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Modern GTK Python Ebook Reader app to easily read epub files

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:

  • [x] ePub opening & display
  • [x] Basic chapter navigation
  • [x] Restoring of reading position
  • [x] Importing from other ebook file formats
  • [x] Chapter jumping
  • [x] Chapter index based navigation
  • [ ] Per book bookmarks
  • [x] 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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