/software/ lainchan / lit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neuromancer · 2025-08-03 08:41 Which program do you use to read ebooks? I can't find any the best of all was Foliate that i still use today,how you're doing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Bloggs · 2025-08-03 08:51 The best program for the task: Emacs with pdf-tools and org-noter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Meddler · 2025-08-03 11:07 Zathura. Simple, works well if you're used to vim. Here's a good introductory video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Iz4zdyRM4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wintermute · 2025-08-03 14:16 I like Zotero. It's primarily known as a bibliography manager but it also has a reader with highlighting and notes. It has a few cross- platform clients and a syncing service run by the zotero foundation with a login (although you can use WebDAV to sync as well). I'm not /completely/ in love with it though, it has a bit of a proprietary feel and the android app more so in that regard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Motoko Kusanagi · 2025-08-03 15:22 Anything good for epubs specifically? All I can find will split the book into pages for no reason, or be massive bloat that wants to organize my library. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Crazy Jake · 2025-08-03 15:55 >>11595 is it even possible to do an epub without pages in some sense ? Its a bit of a strange format and not one I'm fully familiar with but a lot of them have at least some pages forced on you I use mupdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Judge Fang · 2025-08-03 20:51 I've been using sioyek, pretty nice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsigned · 2025-08-04 02:58 >>11596 Of course it is possible. Epub is just a subset of html with some extensions. Afaik, the only thing to do with pages are "insert a pagebreak here" (rarely used in the real workd) and "this is page n°x in the paper book" (even more rarely used). As I said above, some readers allow scrolling (calibre's, and others I've forgotten the name of), but they are all bloat trying to force their library management scheme on me. >mupdf It's readable, that's about all that can be said about it. It doesn't even really respect stylesheets. Even as a pdf reader it is like kicking dead whales down the beach. I used to use it, but it shat up kerning in my documents. and let me fuarrrking scroll, jammit. This was figured out 40 years ago ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Terzibashjian · 2025-08-05 10:50 I use zathura on computer and moon reader on android. Both work great. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chani · 2025-08-07 08:58 A good, all-around e-book reader that can handle a variety of the most common formats is something that just doesn't exist. Every single one of them has something inexplicably idiotic about it for no apparent reason. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Balumba · 2025-08-07 11:39 I use calibre, it has many tools to manage my library. It also allows to host everything on server, so you can read books from everywhere. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Agent Richard Gill · 2025-08-09 01:51 >>11591 SumatraPDF https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsigned · 2025-08-09 02:16 KOReader (https://koreader.rocks/) for ereader zathura (https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/) for desktop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nanashi No Gombe · 2025-08-09 03:41 >>11591 The recommendations here are bizarre, if you liked Foliate check out Readest https://github.com/readest/readest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Titor · 2025-08-12 06:09 >>11612 This >>11613 Readest +1, I use it to read manga. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Agent Jones · 2025-08-12 06:15 >>11612 How is zathura's epub plugin? I never managed to install it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Crash Override · 2025-08-13 02:37 >>11620 I use the mupdf plugin which comes with epub support. Sometimes there will be display issues but most of the time it just werks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ivan Petrov · 2025-08-16 08:05 Bump ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wintermute · 2025-08-17 00:48 >>11592 This post made me realize that doc-view can read epub, although I can't search in the document with isearch or display the table of content. For that, I had to install nov.el. I got away from the idea of doing everything in Emacs years ago, but I'll roll with that for now. By the way I also forgot that it's possible to run SSH on a KOReader device, which is great to transfer books without using USB. - https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el/ - https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/SSH ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Titor · 2025-08-26 16:22 qpdfview mostly. Emacs and coolReader for epubs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsigned · 2025-09-17 17:37 >>11595 epub as a whole is cancer. Its literally just a packed html-website. However CoolReader makes it somewhat tolerable.