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Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by michaelmrose »

Splines wrote: post #36
favadi wrote: post #34

Anyone knows if there is a ebook reader that supports Android/Linux and can sync book/progress between machines?

It's been awhile since I've used it but Moon+ Reader on Android can sync progress to google drive. At the time the syncing wasn't super reliable, but it worked sometimes.

I have no idea if syncing reading position works because I only use it on one machine but Moon+ is awesome in other respects.

It supports Support epub, pdf, mobi, chm, cbr, cbz, umd, fb2, txt, html, rar, zip or OPDS

Its nicely customizable, takes up the whole screen when running including status area, has a night mode, can autorotate or pin the orientation.

Personally I really like using it plus calibre companion to sync files with my computer.

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by aceperry »

philonoist wrote: post #12
aceperry wrote: post #2

I totally love bookworm. The best epub reader that I've found for linux. I only wish it was in the ubuntu repos.

Bookworm is available as a PPA for Ubuntu (16.04 upwards) and other Ubuntu based systems. Open Terminal and run the following comands for installation sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bookworm-team/bookworm sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install com.github.babluboy.bookworm In case of issues related to missing libgranite package, add the Elementary PPA as shown below and re-try. The Elementary PPA can be removed after B…

I use the ppa, but doing that opens you up to security concerns. I've tried to build from source, but there are too many dependencies and I couldn't build it due to conflicting libraries.

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by eBombzor »

Looks like a very nice ebook reader. Could probably replace Calibre for 90% of users. It's already on the Arch platform so here are my thoughts on using it for 5 minutes. Rendering is via poppler which is fine most of the time but definitely not as fast as mupdf + zathura when testing a epub textbook. Definitely has some bugs (clicking on links to different parts of the book don't work for me) but it's still in early development so that's expected. Reading regular books is pretty good but there should be a preset to center text with large margins on the sides (like an article) so it's more readable fullscreen. Definitely has potential but will be sticking to zathura for now.

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by mav3rick »

jasano wrote: post #37
efiecho wrote: post #13

Very nice design and best thing, it's not an Electron app. I will definitely try this reader.

Just out of curiosity, may I ask what your bias is against electron?

Can't speak for performance but there are definitely security concerns with Electron.

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by michaelmrose »

jasano wrote: post #37
efiecho wrote: post #13

Very nice design and best thing, it's not an Electron app. I will definitely try this reader.

Just out of curiosity, may I ask what your bias is against electron?

They perform comparatively slowly and use more resources and battery power.

For example hexchat an irc client seems to use about 50-60MB of ram.

Slack by contrast out of the box appears to use 1.2GB of memory. There are at present 12 applications open on my machine. If they all used over a GB each something would be starving given that I only have 8. Note please that most machines still have 8GB or less.

Do you really not understand why people are biased against electron or are you pretending to for effect?

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by michaelmrose »

kevingrahl wrote: post #41

How does it handle huge (>500.000 files) libraries?

Good question. If you have such a library you could probably easier install the 20MB app and test and report back than others can acquire such an extensive library.

I would think calibre on a local note remote filesystem would perform acceptably.

The portion that you want readily available on mobile could be easily synced wirelessly via calibre companion. Note that you can select a query for syncing and include the current status on the wireless device in the query.

Give me all the books tagged foo AND where ondevice:false

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by ViViDboarder »

aceperry wrote: post #43
philonoist wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bookworm is available as a PPA for Ubuntu (16.04 upwards) and other Ubuntu based systems. Open Terminal and run the following comands for installation sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bookworm-team/bookworm sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install com.github.babluboy.bookworm In case of issues related to missing libgranite package, add the Elementary PPA as shown below and re-try. The Elementary PPA can be removed after B…

I use the ppa, but doing that opens you up to security concerns. I've tried to build from source, but there are too many dependencies and I couldn't build it due to conflicting libraries.

If you trust the PPA you added, does it open you up to any other concerns?
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