okular is messing up most of the epub files.
mupfd is showing them properly, but the user interface is terrible. same as for many others I tried.
Is there a properly working epub reader with an easy user interface as okular?
There are a some epub readers available in the standard Leap 15.6 repos (YaST Software → search filter “description”, search word “epub”):
arianna
bookworm
fbreader
foliate
lector
I tried them - they are all rather a nuisance
What about Calibre? It’s a bit big, but I quite like it.
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Take a look at Calibre
They have a download to do the install, but I would prefer the Flatpak version you can find using Discover … it’s the most current version
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I’m not looking for a library management system, but for an application that opens an epub file directly for reading (like okular) when I click on the file in a file manager
I was also dissatisfied with the Okular application, as far as reading epub files is concerned. But I figured out that I need to change the font in the epub backend settings.
I set Liberation Serif 10 there and I’ve been happy ever since.
… fbreader seems to be the best of the ones listed above
OT:
I was looking for calibre for a different purpose, but I couldn’t find a possibilty to install (I’m not using flatpack). OBS/ecsos failed depenedencies, Discover doen’t find it.
as mentioned: ecsos dons’t work
The TO already posted in comment 9 that the ecsos build cannot be installed due to missing deps…(not uncommon for untested home repos).
Can easily be tested in a VM…
Version 7.4.0 is the last one which can build under Leap because need Qt6 >= 6.5.3 to run.
calibre includes an e-book reader that you can run standalone - it’s called ebook-viewer.
You don’t have to use the library management stuff to use it.
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