[unnouinceput]

I don't like .epub. I understand the reasons why this format exists, and I am 100% behind those reasons. But it's because I don't find any EPUB readers appealing to me. Just give me a FoxIt Reader clone for .epub, that's all. But naaaah!!, every single fucking e-pub reader that I tried must be a fucking library collector instead, like it's 2000's Windows Media Player style. I hate that.

As such, whenever I get my hands on an .epub file, I go to an online converter, convert it to a .pdf file and nuke it from my system. Then the .pdf gets opened in my FoxIt.

[stonecharioteer]

As someone who loves FoxIt reader, I'm building https://merrilin.ai to be the best damned ebook reader out there, to support PDF and epub. FoxIt's annotation system is one of the best I've experienced and I want to design one that is just as good if not better.

[gabrieletrovato]

Building a robust annotation system for both PDF and EPUB is a tough technical challenge, but definitely needed. I've been working in a similar space and recently open-sourced it. It's a local-first 3D library for organizing and reading EPUBs and PDFs directly in the browser. It's called KoreShelf on Github

[majora2007]

I just released a pretty solid annotation system for Kavita's EPUB reader. It wasn't super challenging (although Kavita has a custom epub renderer).

Now doing that with PDF would actually make it challenging.

Annotation system (with pics): https://wiki.kavitareader.com/guides/readers/epub/#annotatio...

[pteraspidomorph]

Have you tried foliate? Their embedded reader works quite well for me.

[frollogaston]

I'd prefer pdf from the publisher because it'll lay out the same way on my side vs theirs, or if they give epub then I'm converting to pdf for the reason you said.

[__float]

Hmm, Sumatra PDF perhaps?

[Tomte]

Okular.

It‘s working great on Windows, as well.