What eBook readers are available?

Question

Can anyone suggest a nice eBook reader in Ubuntu?

Preferably something lightweight.

Answer 1

There is an amazing piece of software called Calibre. I linked an article talking about its features it nice and useful! To install it click the icon: calibre

Alternatively you can install Adobe Reader with eBook extension.

Answer 2

FBReader

Answer 3

I've not been happy with Calibre due to the translation functions outputting corrupt RTF's as well as the developer's aggressive lack of interest in providing packages. I usually just use OpenOffice to translate stuff to PDF (using Gentium Book Basic) and then use Evince which seems to work fine for me.

Answer 4

If you use Firefox and have it running most of the time you can read the .epub format e-books from within the browser with this extension http://www.epubread.com/en/

Answer 5

I use Calibre because the integration with my Android phone is amazing. Calibre + Wordplayer FTW!

Answer 6

My suggestion would be Cool Reader 3. It's a simple install, and a very lightweight program (nothing so bulky as Calibre, which is nice software IF you have eBook hardware like e.g. a Kindle or a Sony, but overpowered for just a ePub viewer).

You can get Cool Reader by:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vovansrnd/coolreader
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cr3

Cheers!

Answer 7

This software has been discontinued.

Easy-Ebook-Viewer

I used to love fbreader but in ubuntu 17.04 it got problem while installing. So after a little googling I found Easy-Ebook-Viewer

Installation:

sudo apt install git gir1.2-webkit-3.0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 python3-gi
git clone https://github.com/michaldaniel/Ebook-Viewer.git
cd Ebook-Viewer
sudo make install