• Sub_dermal@beehaw.org
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    I personally use Zathura, it’s minimalistic and uses VIM bindings.

    But if you want something feature-dense, with a way of organising your library, eReader integration, file converting and more, Calibre is pretty amazing (and the actual reader part of Calibre is quite nice to use in my opinion).

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      Huh ok, I’ll have to give zathura a peek. Sounds interesting

      Yeah I love calibre. I use it to manage my main library on my server, in addition to calibre-web for managing my front end. It’s really good at managing a ton of ebooks

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      Hmmm . . . I can’t get Calibre to open a PDF on Linux. Any suggestions?

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        Did you add the pdf to your Calibre library and open it or did you open it from somewhere else?

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          Hi, sorry for taking so long to get back–I right clicked on the PDF on my desktop, and told it to “open with (calibre) ebook viewer,” at which point it just hangs and says “Preparing book for first read, please wait.”

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            Maybe try opening Calibre proper and adding the pdf to your library first? It should work the way you’re doing it, not sure why it’s hanging like that - unless there’s a problem with your Library location?

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    Personally I use SumatraPDF.

    Can read both PDFs, ePubs and even the djvu format. And its really lightweight, unlike the bloated monster that is Adobe Reader.

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      Same - for Windows it’s by far and away the best PDF reader for me. It’s shocking how far down the bloat rabbit hole Adobe Reader has gone!

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    For Android, the ReadEra app, because it’s the only darn ebook app I could find that allows a scrolling mode instead of page flip. And you can add the Twilight app also to change screen temp, and extra dim mode in the dark. It works really well.

    For e-ink ereaders, I don’t know what the best one is right now. Definitely not Kindle though. And Kobo has overdrive library integration. But e-ink in general is very nice for reading. Definitely go for 8 inches or more in screen size though if you want to read manga. Also physical page turn buttons are really nice.

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    KOReader, though most people will probably find the UI off-putting at first.

    Thing is, it’s perfect for use on an e-ink device, which is what’s it’s primarily designed for. The desktop (Linux and Mac) and Android versions are just icing on the cake, and they all work the same and can sync reading activity between them. Tons of features, options for tweaking book layouts, plugins for integration with other services, some integration with Calibre, etc. It takes the “kitchen sink” approach and I love it. I’ve found spending the time to learn it to be really rewarding.

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      Looks cool. I’ll do some research but seems like it might be possible to install this on Kindle? How would one do that…

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        I don’t own a Kindle device so I don’t have firsthand experience, but I do know that for that platform your device will have to be jailbroken. Aside from that, these are the instructions!

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    I use BookFusion. It’s a paid service but syncs the library and progress across platforms. Integrated with Calibre too, which I saw you mentioned you use in a different comment. Works great for me, but good luck finding something that works for you.

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      Ok that’s super interesting. That is much cleaner than my current way of downloading my books to my iPad, so I’ll have to check that out and see how easy it is to integrate

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      Is BookFusion a FOSS project with a paid service? I looked on their site and see no mention of it being FOSS.

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        Oh,I think you’re right. They have their Calibre plug-in which is open source I think but I think in my head I conflated that with the whole app. My bad.

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    I use Okular from the KDE suite and it can literally view everything you can think of

    There is also okular-mobile that is optimized for touchscreen use, it’s a bit buggy but it works

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    I recently removed my PDF reader and use Firefox to read PDFs. For that, I created a new Firefox user account, set it up accordingly (with a few dedicated addons, plus making manual CSS changes to the user interface). Then I created a script (in Linux) to run a file or url with this user account instead, associated the script as the default application for the .pdf file format.

    Script: firefox-reader

    #!/bin/sh
    exec firefox --profile ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.reader -- "${@}"
    

    To create a new profile, you can run Firefox with the commandline option firefox --ProfileManager. The rest is pretty much self explanatory in my opinion.