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Okular can open ebooks. Maybe it does what you want.

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Jedd4y ago

Okular's my favourite PDF reader -- I install it even on Microsoft Windows machines I have to use -- but it doesn't read .epub or .mobi files unfortunately.

horstmeyerOP4y ago

I'm pretty sure it does for me. I think it's probably a package that it uses. I'll check tomorrow and let you know.

Jedd4y ago

Hot dang you're absolutely right - I'd never discovered this package before:

okular-extra-backends

Includes support for mobi and epub, as well as TIFF, CHM, Markdown etc. Weirdly the .epub and .mobi are quite slow to open compared to PDF, but I'm happier now for the suggestion to go hunting for this - thank you!

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Jedd4y ago

Okular's my favourite PDF reader -- I install it even on Microsoft Windows machines I have to use -- but it doesn't read .epub or .mobi files unfortunately.

horstmeyerOP4y ago

I'm pretty sure it does for me. I think it's probably a package that it uses. I'll check tomorrow and let you know.

Jedd4y ago

Hot dang you're absolutely right - I'd never discovered this package before:

okular-extra-backends

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