this must be the
| reason why I wasn't able to find a music player on
| F-Droid then :| Thank you for checking!
| vetinari wrote:
| Just be aware, that music player without file access
| won't be able to traverse/list directories, so playlists
| won't work. This is a limitation of any file-picker based
| file access (e.g. flatpak applications on linux,
| accessing files via portals have exactly the same
| limitations). As the sibling comment says, it is possible
| to run vlc this way, but be aware of the limitations.
| carlosjobim wrote:
| FBReader does this on MacOS
| Matl wrote:
| Calibre has a 'standalone' ebook viewer component.
| weaksauce wrote:
| maybe there's a firefox extension you could use that when you
| set the default file opener it works like that? or drag and
| drop it on firefox with an extension.
| reify wrote:
| I used to always install Foliate when I installed a new linux
| distro though it only opens epub and not pdf's. The default on
| linux is Evince for Pdf.
|
| Koodo is the way to go
|
| However, more recently I have been using "Koodo" reader and
| library for both epub and pdf
|
| It has a great visual library too. I only use Koodo now.
|
| https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader
|
| http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/koodo-reader-bin
| dsr_ wrote:
| It might be the most awesome software in the world, but if I
| can't read the majority of bug reports, it's not something I
| can feel comfortable using.
|
| (This is not a flaw in the software, this is a flaw in me: I
| don't know how to read -- I'm assuming it's Mandarin Chinese,
| but I can't even reliably tell that.)
| Milner08 wrote:
| If thats really such an issue, you can just get the browser
| to translate them for you?
| TechDebtDevin wrote:
| You have dozens and dozens of translation tools at your
| disposal that take <10 seconds to solve that problem.
| dsr_ wrote:
| You want me to trust random translation tools on the
| internet for technical issues?
|
| No.
| squigz wrote:
| Not to be rude, but if that's the case, and you're unwilling
| to use "random" translation tools like Google Translate, what
| is the point of this comment? Not everyone in the world
| speaks English. Do you want them to learn English and post
| bug reports in English for you?
| synergy20 wrote:
| I have tried nearly all the epub readers mentioned.
|
| Koodo is now what I use, it renders the best for me, I feel
| like I'm reading a paper book, which is great to me, the fonts
| and theme are great.
|
| Calibre's epub reader is painfully slow to start, and it does
| not look that good either.
|
| I wish other epub readers can have better fonts and color.
| relyks wrote:
| This is my favorite e-book reader to use on my desktop :) (it's
| great for epubs)
| rkwasny wrote:
| I'd love to have a beautifully designed version of Calibre for
| macOS. I'd even pay for it! It would be fantastic to have a sleek
| way to organize my ebook collection, especially if it could also
| store papers from Arxiv etc.
| mattkevan wrote:
| I would love this too. Calibre is amazingly useful and
| powerful, there's nothing else like it, but my goodness the UI
| is ugly.
|
| I've come to appreciate it as some sort of outsider art anti-
| design, defiantly refusing to follow any notion of design
| consistency and aesthetics. But still, a nicely designed
| version would be amazing.
| karolist wrote:
| Would you mind listing some of the killer Calibre features
| you'd expect to see in an MVP?
| skydhash wrote:
| Cover grid, virtual libraries, customizable details pane
| (select the fields to show), filtering (both tree and
| search), virtual libraries (collection), export template,
| metadata editing and embedding (write to file).
|
| Thats the few stuff I used regularly.
| jkingsman wrote:
| Not the OP, but my library management is 90% tagging, format
| conversion, metadata fetch and editing, and format tune-up
| (font subsetting or stripping fonts, fixing covers, etc.).
| Virtual libraries keep me organized based on tags.
| karolist wrote:
| Hey, which program do you do that now with, Calibre or a
| set of separate tools?
| dsego wrote:
| How do you feel about the built-in Apple Books?
| __rito__ wrote:
| I used to read all ebooks on desktop when smartphones didn't
| enter the market. Now I read on Kindle and a dedicated tab.
|
| There's only one kind of book I read on my laptop now-
| programming books PDFs. To code side by side. That's all. And PDF
| is better for rendering equations, graphs, code with syntax
| highlighting, and figures.
|
| I use EPUB for "flat" essays, novels, storybooks, poems, etc.
| i.e. non-text/non-technical stuff.
|
| And I use my Kindle or my tab always for that.
|
| For the once or twice need of opening EPUBs on my laptop, I just
| use Okular.
|
| Won't install something via Snap/Flat or compile it for that one-
| off kinds of use.
| nyanpasu64 wrote:
| A Kindle is a physical device and a tab is a tablet (I
| initially thought it was browser tab)? My family sat/stepped on
| two Kindles (crushing the screens to oblivion) growing up and
| nobody has dared buy another one since; I don't know if it's
| time to reconsider.
| consf wrote:
| Align well with the strengths and limitations of various
| devices and file formats
| anentropic wrote:
| I bought a Kindle for this (programming books and PDFs) but was
| quickly disappointed
|
| The device itself is pleasant enough
|
| But I should have guessed, the experience for managing any
| content bought/downloaded from outside Amazon is almost
| unusable
| __rito__ wrote:
| > the experience for managing any content bought/downloaded
| from outside Amazon is almost unusable
|
| _Not at all_.
|
| I buy EPUBs from all kinds of vendors, across multiple
| languages. I also have many downloaded from Standard Ebooks
| [0].
|
| All EPUB works fine, and provides great experience- as long
| as a file does not contain one of the following- custom page
| illustrations, syntax highlighted code, graphs, charts, maps,
| math equations, color comicstrip etc.
|
| Just use PDF in tablet or laptop for arxiv papers,
| math/programming books, etc.
|
| Use Kindle for recreational reading- like novels, poetry,
| essays, etc. I am a huge fan of reading since basically
| learning to read. And I love Kindle! Am a user for last ~10
| years.
|
| [0]: https://standardebooks.org
| anentropic wrote:
| the EPUB files work fine
|
| and it's possible to load PDFs on there
|
| my complaint is that the tools for organising and managing
| the library are crap
| __rito__ wrote:
| Yeah definitely. It's very slow, and the screen refresh
| rate is sometimes frustrating.
|
| But that is how it manages to hold its charge for a full
| month!
| dantondwa wrote:
| I wish this worked on Windows too. In general, I'd love to see
| all those lovely GTK4 apps on Windows, they look so nice.
| boredhedgehog wrote:
| There's Alexandria(https://github.com/btpf/Alexandria), which
| was inspired by Foliate and supports Windows and MacOS.
| rrishi wrote:
| oh this is great. there's still room for improvement but it
| satisfies my basic requirements very well.
|
| thanks, this is quite useful for my macos.
| shortrounddev2 wrote:
| Did you try wsl?
| thaumasiotes wrote:
| > Enjoy features such as auto-hyphenation
|
| Is this a feature of the app? Can I bundle an ebook with my own
| hyphenations and ensure that only those hyphenations will appear
| when Foliate displays the ebook?
|
| Kindles have incredibly awful hyphenation. It seems to originate
| from somebody confusing the algorithm for _hyphenation_ -- which
| is "there's a big list of hyphenation points for every word in
| existence, and when you want to hyphenate a word, you look it up
| in the list and choose the best available hyphenation point" --
| with the algorithm for compressing the master hyphenation list,
| which involves representing the list as a priority-ordered set of
| rules for where a hyphen should appear based on a few surrounding
| letters.
|
| But the result is that Kindles are constantly trying to hyphenate
| words based on a compressed list of words that doesn't include
| the word that needs to be hyphenated, with results like
| "Q-ingjiao".
|
| This could be easily solved by checking every ebook for words
| that don't appear in the master list, and bundling a custom list
| of just those words with every book, falling back to the master
| list in the common case where a word that needs to be hyphenated
| isn't present in the custom list. But I guess nobody cares.
| newzisforsukas wrote:
| foliate is pretty good for epub. I have been using it for several
| months, and definitely prefer it to fbreader, calibre, etc. It is
| much faster than those. It has a good TTS interface as well.
| __gotcha___ wrote:
| been trying to use it on windows. Its a great app on linux.
| __gotcha___ wrote:
| Been trying to use it on windows. Best app for linux.
| asimovfan wrote:
| i need something like this for the chromebook / android..
|
| the only app that works fine with chromebook is its own gallery
| viewer, but has no bookmarks no annotations
|
| in android theres only xodo which is paid and proprietary
| nabla9 wrote:
| I have been testing this for 15 minutes.
|
| - enforces two page layout. I don't see how to fix it. advice
| does not fix it:
| https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/discussions/1166
|
| - can't open all pdf that other viewers can.
|
| - zoom does not work, settings do nothing.
|
| Result of the 'style' is smudge view you can't fix.
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| I'm using this app's EPUB engine for my iOS/macOS app, Manabi
| Reader, which is for learning Japanese through reading (but I
| want to expand to more languages and general purpose use soon)
|
| https://reader.manabi.io
| rubymamis wrote:
| Linux needs more beautiful apps with attention to UX - the same
| kind of care that developers of macOS apps put into their apps.
| That's why even when I'm building an app for Linux[1] I start by
| trying to make the best macOS app first.
|
| [1] https://www.get-plume.com
|
| EDIT: Spelling errors.
| karolist wrote:
| Beautiful app, how did you deal with Qt licensing if I may ask?
|
| One nit regarding website, toggling dark mode causes a video
| change that has some ugly flashing, I think you could improve
| this by recording the video without dropshadow and adding the
| shadow with CSS.
| rubymamis wrote:
| Thanks! I'm using the LGPL version of Qt, since I'm not
| changing Qt's own source code I can release my app has
| closed-source easily with dynamic linking. I could also
| release it with static linking with no problem (in my
| understanding), if I allow people to download the object
| files as well so they can link them to any version of Qt they
| want (but that's a bit too much for now).
|
| Thanks for your suggestion, I'll consider it. But what do you
| mean by ugly flashing? Is it the instant background change
| that turn you off?
| karolist wrote:
| Yes, the background changes instantly, but video
| replacement is slower, therefore for an moment the old
| video shadow background appears distinctly from the site's
| background color. This is on M1 Max 64 with latest Chrome.
|
| Also, there's a problem with responsive text reflow on your
| personal site, I've only noticed because I'm using a tiling
| wm.
|
| I've made videos to showcase
|
| https://gofile.me/7cmOh/e1dTClPiT
|
| https://gofile.me/7cmOh/VyHzagGGa
| rubymamis wrote:
| Thanks for taking the time to make the videos!
|
| I think for the first issue, with the flashing, it seems
| to flash to you, but it's just the theme being changed to
| light, isn't it? Or you are specifically only talking
| about the way the video container doesn't fit the rest of
| the page while it's loading?
|
| Regarding the second issue, good catch! I'll fix that.
| Thanks!
| karolist wrote:
| Ha, I think you're right, it's the empty container with
| grey background visible whilst the video is being
| changed, I actually went frame by frame to confirm. It's
| getting silly and super nitpicky so feel free to ignore
| :)
|
| https://imgur.com/a/Z0Yrl8h
| rubymamis wrote:
| Well, I care about tiny details like that, so always
| appreciate such comments (:
|
| I'll try to see what I can do about it to make the
| transition easier on the eyes, so thanks for the
| feedback.
| adonese wrote:
| Is there a nice ebooks reader on android. The options I keep
| running to are rather very disappointing
| alexejb wrote:
| KOreader is quite nice after some setup.
| gabelschlager wrote:
| I quite liked ReadEra. Scans your phone for all epubs, allows
| grouping and organizing them, but most importantly, has a good
| looking, customizable reading interface.
| DaSHacka wrote:
| I use Librera FD from f-droid[0], I think it works great though
| I don't typically read books on my phone (instead opting to use
| an e-ink kindle).
|
| [0] https://f-droid.org/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/
| TiredOfLife wrote:
| Moon+ reader for non technical books
| hgyjnbdet wrote:
| Mupdf.
| mattkevan wrote:
| I've not been happy with the state of desktop ebook readers for a
| while, so I recently built a simple web-based ebook reader. It's
| designed to be a quick and easy way to read books while also
| providing decent layout and typography.
|
| Although it's a website, books and reading histories are saved in
| the browser's local storage and it doesn't track anything.
|
| Here's the link: https://www.minimalreader.xyz
| rrishi wrote:
| any plans to add pdf support?
| azdle wrote:
| Hey, might I suggest adding a public domain example book? I
| tried adding a couple of different epubs that I happen to have
| on my phone, but it just says "Please select an EPUB file."
| when I do. (Using mobile Firefox.)
| mattkevan wrote:
| That's a good idea, thanks for the suggestion.
|
| It seems to be quite picky about which books it accepts
| sometimes, will have to look into that :)
| GEBIRGE wrote:
| Foliate is really good with the security aspects of rendering
| ebooks. See the author's foliate-js library project
| (https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate-js?tab=readme-ov-
| fil...).
|
| I've recently written an article about the dangers of ebooks.
| Maybe it's of interest to some: https://gebir.ge/blog/every-
| trick-in-the-book/
| nathansherburn wrote:
| Thanks for the write up!
|
| I just wanted to chime in to say the Foliate code is really
| beautifully written too.
|
| I was able to hack together an epub audiobook reader by running
| a custom version of foliatejs in Microsoft Edge (which has an
| amazing and free text to speech engine called "read aloud").
| It's VERT hacky but you can try it here:
| https://nathansherburn.github.io/foliate-js/
|
| Works on mobile and desktop Edge.
| joshstrange wrote:
| The app looks beautiful, but I can't unsee the clipped buttons at
| the top and bottom on the left. Why wouldn't you use the same
| border radius as the window? Or have the window not be rounded?
| mikae1 wrote:
| For KDE Plasma users that dislike non-native looking GTK apps I
| can recommend https://apps.kde.org/en/arianna/
| throwoutway wrote:
| Looks beautiful! While I mostly read on kindle, this makes me
| want to setup a new Ubuntu install. Haven't had that feeling in a
| while
| codethief wrote:
| My favorite thing about Foliate:
|
| > Add bookmarks and annotations. Reading progress, bookmarks, and
| annotations are stored in _plain JSON files_ , so you can export
| or sync them easily with any tool or storage service.
|
| > The data for each book is stored in a JSON file named after the
| book's identifier.
|
| > How are identifiers generated? For formats or books without
| unique identifiers, Foliate will generate one with the prefix
| foliate:, plus the MD5 hash of the file.
|
| Finally, someone recognized the benefit of using file hashes for
| ID purposes and my PDFs no longer get modified when I annotate
| them!
|
| Now I just wish music playlists used hashes, too...
| explosion-s wrote:
| Maybe I'm not understanding, but wouldn't using the file hash
| to keep track of things make it really tricky if the file is
| modified in any way? E.g. when annotating a PDF it would lose
| all previous data associated because the hash would change
| TuringTest wrote:
| I guess they'd use a hash of the book contents, not the whole
| file?
| ericjmorey wrote:
| You end up with the ebook file and an annotations and
| bookmarks file. I'm assuming that the program would just
| look in the same directory as the ebook file or some
| configurable location.
| braiamp wrote:
| > Reading progress, bookmarks, and annotations _are stored in
| plain JSON files_
|
| The file is not modified.
| cl3misch wrote:
| I think they mean that the hash in the JSON record does not
| match the PDF file anymore, after the PDF has been changed
| by some other program.
| kylebenzle wrote:
| I agree but it seems the original PDF is not changed but
| you are right, if it is edited directly and renamed then
| it will fail to load the JSON.
| mook wrote:
| I download still-running fiction from the internet and read
| them locally, and periodically replace the files with
| versions with more chapters. It does not sound like the
| workflow would work for me.
|
| (This also means hashing the contents wouldn't work.)
| p0w3n3d wrote:
| This looks like a decent PDF reader too, especially with Adobe's
| decision to cease shipping the Acrobat Reader to Linux
| inSenCite wrote:
| This look pretty neat, wish there were some decent ebook readers
| for Android that can handle both pdf and ebpub....I was looking
| into moon reader but it requires an obnoxious breadth of
| permissions that seems very odd. Calibre is still my go-to on
| windows
| dsr_ wrote:
| Have you tried KOreader? https://koreader.rocks
| nvllsvm wrote:
| I use KOReader to read epubs on Android, but not PDFs. Being
| geared towards eink devices, KOReader lacks the smooth
| panning+zooming one would typically expect in an Android PDF
| reader. I've settled on using Bubble2 when I need to read a
| PDF, though I'd prefer to use my laptop when possible.
| casenmgreen wrote:
| Can't view images.
|
| This is because they are in webp format.
|
| I have support for this format disabled in browser, because I
| know of no simple native viewer on Linux, so I in effect cannot
| save such images, because I cannot view them.
| Lex-2008 wrote:
| ffplay?
| adrian_b wrote:
| Firefox works fine as a native viewer of the saved webp images
| on Linux, if you associate the file extension/file type with
| it. Also Chromium/Chrome can be used for the same purpose.
|
| The only disadvantage is that the browsers are slower and they
| have much more inconvenient user interfaces than the dedicated
| image viewers, for functions like zoom and pan or passing to
| the next or previous image in a directory.
|
| An alternative is to use the movie player "mpv" as the native
| webp viewer. This is much faster and it has the advantage of
| easy navigation in a directory with webp images and of easy
| zoom and pan (you may need to edit the mpv configuration and
| bind the ZOOMIN and ZOOMOUT commands to whatever keys you
| prefer).
| kaanyalova wrote:
| Every image viewer i know of on Linux supports webm, do you
| have libwebp installed?
| rabbitofdeath wrote:
| I love this on my laptop - but struggling for iOS - particularly
| iPad - any good suggestions? I just want to read books, keep my
| place and not have any ads -is this that hard?
| dmd wrote:
| The built in Books meets all those criteria.
| leobg wrote:
| Voice Dream Reader. Using it for 10+ years. Haven't found
| anything that comes close.
| sqeaky wrote:
| Does it have a dark mode?
| giraffes wrote:
| Is there something like this for Windows?
| garyfirestorm wrote:
| I installed snap version of Foliate on Ubuntu20.04. And it failed
| to work for me (when I open a valid epub, it is just blank). I'm
| so disappointed when I see something that I badly want and it
| doesn't work.
| ntnsndr wrote:
| I love this app! I recently went shopping for Linux readers and
| came right back to Foliate for its common sense and feature-
| richness beneath a clean UX.
| beginnings wrote:
| its written in javascript, I dont want javascript apps on my
| system
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