epy VS foliate

Try Epy CLI Ebook Reader

Hey there here is baca, epy's lovely sister. Built using the awesome textual project.

However, if you don't need all the bells and whistles of Foliate and Koreader, and you are willing to carry out some trials and errors, consider exploring other simpler options like epr/epy, in Linux you can use any terminal of your choice, whereas in Android probably you'll be better off using Termux (a simple pip install epr-reader should do).

Sure, i use epy[1] and every month i d/l my books from amazon that i have bought, dedrm[2] through calibre and save the epubs to a folder. Its not a particularly arduous task.

When i want to read i have an alias setup along the lines of:

epy "$(fzf)"

its a nice interface ;-)

Now i don't often read full books in the terminal, BUT i do like being able to reference bits that i remember at a VERY quick speed. I recently was talking to somoene about biases we bring to statistics and could remember reading a great anecdote about it, using rga[3] i was able to bring up the passage VERY quickly in the terminal

Like most great cli tools, its about the workflow

[1] https://github.com/wustho/epy

I used to dislike ebooks until I started using epy. Reading on the command line made it more enjoyable to read some technical books, especially since it can vertically split alongside vim or a console.

In the book section, I would recommend adding epy by the same author as epr. It’s an updated version with more features

From desktop open source TTS systems, I found mimic closest to being useful, and my preferred EPub reader (epy) can use it.

Here is cli one, worth a try: https://github.com/wustho/epy

I would substitute dateutils for 17 and wordgrinder for 3 instead of pdd and abiword. Also, p7zip instead of 20, zip and unzip. For calendar (18), I like gcal which could also be used as 29, reminder. For a nice TUI ebook reader, I like epy.

epy or Foliate on desktop. Really there are so many ways to read EPubs!

There is a gtk4 branch for Foliate here: https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/tree/gtk4

Yes. From their repo README:

https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate

Supported formats:

- EPUB (.epub, .epub3)

- Kindle (.azw, .azw3) and Mobipocket (.mobi)

- FictionBook (.fb2, .fb2.zip)

- Comic book archive (.cbr, .cbz, .cbt, .cb7)

- Plain text (.txt)

Foliate.

Foliate. Scroll down for how to build or install.

Installed Foliate (from deb file https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/releases). Nice reader for EPUB, as f now found all features I tried to find: settings for margins, one/two columns, dark theme, zoom with reflow, view as pages vs scrolling. Not registered to open files from file manager after install, but I guess I could add manually.

the reader is called foliate but it only works on linux. this brother's software is free as in freedom

There's also Foliate, but it's still Linux only. Windows builds are possible (other GTK programs have done it) but still ongoing research.

Thanks for pointing out which package update caused the issue, this could be fixed through next release of webkit2gtk. Keep an eye on https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/issues/797

Foliate https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate

You should try Foliate. I recently found about this after using CoolReader for years and have never looked back.