Firefox with some extension when in a pinch.
Otherwise, Calibre.
You could look at the screen, but there’s also braille terminal support.
Some people do tts but that’s questionable, even if you don’t recognize that audiobooks aren’t reading, why burn power doing tts when you could just dl the mp3s instead and make it easier on yourself.
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: okularI 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.
Seconding this. I use Foliate for epub, and Okular for the rest.
There’s calibre, and then there’s everything else. Also take a look koreader. You can also use koreader from calibre
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?
You already received a reply to this, but I recently had both installed and also recently reviewed my apps to uninstall duplicate-purpose apps.
KOreader looks like what comes on a Kindle, Nook, etc. I have it loaded on an old Kindle 4th Generation I inherited from my Grandpa. If you like eBook readers, this one is for you. Librera is for people who are Android users, especially those who download and store books on their devices. It follows more typical Android design conventions and functions more like a full eBook suite vs a reader tool.
I think I’m going to go with KOreader for my uses, but have immense admiration for the developers of both.
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.
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For actual reading on linux I use
fbreader. For eBook management I usecalibre.But 95% of my reading is actually on old eInk devices (kindle, nook).
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.
That seems like a promising app. I was using Librera for Android, which also handles just about every format and has a lot of settings to play with. But Readest seems like that, plus with a nicer, less clunky look and feel.
I host a Grimmory server, and Readest’s koreader sync works really well with it.
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.
I use Zathura. Not really meant to be an epub reader (ie missing ways to change the font)—afaik it just converts it to a pdf then displays the epub using the pdf engine. But it works fine for my purposes and means I can use my preferred pdf reader for epubs too.
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.
I mostly use Foliate, but I actually do most of my ebook reading on my phone.
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.
It is web based, but I really enjoy using the flow epub reader.
Calibre isn’t terrible and comes with a reader that can open books without adding it to the library.
