![]() This is a handy feature because I found the AD.nl newspapers download has 447 pages. The search actually makes it possible to search inside a book or newspaper. The reader is easy to operate as soon as you figure out what the buttons are for. The e-reader feature is an excellent reader. Because Calibre has such a rich feature set that I believe to have only scratched the surface of what Calibre can do. ![]() This feature enables me to download news from newspapers and other sources all over the world. The number one feature I love of Calibre is the “Get News” functionality. Also as far as I know Calibre is the only application that allows you to easily connect to your e-reader hardware. It has so many options and possibilities that it could be hard to figure out for the beginner. Content server for Online access to your book collectionĬalibre is for the more advanced user.Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form.Maybe it should be seen as unfair that I even put Calibre on the list. Calibre (5 out of 5)Ĭalibre is a more than only a e-reader as you can see from the features below. I believe that when it’s fully developed and the current problems are fixed, this would be a great reader. , which is why it ranks higher in the list of best e-readers for Linux. if it was possible, I would have given Lucidor a 3.5. In my opinion Lucidor still needs some work which is why Lucidor only has 3 stars. Scrolling sometimes doesn’t go as smooth as I would like. When clicking the links they work, but the previous and next links could overlap the article title. Lucidor had problems with a New York Times ePub file that has links included in the file. There are standard catalogs you can open(tip: click on the star).īrowsing the Web with Lucidor is possible, but because Lucidor uses XULRunner, it has the same problems as Firefox(with Flash- and Java-plugins crashing). I was able to open an book from and read it. The browse catalog feature is great and works awesome. The Lucidor website features a list of themes proven to work. This means that it is possible to Skin Lucidor with Firefox themes. Lucidor is built on XULRunner(yes from the Firefox people). To organize the books, it uses a bookcase. The interface hardly has any buttons on the home screen. When it comes to simplicity, Lucidor takes the prize. Search for and download e-books from the Internet, for example by browsing OPDS catalogs. ![]() Organize a collection of e-books in a local bookcase.However this could be seen as an advantage to some. Lucidor’s feature set is smaller than any of the others. This is why I can only mark this reader with 3 stars. Some publishers (like newspapers for instance) only have a PDF version available. The lack of PDF support is also a problem. I tried to search for title, author, publisher, all with no result. However all of the different searches I tried did not turn up any results. Network search is supposed to search &. The interface is not dressed up with a lot of buttons you don’t need at first glance and is therefore easy to understand and use. Loading books into its library is easy and really doesn’t take any advanced knowledge at all. Screen rotation by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.įBReader does an excellent job at what it is designed for - reading an e-book is a comfortable experience. Patterns for Czech, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian are included in the current version. The same algorithm is used in TeX, and TeX hyphenation patterns are used in FBReader. Keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all opened books between runs. Īutomatic language and character encoding detection is supported.(Multiple books in one archive are supported.) * Non-DRM’d version of Mobipocket, a popular commercial e-book format.ĭirect reading from tar, zip, gzip and bzip2 archives. * plucker, one of the most popular Palm e-book format. * fb2, a Russian e-books standard de facto. * ePub, an international e-publishing standard. FBReader can be installed from repositories on most Linux Distributions. FBReader (4 out of 5)įBReader has been around the longest and is in all probability the most popular reader on Linux. None of them handle PDF like they should - if they even allow you to read PDF’s at all, that is. I have one big problem with all e-readers available for Linux. The reviews below are in no particular order. Please note that this is “in my opinion” after trying all of the software yourself, you might form a different opinion. The list of the best options are at the bottom of the article. ![]()
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