Why are all epub reading desktop applications shit?

Desktop software is dead.

Reading books on the PC is dumb as shit. Buy an e-reader, poorfag

sent from my iPad Nano

Looks ok to me

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This but unironically

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This. Most desktop software is garbage that hasn’t been updated in years. Looking at you google earth pro...

mupdf

>epub reading desktop applications

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Just reconvert them to HTML and read them in your browser of choice.

I think sumatrapdf can into epub

>no margins
>no font options
what...? you can configure that through the settings.

It's (X)HTML under the hood.

Why don't you convert it into PDF?

What app is that and what's wrong with it?

okular seems just fine the few times I use it. Don't see anything wrong with it beyond the simple fact that I don't like sitting in front of my computer reading books and comics - specially not when I have a tablet.

I have made three css "inspired" by firefox reader mode to make the calibre viewer more bearable. Let me clean and pastebin them.

Calibre is the best already.

ZATHURA king of epub scene.

Noise Light: ghostbin.com/paste/ttwae
Noise Sepia: ghostbin.com/paste/tbzqf
Noise Dark: ghostbin.com/paste/xjw4p

Download imagedoc-lightnoise.png and replace background-image with "file:///path/to/image" to make it work offline or just delete the line if you want to save your eyesight.
It's based on an old userstyle for firefox reader mode and centers the text with a margin on the sides.
There are some bugs with titles but I don't have the patience fix that.

Also, don't forget to disable "save reading position in the file" or something like that.

Sorry for png but jpg has a higher size due to the noise shit.

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reasons: epub is relatively new. normies use kindle (hw & apps). epub is used more for fiction & literature (ereaders), textbooks & stuff are pdf. thus no one that uses epub really needs a desktop app.

>Most desktop software is garbage that hasn’t been updated in years.
You must be an MacOS user.

Figuratively literally this, especially if you need Japanese support

open them in 7zip and read them in your web browser

Okular

nan desu ka?

Stop being poor

is it possible to disable that godawful sidebar or does the pajeet man forbid it?

just convert them to pdf and use zathura

chm > epub

chm is cancer

You disable everything and also drag them somewhere else.

Readium is a plugin for Chrome that's better than Calibre its simple and fast and well designed and supports the latest epubs properly while Calibre does it via a hack way that doesn't format them properly.

all the 40k people use Readium because gamesworkshop publishes its epubs in the latest formats

this
combine with css for complete customization

What the fuck do you want? Every preinstalled pdf/epub/whatever reader that came with linux distros I tried worked just fine.
Do you want fancy buttons or what? As long as you can navigate fine and zoom in I don't see the problem.

Because Calibre is Shudra-tier Pajeetware that I wish people would stop recommending

Why would people upload epub over pdf?

Text reflow. PDF is a boomer format.

It's been around for like a decade, but programmers are apparently illiterate. Plenty of comic book viewers, though. Browser extensions seem like the best bet these days if you just want to flip through something.

this

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wrong

meant the only part of Calibre that's useful is the cli tools it comes with, and even they are horribly slow

>new = better
Epub is a shit tier format created for normie boomers reading james patterson on their shitty tablets

how does that happen

Very poorly. Can't even select text, search, add bookmarks, notes...

That gives you more features, but the layout/fonts get fucked up.
Sumatra is good for a quick check, but it's not a proper reader.

Imagine being this retarded. PDF is garbage for books.

iBooks on macOS does epubs as well as the iPad version of the same app does.

Compared to OP's screenshot, the main problems Calibre's reader suffers from is an irrational fear of margins, line spacing that's too tight, and mediocre font rendering (which is weird, because the titlebar text is rendered great… I guess Calibre just does its own rendering?).

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Calibre's UI can be customized...

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>I guess Calibre just does its own rendering?
it uses qtwebkit

Reading books on desktops and laptops is inherently bad. Get an eink reader, or a tablet if you need lots of high res pictures.

Calibre's ebook reader is the slowest piece of shit

EPUB IS LITERALLY A WRAPPER FOR ZIPPED .HTML PAGES
JUST UNZIP AND USE A WEB BROWSER

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Literally better to read things on phone than on computer. The absolute state of wang/loonix/macucks

even if true i aint listening to a /v/igger.
besides james Uncucked himself.

Does anyone use freda? I kinda like this one, lightweight, customizable

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chm is objectively better, you're just a lying linux crybaby

>all
what the fuck is there even besides calibre
no seriously, I want a viable alternative

it's calibre and it's bloated as fuck. I don't need a damn library feature, my shit is organized just fine, I just want a lightweight reader that can into formatting

If you read any significant amount of fanfiction Calibre is leagues ahead of every alternative I've seen

You can't bookmark tho.

okular with epub extension

>significant amount of fanfiction
why

Just add an tag to each chapter heading. If the original .epub file had a table of contents, there's already an ID that you can link to and then bookmark.

Not all fanfiction is bad. It's just that finding the good stories takes effort.

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okular can't show embedded pictures reliably. My chinese porn novels with illustrations only work properly in calibre viewer while okular greets me with a missing picture icon. Fuck that shit.

What an inefficient way to do it. Do you even read books ?

I've been wanting a good reader to handle this as well, zathura seems like a good option since I already use this for pdf.

What's the best Kirk/Spock fanfiction?

I agree with this 100%. I can not find a decent epub reader on any platform. How the fuck did this format ever gain a foothold? PDF may be shit, but at least it's thoroughly supported everywhere.

convert to pdf

>what is converting to pdf with calibre
>what is opening that pdf with firefox

The original is an azw3 file with vertical text, and I guess Calibre's reader doesn't support that.

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>implying I read Star Trek fanfiction
Surprisingly, even Star Wars doesn't have many good stories available [spoiler]not counting the EU[/spoiler].

Chinese matrix in a non colored version.

>opening with firefox
>not evince or sumatra

babluboy.github.io/bookworm/
flatpak install --from flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.github.babluboy.bookworm.flatpakref

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use readium its a chrome plugin its the best reader.

>library feature
Calibre is for organizing and converting ebooks you pinhead. The reader functionality is just tacked on so you can preview them.

THIS. It has ONE job, and it's to display text files

Why is reading on a computer so shit?

But it isn't.

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>But it isn't.
>not reading comfortably in bed

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irrelevant bloat.

I don't know what you mean I have a surface.

But iBooks is awesome on desktop, OP

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Absolute pleb tier

>chinese

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Calibre reader is alright, I switch it to three columns paginated so it's easier to read shit in the abomination that is 16:9
there a few nifty CSS color schemes out there you can apply to make it look nice.
if you're a cli fag you can use any number of epub.py scripts to read epubs in terminal.
just use fullscreen.
I think by far the shittiest epub reader is mupdf and its raster/dpi nonsense
okular is trash. if you must use qt qpdfview exists.
atril supports epub and is more featureful but gtk
edit the advanced settings in notepad
personally im fine with Sumatra defaults, I just change the font to a sans serif like lato instead of georgia.

It's not that bad desu

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