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What is a small .EPUB reader that is easy to install for my small Puppy remaster? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago by grey@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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My question is basically the title. I'm making my own Puppy Linux remaster and it already has a .PDF reader for it that is very small. I think it's called Evince? It has a native GTK UI and starts in a second, uses very little RAM and CPU. Now I need a .EPUB reader. I've seen a couple different .EPUB reader apps out there for different distros, and they all the .EPUB readers seem to fall into a couple categories:

  • humongous JS monstrosity that runs inside a web browser OR packages an entire chrome copy into it with a bloated dependency hell

  • something else that is humongous and has dependency hell but non secretly a massive web app inside a web browser under the hood.

So is there some third option that's small and light and easy to install like the normal .PDF reader? I'm just asking because I honestly didn't find one that fit the bill.

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[–] beerclue@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As far as I know, MuPDF is not that heavy, and can view both PDFs and EPUBs (and others).

I personally use zathura, which is a very, very light weight document viewer, has vi style key bindings, and has plugins for viewing PDF, EPUB, CB, and others. Works pretty well in a keyboard centric desktop environment (I use Hyprland).

[–] atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

zathura is amazingly lightweight and does the job right. i even use that on my phone (which is not that powerful).

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

+1 for Zathura.

[–] ardent_abysm@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Assuming you have a Firefox derived browser installed, you could just add an EPUB extension to the browser.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's a couple of command lines e-reader apps you may want to try.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

less 😎

[–] LemonLord@endlesstalk.org 2 points 2 years ago

Take Emacs. Then you have everything. 😎

[–] jennraeross@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Epy reader is command line, so not very discoverable, but I freaking love it

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You're going to have a web browser installed, right? .epub files are just zips with HTML/images/CSS inside. Extract it and find the HTML file named "toc" and go from there. This won't be as nice as using a dedicated reading application, but it will save you space.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

puppy is really an underappreciated distro.