Calibre is great for managing an ebook library, and okay for reading ebooks but the reader is clearly not its primary focus, so I’m wondering what readers folks here use across platforms.
I know of a few, but I’m always on the lookout for different options that may have features I didn’t realize I’d love to use.
Depends on device for me. For android I use Librera for books, Tachiyomi/Kotatsu for manga/comics, on the old Kindle I was gifted (Kindle Touch 2) I use KOReader so I can read epubs. For desktop I do use Calibre for reading, though I’m not a big fan of their reader. I mainly read textbooks on desktop and find the search features useful, which is the main reason for using it, it all works well enough. I had issues getting Okular to work well on my computer, but I’ve heard it’s good? Here’s hoping I can unify things a bit in the future.
Eta: I forgot I actually started using Seeneva for comics, since I like the speech-bubble zoom feature
I had issues getting Okular to work well on my computer, but I’ve heard it’s good?
Which OS were you trying it with? I was pleasantly surprised when I found it was available on Windows, and a simple install had it working for me. Another option to consider if it still gives issues (and you’re on Windows) may be SumatraPDF, which despite the name supports a wide range of formats.
I’m running Debian. Okular worked for smaller epubs just fine iirc, but was struggling with large textbooks which is what I was using it for (Deitel Java specifically). Took forever to load, and was sluggish to search.
Unfortunately it looks like sumatra is windows only, but I’ll keep searching!
ReadEra on android and Calibre’s reader on Xubuntu desktop.
Might look into some of the stuff suggested here.
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Okular it can read pretty much any format. MoonReader+ on my android devices.
I really like Alexandria on desktop and there’s android support on the roadmap on GitHub.
Book reader on android.
Am I just a tech-peasant by using Book Reader? It’s not the flashiest but I dig it.
I like book reader. It’s simple and does the job.
I also use Calibre as a library manager, but I haven’t found another way to read that is not my kobo. The not e-ink screens just tire my eyes too much.
I use Ttsu Reader. Browser-based so it’ll run on anything, and has all the conveniences thereof.
Edit: Unless I’m actually using my Kobo, then I’ll just use my Kobo.
I wish I could get this site to let me rotate by 90 degrees. I only have a single monitor and it displays it horizontally instead of vertically. Which would make sense for a tablet or phone that you could physically rotate.
I use my hacked kindle 4 and Bookreader on android tablet.
Try foliate or koodo reader, they got a clean UI
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I am surprised I haven’t seen Kavita show up here yet! It’s a very nice self hosted ebook/manga/comic reading server that you can access from a web browser on any device. It’s really matured over the years.
I have a few thousand novels in there and really like being able to hop between devices while keeping my spot in a book.
Only thing I miss from Apple was their mobile eReader. Anyone know of a decent copy of that one?
I have a cheap Kobo and put KOReader and Syncthing on it.
