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Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by lulouie »

dmm wrote: post #7
lulouie wrote: post #2

I'm using Linux and trying to find a e-reader recently. Here is what I tested on Arch: Calibre: Failed to open Okular: Ugly, cannot modify margin bookworm: No two-page view, only scrolling-mode, and scrolling-mode cannot get the reading progress zathura: too simplify resulting in not know how to use lector: cannot recognize epub...... Buka: cannot open the book. (I don't get the logic flow, create a list first, then…

> Calibre: Failed to open Perhaps this says more about Arch than it does Calibre.

yep, is because Arch (basically because qt5 upgrade...), and with the issue on it: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63051

$ calibre

Fatal Python error: PyQt5.QtCore: Unable to embed qt.conf

[1] 13321 abort (core dumped) calibre

At that moment, I didn't have time to workaround on it :(

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

#12

Post by lulouie »

baybal2 wrote: post #9
lulouie wrote: post #2

I'm using Linux and trying to find a e-reader recently. Here is what I tested on Arch: Calibre: Failed to open Okular: Ugly, cannot modify margin bookworm: No two-page view, only scrolling-mode, and scrolling-mode cannot get the reading progress zathura: too simplify resulting in not know how to use lector: cannot recognize epub...... Buka: cannot open the book. (I don't get the logic flow, create a list first, then…

Ever tried Evince?

I test it on macOS, it can't work will with epub from Kobo :(

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

#13

Post by dsr_ »

lulouie wrote: post #2

I'm using Linux and trying to find a e-reader recently. Here is what I tested on Arch: Calibre: Failed to open Okular: Ugly, cannot modify margin bookworm: No two-page view, only scrolling-mode, and scrolling-mode cannot get the reading progress zathura: too simplify resulting in not know how to use lector: cannot recognize epub...... Buka: cannot open the book. (I don't get the logic flow, create a list first, then…

The epubreader addon for Firefox is not perfect, but it is pretty good. It would be better if it would:

- reflow on window size change

- allow me to pick any system font to read in

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

#15

Post by r3bl »

lulouie wrote: post #11
dmm wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Calibre: Failed to open Perhaps this says more about Arch than it does Calibre.

yep, is because Arch (basically because qt5 upgrade...), and with the issue on it: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63051 $ calibre Fatal Python error: PyQt5.QtCore: Unable to embed qt.conf [1] 13321 abort (core dumped) calibre At that moment, I didn't have time to workaround on it :(

Ah, too bad. It's the crappiest of the bunch UX-wise, but nothing comes close to it feature-wise.

I don't use it to read (I have an e-reader for that purpose), but I'd be lost without Calibre for ebook management.

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by ayoisaiah »

lulouie wrote: post #2

I'm using Linux and trying to find a e-reader recently. Here is what I tested on Arch: Calibre: Failed to open Okular: Ugly, cannot modify margin bookworm: No two-page view, only scrolling-mode, and scrolling-mode cannot get the reading progress zathura: too simplify resulting in not know how to use lector: cannot recognize epub...... Buka: cannot open the book. (I don't get the logic flow, create a list first, then…

Bookworm definitely has a two-page view. I'm using it on Elementary OS

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

#19

Post by ayoisaiah »

agumonkey wrote: post #6
lulouie wrote: post #2

I'm using Linux and trying to find a e-reader recently. Here is what I tested on Arch: Calibre: Failed to open Okular: Ugly, cannot modify margin bookworm: No two-page view, only scrolling-mode, and scrolling-mode cannot get the reading progress zathura: too simplify resulting in not know how to use lector: cannot recognize epub...... Buka: cannot open the book. (I don't get the logic flow, create a list first, then…

foliate seems a great thing, but /usr/bin/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate .. come on

This scheme of naming binaries is popular amongst Elementary os apps. Maybe that's were the Dev took the idea from.

I don't mind it, and if it bothers you, you can easily alias it to something else

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

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Post by dmm »

lulouie wrote: post #11
dmm wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Calibre: Failed to open Perhaps this says more about Arch than it does Calibre.

yep, is because Arch (basically because qt5 upgrade...), and with the issue on it: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63051 $ calibre Fatal Python error: PyQt5.QtCore: Unable to embed qt.conf [1] 13321 abort (core dumped) calibre At that moment, I didn't have time to workaround on it :(

Ah, the joys and pain of a rolling release :)

Sorry for the snarkiness in my previous comment, if you get the chance perhaps you can look into helping with this issue. Contributing to the distributions I use has taught me a lot about the tools I use every day.

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