Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by Jerry2 » Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 4:02 AM UTC

Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
babluboy.github.io

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#2

Post by aceperry » Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 4:10 AM UTC

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

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Post by _emacsomancer_ » Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 4:13 AM UTC

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.

there does appear to be a ppa: https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm/#install

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#4

Post by javchz » Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 4:20 AM UTC

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.

Re: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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Post by ChristianGeek » Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 4:24 AM UTC

javchz wrote: post #4

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!)

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Post by sdrothrock » Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 4:25 AM UTC

javchz wrote: post #4

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.

I was really interested after this comment if only because Calibre really is an iTunes for ebooks:

1. It has updates ALL THE TIME

2. It has a billion features and I only need one (moving books to/from the device)

Unfortunately, after looking over the feature list and realizing that it's for Linux, I realized that this is more of a replacement for Books on OS X -- a local ebook reader.

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Post by donatj » Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 4:27 AM UTC

Ooh, nice. I’ve used Calibre for years, it’s fully featured but god help me it is ugly as sin.

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Post by asicsp » Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 4:27 AM UTC

looks cool! so far I've been using FBreader and Mcomix without fiddling too much into settings

going through the features for bookworm, I didn't know I wanted some of those (ex: annotations, metadata/tags mainly to make it easier to search later on, etc)

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#9

Post by Causality1 » Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 4:30 AM UTC

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?

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Post by fake-name » Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 4:35 AM UTC

Causality1 wrote: post #9

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 read almost exclusively on a x86 device: A Windows Tablet.

This is almost entirely because Windows 8 has the best touch-screen browser available on any platform: Internet Explorer Metro Edition (from a UX perspective, the actual browser internals are horrible). I've also written all my own server-side componentry[1].

1: https://github.com/fake-name/ReadableWebProxy