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by endothrowho333 2346 days ago
Have you found any good ePub reader?

Zathura and Calibre are insanely bloated. FBreader is just no. Emacs works, but has similar functionality to FBreader.

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Yeah it's amazing how incredible Calibre is at organising books but terrible it is at displaying them.

As a matter of fact though, I think I have found a very good epub reader which I don't see mentioned very much called Cover.

It is ridiculously smooth at displaying epubs, maybe even more so than edge. I was reading an epub with tons of images and I could swipe left and right between pages multiple times without waiting a second for reflow, almost felt like swiping a pdf. Whereas on all those other apps the book was blurred and did not scale how I would expect it to, to fill the screen. On cover everything is displayed how I think it should be displayed without changing anything. So yeah, cover A+

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/cover-comic-reader/9wzdncr...

Agreed at Calibre! Ihave the same qualms with EPUBReader in FF, it does not get close to what edge was capable of. I'll take a look at cover at home as I sadly cannot install it at work.
I use Sumatra PDF for PDF/mobi/epub.