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:
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humongous JS monstrosity that runs inside a web browser OR packages an entire chrome copy into it with a bloated dependency hell
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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.
- everett ( @everett@lemmy.ml ) 12•10 months ago
You’re going to have a web browser installed, right? .epub files are just zips with HTML/images/CSS inside. Just find the HTML file with named “toc” and go from there.
- Pantherina ( @Pantherina@feddit.de ) 2•10 months ago
I.e. install a Browser extension that does this
- bbbhltz ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) English10•10 months ago
MuPDF https://mupdf.com/ It does PDF and Epub and is pretty light.
epy https://github.com/wustho/epy is a cli Epub reader
I didn’t realize MuPDF did both! That might be what I need. Thank you.
Also, are you banned? I can only see your post in my inbox, but not on the thread.
- Vilian ( @Vilian@lemmy.ca ) 8•10 months ago
if he was banned you couldn’t see him anywhere, probably federation being funcky, or your app not updating both at the same time
- bbbhltz ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) English7•10 months ago
Just checked the modlog. I don’t appear to be banned. Funky Federation stuff.
- bbbhltz ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) English1•10 months ago
I have no idea how I would be banned, I’m not super active. How can I find out if I’ve been banned?
- ardent_abysm ( @ardent_abysm@lemm.ee ) 8•10 months ago
Assuming you have a Firefox derived browser installed, you could just add an EPUB extension to the browser.
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@kbin.social ) 3•10 months ago
puppy is really an underappreciated distro.
- LemonLord ( @LemonLord@endlesstalk.org ) 3•10 months ago
Take Emacs. Then you have everything. 😎
- Bob Smith ( @bismuthbob@sopuli.xyz ) 2•10 months ago
One option is to convert to txt for any text-only epubs that you have. There are a ton of lightweight options if you’re willing to use format-shifted copies on your computer.