foliate VS xournalpp

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.

I highly recommend Rnote to anyone on Linux that misses the "hodgepodge" notetaking of apps like OneNote. It works like a dream on touchscreens and drawing tablets, with a surprising amount of configuration under the hood.

Also worth noting is Xournal, an older but similar project: https://xournalpp.github.io/

I've been using Xournalpp[1] for many years, highlighting books as I read them, adding in text/hand drawn annotations in whitespaces if necessary. Unlike other PDF readers/annotators, it saves a separate file, so the original PDF is untouched. It can also export the annotated PDF as a new PDF with highlights and annotations.

Obsidian[2] also has PDF support, where you can open a markdown document side by side with the PDF to take notes as you read. I think it also lets you highlight the PDF itself.

Emacs I think has a similar feature, via plugins/org-mode(?) to the Obsidian setup.

And of course your typical PDF reader probably has support for highlighting PDFs too, but I find them clunky and they save by exporting a PDF, which can be a bit heavy-handed IMO compared to just saving the annotations/highlights as a separate file as Xournalpp does.

[1]: https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/

Currently, I am trying to build a small open source NLP project for which I first find text on a page and then translate it; see the current project state here: https://github.com/PellelNitram/xournalpp_htr. The purpose of this project is to make handwritten text in Xournal++ searchable for all users.

[Xournal++](https://xournalpp.github.io/) is in my option the best handwritten note-taking software out there, because it has all the coolest features (like LaTeX snippets and shapes) and it's open source too, so make sure to check it out!