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Ooh, nice. I’ve used Calibre for years, it’s fully featured but god help me it is ugly as sin.
I've created 80+ ebooks using Calibre, but it's too over-featured for casual ebook reading. I've used IceCream for that but I'll give Bookworm a look.
You also don’t use Photoshop for browsing your images, it’s possible but it’s not what it’s made for.
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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FBReader was my go-to eReader app for a long time, but in the last few years (since they went closed source) they haven't added any useful (-to-me) features, but have added several advertisements (in the form of popups and in the menu). Still looking for an alternative
That's a legitimate complaint. I just paid the money to go premium to remove ads. I've been using it to read books since my Nokia 770 and it has everything I need from an ebook reader so I'm reluctant to change. There's a fork of FBReader on F-Droid called simply 'Book Reader' which is being actively developed (last release 2019-02-08.) Might be worth trying out. Git repo is here: https://gitlab.com/axet/android-book…
No FB2 support, not very useful.
Anyone knows if there is a ebook reader that supports Android/Linux and can sync book/progress between machines?
I’m not sure why people compare it to Calibre here. Calibre is an insanely full featured management, editing and metadata filling software for ebooks and not build as a minimal reader. I guess the main use case is to send ebooks to your reader device from Calibre (Like a Kindle) and it’s doing that very well especially if you invest time in setting it up and using the right plugins for your use case. You also don’t u…
No FB2 support, not very useful.
What’s FB2 in this context?
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 c…
But I don’t have direct access to my library the next few days.
Calibre can handle libraries much larger than mine as long as you remember to close the tag browser and such (takes waaay more time to start Calibre if tag browser is opened).