What eBook readers are available?

Question

Can anyone suggest a nice eBook reader in Ubuntu?

Preferably something lightweight.

Solution 1

There is an amazing piece of software called Calibre. I linked an article talking about its features it nice and useful! To install it click the icon: calibre

Alternatively you can install Adobe Reader with eBook extension.

Solution 2

FBReader

Solution 3

I've not been happy with Calibre due to the translation functions outputting corrupt RTF's as well as the developer's aggressive lack of interest in providing packages. I usually just use OpenOffice to translate stuff to PDF (using Gentium Book Basic) and then use Evince which seems to work fine for me.

Solution 4

If you use Firefox and have it running most of the time you can read the .epub format e-books from within the browser with this extension http://www.epubread.com/en/

Solution 5

I use Calibre because the integration with my Android phone is amazing. Calibre + Wordplayer FTW!

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Comments

[wdypdx22]

+1 for Calibre! When I saw the question this is exactly what I was going to recommend.

[eugenemarshall]

I'd recommend getting Calibre from the developer's website, rather than through the Ubuntu repositories. The Ubuntu repos have an older version and the newer one, I've found, is significantly more functional. Here's the developer's site: calibre-ebook.com/download_linux

[eugenemarshall]

This is good if you only need an ebook viewer and not an ebook library manager and ebook device sync-er. Calibre is great but much heavier than FBReader.

[jumpnett]

+1 Calibre is great. I was going to recommend it as well.

[Daniel Clem]

I was having an issue with Calibre from the Ubuntu Soft Center. After changing the Roman numeral setting for book series numbers.It deletes all the books that have any Series number attached to it. I reported it but the dev was really rude and snotty with me about it. Saying he refuses to do any work on bugs with the Ubuntu Soft Center version, cause it uses older version of packages. He refused despite the fact that this potentially could delete more than half my library, and that the version from his site fails to install. I am still using Calibre as its the only option, but backing up alot.

[Daniel Clem]

he was a bit rude to be as well, refusing to work on any bugs pertaining to the Calibre in the repos, despite the fact that the version from his site fails to install on my machines and that the bug I was having deletes entire series of books from the library if you change a setting.

[vishal]

+1 This answer encouraged me to poke around with Evince's settings more - and it turns out it can do most of what I need.

[cjohansson]

While it's a great book cataloging program, I don't think it's great for actually reading a book. It's great along with some book reading device (e-ink, tablet, smartphone)