Calibre is great for managing an ebook library, and okay for reading ebooks but the reader is clearly not its primary focus, so I’m wondering what readers folks here use across platforms.

I know of a few, but I’m always on the lookout for different options that may have features I didn’t realize I’d love to use.

  • God@lemmy.org
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    6 months ago

    Foliate has been absolutely amazing. I love the simple interface that doesn’t look as dated as calibre.

  • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Librera is the one I’d recommend if you care about customisation, and it also has TTS (Text To Speech), which is why I use it almost exclusively.

    Myne is a beautiful and minimalistic app that lets you read books from the Gutenberg project. I have asked the developer, and they have no intention to add TTS functionality to the app.

    Shosetsu is the best app for fanfiction (AO3 extension) and lightnovels. It recently got a TTS feature as well, but that feature is not very usable in its current implementation.

  • betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com
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    1 year ago

    I use Koreader. It’s a bit heavy because it has basically any option you can think of, it works on a wide multitude of platforms, and can have weird bugs sometimes but hardly ever. But the way I read, I need some settings that aren’t in very many readers and it has them. Try it out.

    • ram@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Switched from the proprietary moon+ reader to Librera because of this comment and I’ve been happy with it. Presentation’s quite different but all the functionality I like is there, including custom fonts. Thanks for posting about this software!

    • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      Speaking personally, it’s just that non-eInk displays are simply what I have to work with and they don’t bother me to read on. I’m kind of confused, given that most displays don’t use e-Ink…Do you minimize your web browsing as a result, or is it different compared to reading ebooks for you?

      Disregard the question, rereading your post you address it, it just hadn’t fully clicked as I’ve not talked to many people with your experience.

        • Luke@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          I think AMOLED screens might make a huge difference. I’ve read countless novels on my phone with zero eye strain because the black pixels are actually entirely unlit and literally black. This means the brightness for the letters can be extremely low while remaining legible and comfortably readable for hours.