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Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops

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Post by floweronthehill » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 8:29 AM UTC

Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops
johnfactotum.github.io

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Post by jdlyga » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 2:17 PM UTC

Foliate is excellent! I even got it working through WSL on Windows. I use it for O’Reilly books and other epub books. It’s much easier to reach books as an epub than a pdf since the text, etc adapt to your screen. The problem was historically that epub viewers were generally bad on desktop.

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Post by nicolaslem » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 2:22 PM UTC

jdlyga wrote: post #2

Foliate is excellent! I even got it working through WSL on Windows. I use it for O’Reilly books and other epub books. It’s much easier to reach books as an epub than a pdf since the text, etc adapt to your screen. The problem was historically that epub viewers were generally bad on desktop.

I can confirm that Foliate is miles ahead of the default Gnome reader.

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Post by garyfirestorm » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 2:26 PM UTC

Is there something similar for macOS and iPadOS? All 3rd party epub readers on my iPad are substandard.

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops

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Post by worldsavior » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 2:27 PM UTC

garyfirestorm wrote: post #4

Is there something similar for macOS and iPadOS? All 3rd party epub readers on my iPad are substandard.

You can import epubs in apple books. At least in macos.

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Post by blueflow » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 3:06 PM UTC

A javascript codebase bundled with a webkit browser - is this like Electron, but lite?

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Post by paol » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 3:16 PM UTC

blueflow wrote: post #6

A javascript codebase bundled with a webkit browser - is this like Electron, but lite?

Ebooks are basically HTML, so this is one case where bundling a browser engine is going to be necessary in any case.

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Post by 8b16380d » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 3:19 PM UTC

worldsavior wrote: post #5

garyfirestorm wrote: post #4

Is there something similar for macOS and iPadOS? All 3rd party epub readers on my iPad are substandard.

You can import epubs in apple books. At least in macos.

You can in iOS as well.

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Post by yoavm » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 3:31 PM UTC

While it's a little slow due to WebKit and JS probably, I'm using Foliate on my Kobo Clara HD with PostmarketOS and it does the job!

Re: Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops

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Post by asicsp » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 3:43 PM UTC

Foliate works great for reading fiction. Customization for theme, font, etc, were nice.

I use Atril Document Viewer for technical epubs though - feels much like viewing a PDF.