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available for windows?
For Windows try SumatraPdf. It's small, highly configurable and handles pdf, epub, mobi etc etc.
The first thing this page should mention is why anyone would use this over Calibre. Calibre works for me. Why should I bother changing my setup?
BookFusion has a Calibre plugin that allows you to easily sync your Calibre eBooks to Android, iOS and Web. The benefit is that all your entire eBook collection will now be at the tip of your finger tips and your bookmarks, highlights, reading progress and eBooks would be synced across all devices.
You can learn more at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/calibre
PS: Founder of BookFusion and would be happy to hear any feedback you might have.
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With a file manager, you'll probably only be able to find a book from its author, and title. If you have a small collection, this is fine. When your collection grows though, issues start to show up. Being able to sort, and find a book based on other information becomes much more useful: date of publication, genre, custom tags, etc... While you could always integrate these in your filename/directory structure, with th…
>it's very cumbersome to manage and use Maybe if you just dump a large number of unsorted files in place and do nothing with them. With a decent file manager and an hour or so, you can add many books and symlink them to the metadata directory with no issue.
An hour? You've made my case. It takes at most a couple of minutes for importing hundreds of books in Calibre. Metadata retrieval is automatic (from the file itself and/or online). Everything happens in a few clicks.
Maybe I'm old school, but I don't understand the concept of a "library". I have directories on my filesystem(s), files in those directories, and amazingly powerful applications to navigate them (Total Commander / mc / Krusader). Why would an ebook reader even try to do the navigation for me? It should display an ebook, and I'll take care of the rest. If it's showing me the file system, it's redundant. If it's showing…
> I have directories on my filesystem(s), files in those directories, and amazingly powerful applications to navigate them (Total Commander / mc / Krusader). I think that the problem is that a file system typically represents a single type of hierarchy. Maybe you have your books in the file system arranged by topic->author->book, but other arrangements like topic->year->book, book->year (for editions) or author->book…
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?
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> However, it's all static HTML No it isn't. For example EPUB 3 supports all kinds of dynamic content including music and video and javascript.
Honestly, I wasn't aware. I'm just an old-school guy who uses EPUB to read novels and tech books :) But again, I'd just include libwebkit (or similar) with a JS engine into my app and be happy.
I use Calibre as an iTunes for ebooks from humble bundle, but this may look like a nice alternative for environments where Calibre it's too much. Thanks for sharing.
Calibre is fantastic for converting between eBook formats, but it’s a mediocre reader at best. (ITunes for eBooks is an apt description in this regard!)
BookFusion also has a Calibre plugin that will allow you to easily sync your entire eBook collection to the cloud.
More information at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/cloud-library
PS: Founder of BookFusion. Will appreciate any feedback that you might have.
Maybe I'm old school, but I don't understand the concept of a "library". I have directories on my filesystem(s), files in those directories, and amazingly powerful applications to navigate them (Total Commander / mc / Krusader). Why would an ebook reader even try to do the navigation for me? It should display an ebook, and I'll take care of the rest. If it's showing me the file system, it's redundant. If it's showing…
> I have directories on my filesystem(s), files in those directories Your library. > powerful applications to navigate them (Total Commander / mc / Krusader). Not powerful enough. Filemanagers are optimized for hierachical views and don't integrate well with filetypes. Namely, they usually don't extract data from files, like metadata, covers or previews. Though, filemanagers have started to do that to some degree. Bu…
The UI can be improved quite a bit, check out icon packs like this one: https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-calibre-th...
For me, that looks pretty good, comparable to qBitorrent or 7zip.
The last time I read ebooks on an x86 device was before Pocket PCs got color displays. Are there people who really want to do that?
I do, regularly. I read books on my phone on the go, then pick it up at a computer (and I do this across multiple computers) when I'm at a computer, and vice-versa.
Take BookFusion for a spin and let me know what you think. BookFusion allows you to easily read your entire eBook collection and sync your bookmarks, reading progress, highlights and comments across all devices. BookFusion has native Android, iOS and Web apps.
The last time I read ebooks on an x86 device was before Pocket PCs got color displays. Are there people who really want to do that?
I do sometimes. I love my Kindle, and use it almost daily, for fiction and literature. But for work and hobbies I am flooded with PDF's (some spec sheets, but a lot of actual technical books). I tried different eBook readers, tablets etc. And I have found out I prefer reading them on my hires desktop monitor, where I can google details etc. And it's there that I usually need them. Also comics. For some reason I prefe…
You are able to easily send books to your Kindle from the same app using our Send To Kindle feature.
More details at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/cloud-library
PS: I am the founder of BookFusion and would appreciate any feedback that you might have.