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GitHub - johnfactotum/foliate: A simple and modern GTK eBook reader

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README.md

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Foliate

A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer, built with GJS and Epub.js.

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Website: https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/

Features

  • View EPUB files
  • Two-page view and scrolled view
  • Customize font and line-spacing
  • Light, sepia, dark, and invert mode
  • Reading progress slider with chapter marks
  • Bookmarks and annotations
  • Find in book
  • Quick dictionary lookup
  • Touchpad gestures: use two-finger swipe to turn the page (on master branch; not released yet)

Installation

Flatpak

Download on Flathub

Distribution packages

For Arch Linux users, two packages are available on the AUR: foliate (stable version), foliate-git (Git version)

Install manually from source

First, you'll need the following dependencies:

  • gjs
  • webkit2gtk
  • libsoup
  • meson

Then run the follwing commands:

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja
sudo ninja install

To uninstall, run

sudo ninja uninstall

Screenshots

Dictionary:

Lookup

Annotations:

Note

Annotations

Find in book:

Find

Dark mode:

Dark

Book metadata display:

About

Note: three JavaScript libraries are bundled in this software:

  • Epub.js, which is licensed under FreeBSD. The included file is patched to fix futurepress/epub.js#942
  • The minified version of JSZip, which is dual-licensed. You may use it under the MIT license or the GPLv3 license. See LICENSE.markdown
  • A browserified version of Cheerio, which is licensed under MIT. Cheerio is used to parse and extract data from Wiktionary

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