• edinbruh@feddit.itEnglish
    7·
    13 days ago

    There’s calibre, and then there’s everything else. Also take a look koreader. You can also use koreader from calibre

    • emb@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 days ago

      I hear these names thrown around a lot. I’ve only briefly tried Calibre, and not KOReader yet.

      I’m kinda curious, what’s the difference between them and the roles they fill?

      • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        6·
        13 days ago

        Calibre is an ebook library manager with a reader built-in. Koreader is purely reader software, and it works particularly well on touch and eink screens.

  • KssioAug@piefed.zipEnglish
    7·
    13 days ago

    I really like Foliate. Great interface, easy to use, enough customization. It’s available through Flatpak.

    If you want something more feature rich and don’t care too much about UI, then Calibre.

  • fratermus@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    13 days ago

    For actual reading on linux I use fbreader. For eBook management I use calibre.

    But 95% of my reading is actually on old eInk devices (kindle, nook).

  • muhyb@programming.dev
    3·
    13 days ago

    I just use Foliate but on my current system Foliate has a weird bug for me that it cannot open any books for some reason so I’m using Readest now.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    13 days ago

    I like KDE Arianna.
    Unfortunately, while in the past (I think version 24) it would show 2 columns in portrait mode, now it only shows 1 page in the middle, which I personally consider a regression.

    Aside from that there’ve been some improvements. While in the past I had to flip pages by pressing arrow buttons at the bottom, it now supports swiping the pages, which is much nicer on a touchscreen.

  • myrmidex@belgae.social
    1·
    13 days ago

    This is a tough one. All readers I tried had something that annoyed me. If forced to read on desktop, I will use Calibre. But nowadays I prefer calibre-web to put the epub automatically on my ereader.

  • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    13 days ago

    I only read on mobile (android) using Readest but they do have desktop versions and I assume they’re just as good as the mobile version.

    They just added functionality to play audio overlays (like from Storyteller), too, which is something I’ve wanted for a while.

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    13 days ago

    If you read epubs frequently, just on your pc: foliate
    If you read epubs frequently, and want to also manage your ereader library: calibre
    If you read epubs occasionally and want the same software for reading everything: okular