Reader for epub files?

lolilolicon · 2009-08-29 07:01:57

Now that google has opened up it's bookshelf, making tones of books downloadable in epub/pdf formats, I'm looking for a decent (and lightweight) epub reader.

I think it's not hard to write a application to handle this.Epub files can be extracted as zip archives, here is what it looks like:

Emma
|-- META-INF
|   `-- container.xml
|-- OEBPS
|   |-- Content-000.xml
|   |-- Content-001.xml
|   |-- Content-002.xml
... .... ... ... ... ... ... ...
... .... ... ... ... ... ... ...
|   |-- Content-045.xml
|   |-- Content-046.xml
|   |-- images
|   |   |-- Image-000-0000.jpg
|   |   |-- Image-002-0001.jpg
|   |   |-- Image-002-0002.jpg
|   |   |-- Image-003-0003.jpg
... .... ... ... ... ... ... ...
... .... ... ... ... ... ... ...
|   |   `-- Image-046-0099.jpg
|   |-- toc.ncx
|   `-- volume.opf
`-- mimetype

(Well I said that is easy but I didn't mean easy for me... lol, currently I just open those xml files with firefox.)

I've read about fbreader and calibre, but both requires qt stuff which I tend to avoid...

EDIT::

fbreader does not require qt! It defaults to gtk+ but that package in AUR uses qt4. The gtk+ version is already in [community]... silly me..
Any other solutions are all welcome!

Last edited by lolilolicon (2009-08-29 07:39:41)

rwd · 2009-08-29 10:07:08

fbreader is awesome, especially on gadgets like the nokia internet tablets.

rdahlgren · 2015-05-05 20:28:09

+1 for fbreader. It's the only thing I could find and it's easy to associate it with epub files in SpaceFM

jasonwryan · 2015-05-06 01:03:28

Please don't necrobump old threads, especially with empty posts https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

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#1 2009-08-29 07:01:57

Reader for epub files?

#2 2009-08-29 10:07:08

Re: Reader for epub files?

#3 2015-05-05 20:28:09

Re: Reader for epub files?

#4 2015-05-06 01:03:28

Re: Reader for epub files?

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