ebook / epub readers
ebook / epub readers
[Moderator note: this thread was split from the Sumatra PDF thread after a prompt for recommended ebook/epub readers.]
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Even if it is not being updated any longer, STDU Viewer (https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2045) is a program I keep in my toolset for this purpose.
It reads EPUB (is EBOOK a different format?), CBR, DJVU and PDF alright. It has some quirks, but overall it has been reliable.
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Even if it is not being updated any longer, STDU Viewer (https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2045) is a program I keep in my toolset for this purpose.
It reads EPUB (is EBOOK a different format?), CBR, DJVU and PDF alright. It has some quirks, but overall it has been reliable.
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Re: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
Before Microsoft Edge decided to move to Chromium, their browser had a built-in epub reader that many liked as well.
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Re: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
A couple of recommendations for epub:webfork wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 6:37 pm I've been very interested in being able to comfortably read ebooks on my machine lately and I've not been super happy with Sumatra's ebook reader. The text looks (to me) over-dense and it's not customizable (unless there's been some improvement in the new version).
FBReader: Last version from 2010. Customizable. Not portable.
AlReader2: portable, very customizable, but for some reason line-spacing maxes at 12.
Re: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
I'm surprised more browsers don't have an epub reader as it's primarily HTML. Firefox has an add-on that looks fairly good: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ub-reader/freakazoid wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:57 am Before Microsoft Edge decided to move to Chromium, their browser had a built-in epub reader that many liked as well.
Midas wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:58 am STDU Viewer (https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2045) is a program I keep in my toolset for this purpose.
Thanks, I'll look at those.
And yeah .EPUB is just another word for ebook. It has numerous advantages over .CHM and .KPF/.MOBI (Windows Help and Amazon Kindle) formats. My favorite feature is that it's easy to move epub files into other formats (text, word, HTML, pull out images, print-outs, etc), while other formats make it difficult.
A fairly good format comparison: https://www.guidingtech.com/9661/differ ... k-formats/
A lot of times when I'm creating documents at work, I try to do a kind of "home" document where I start out, regardless of the format it will be eventually. Lately that's been either Markdown or LibreOffice, but I'm playing with a few other options. If I was doing more publishing, I'd probably start in EPUB and then just export to other formats as needed.
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Re: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
Unless you're doing research and that research is only available as an ebook, I wouldn't use a computer monitor to read. I prefer to use my mobile device or dedicated ebook reader to read ebooks.
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Re: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
webfork already tried that Icecream: viewtopic.php?t=24223...
(As did I, BTW -- viewtopic.php?t=21807)
Re: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
Oh, never mind then! ![Cool 8)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
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Re: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
My last test was some time ago but it was also *very* poor, so I've avoided their programs. I generally don't return to a software group after getting burned, hence the Problematic Software list Midas pointed to.
Re: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
A cool CLI/TUI EPUB reader I found in a list shared by lintalist (thanks!) is epr.
Some of the features:
- read last file by default
- remember position
- lanuch by history search. e.g type epr juli to launch best match in your reading history of "juli" e.g. "Romeo and Juliet.epub"
- launch by number e.g. epr 2 launches second most recent file in your history.
- regex search.
- TOC.
- view images using default viewer.
- set width per book.
- dump epub (export epub text).
- etc.
Screen readers should be supported by any modern console.
Not portable by default (%HOME%\.epr) but you can work around that by launching it through this command (through a batch file or a shortcut for example):
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Maybe split these posts into a "epub/book readers" thread or something?
Some of the features:
- read last file by default
- remember position
- lanuch by history search. e.g type epr juli to launch best match in your reading history of "juli" e.g. "Romeo and Juliet.epub"
- launch by number e.g. epr 2 launches second most recent file in your history.
- regex search.
- TOC.
- view images using default viewer.
- set width per book.
- dump epub (export epub text).
- etc.
Screen readers should be supported by any modern console.
Not portable by default (%HOME%\.epr) but you can work around that by launching it through this command (through a batch file or a shortcut for example):
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set "HOME=C:\My CLI\epr" && "%HOME%\epr.exe" %*
Maybe split these posts into a "epub/book readers" thread or something?
Re: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
I had not considered that a CLI window could make a good ebook reader, but that makes a lot of sense. If you can customize the fonts and backgrounds a bit (as many tools will), you could have a pretty great reading tool. Excluding images of course.
Yeah, I think the ebook topic has gone on long enough to represent a different subject. I'll try to separate them.
Re: ebook / epub readers
You can do that using the console/terminal, for example, cmder or ConEmu. Either from within the app or without.
Re: ebook / epub readers
"A tool to manipulate ePub files."
https://github.com/pgaskin/epubtool
https://github.com/pgaskin/epubtool