What is the best ereader for desktop that can open epub files?

What is the best ereader for desktop that can open epub files?

  1. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    calibre

  2. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    calibre, unfortunately

  3. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    sumatrapdf

  4. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Foliate or Koodo. Bookworm isn't bad either.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Koodo
      koodo is fucking garbage, laggy piece of shit. foliate is nice but no windows support.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Works on my machine, but then I'm not a wintoddler.

  5. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Adobe Digital Reader

  6. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Calibre is the best but insanely slow
    Use sumatra or mupdf and only switch to calibre for the few files that will require you to

  7. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    calibre sucks so bad I wrote an ereader for the browser. epubs are zipped html + css after all. reading that shit on the desktop is kinda nonsense.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >epubs are zipped html + css after all
      wtf. So it turns out the best epub reader is fucking 7zip

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Wow, I didn't realize this. Thanks for teh info.

  8. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    https://okular.kde.org/
    >Okular is a universal document viewer developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Okular is great, but so is Zathura if you like Vim bindings and Sumatra if you are on Windows. qpdfview is also good if you want something kinda like Okular but with far less bloat. Now for dedicated ebooks (epub, mobi and such) I think Calibre, FBReader and Foliate are the best options.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >qpdfview is also good if you want something kinda like Okular but with far less bloat.
        which is kinda funny since, at least on my machine, it uses the same amount of RAM and CPU time as Okular.

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I'm currently using a convoluted solution of moon+reader on my phone viewed on my pc through scrcpy.

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    zathura

  11. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    zathura Is alright

  12. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    You listed it, dumbass.

  13. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I use premium version of Readera, I enjoy it and it's pretty fast.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >premium
      cuck

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous
  14. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Librera Reader + waydroid

  15. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Use Atril!

  16. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Zathura
    Okular
    Sumatrapdf

  17. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    FBReader. they're all kind of shit though just like the epub format in general

  18. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    dired + eww

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      isn't nov.el what you use if you are going to open epub in emacs?

  19. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Foliate as a GUI desktop reader, otherwise I'd try Okular or Zathura.

  20. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    adobe digital editions

  21. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    calibre. it's slow, has a clunky, unintuitive UI, it's bloated, has awful default settings... but for reading epubs it just fucking works

  22. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Is there any epub reader on Desktop that can handle fixed layout epubs and doesn't require you to import everything into a separate library?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >fixed layout epubs
      lmao

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        It's an important format for manga.
        I've tried a dozen different readers and none properly implement it so that the pages that are supposed to go right go on the right and the pages that are supposed to go left are on the left and there's no space between them.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Isn't all manga cbz? Where do you find manga in epub format

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            you convert them using calibre. I never seen manga or comic books in epub format.

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              Here's an example
              https://litter.catbox.moe/7g6hrd.epub

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            All commercial manga is released in epub format. Never seen any company use cbz.

  23. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    pajeet-bre

  24. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Why are fucking epub readers in the year of our lord in 2k23 still so fucking horrible and terrible. How do we fix this problem?

  25. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Thorium is all you need, a simple reader that looks good and only lets you store Epubs and read them, nothing else. Fuck that calibre ugly bloated nonsense.

  26. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    SumatraPDF.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      sounds like pajeet-ware too

  27. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    SumatraPDF

  28. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Tried calibre, horrible horrible experience
    Tried Sumatra, never needed anything else since then

  29. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    you just posted it

  30. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    sumatra for winblows
    okular for linux

  31. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    SAAR

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