domgregori / ebook-viewer

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I do not develop this anymore and I'm not sure I will. Stop starring me.

As far as I know Bookworm does everything better anyway. And this thing suffers from terrible home baked parsing engine. Or just consider more up to date fork.

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easy-ebook-viewer

Modern GTK Python app to easily read ePub files

Ebook Viewer is currently in early stages of development. It's a re-write of old ebook reader called pPub.

Planned for first public release:

  • ePub opening & display
  • Basic chapter navigation
  • Restoring of reading position
  • Importing from other ebook file formats
  • Chapter jumping
  • Chapter index based navigation
  • Per book bookmarks
  • Switching between light and dark style
  • Text size control
  • eBook font picker

Enormous rendering improvement is on the way too.

Future plans:

  • Native non-DRM mobi support
  • Native txt support
  • Native html support
  • Content searching
  • Pernament highlighting
  • Book metadata display
  • Ability to edit book metadata

Installing

Requires: gir1.2-webkit-3.0, libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, gir1.2-gtk-3.0, python3-gi (PyGObject for Python 3), python3-xdg

Download or clone this repository then run in project directory:

sudo make install

Note the lack of configure step so make sure you have all dependencies.

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Dark Theme

Dark theme

Light Theme

Light theme

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