Basic Ebook Reader for Ubuntu

Beru is an ebook reader for Ubuntu. It's built on the the new Ubuntu Toolkit, so it works best on touch devices. It behaves resonably on the desktop, as well. Beru features full support for Epub files and preliminary support for CBZ and PDF files. Watch the progress at http://rschroll.github.io/beru/.

Building

You will need the Ubuntu SDK. To build out-of-tree, do

$ mkdir <build directory>
$ cd <build directory>
$ cmake <path to source>
$ make

Note that Qt Creator will do this automatically for you.

In-tree builds should work, but will not be as tested.

Running

Launch Beru with the shell script beru.

Beru keeps a library of epub files. On every start, a specified folder is searched and all epubs in it are included in the library. You may also pass a epub file to beru as an argument. This will open the file and add it to your library.

The Library is stored in a local database. While I won't be cavalier about changing the database format, it may happen. If you're getting database errors after upgrading, delete the database and reload your files. The database is one of the ones in ~/.local/share/com.ubuntu.developer.rschroll.beru/Databases; read the .ini files to find the one with Name=BeruLocalBooks.

Click Packages

The install option target can be used to help build click packages. First, run cmake with the -DCLICK_MODE=ON option. Then run from the build directory

make DESTDIR=<directory> install

This will fill the directory with the contents for the click package, which may be assembed with

click build <directory>

To build clicks from within Qt Creator, add -DCLICK_MODE=ON to the CMake arguments of the build settings.

Note that the click package contains .so files, and is therefore limited to the architecture on which it was produced. To produce click packages for other architectures, you'll need to cross compile.

Known Problems

Known bugs are listed on the issue tracker. If you don't see your problem listed there, please add it!