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Calibre
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Powerful book management software, very customizable and scriptable
Features include metadata editing and downloading, coverpage downloading., book tagging and categorization, webpage-to-ebook converter for popular websites, etc. Lots of plugins available to extend functionality.
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Average, non-power users might find the interface somewhat daunting
The interface, while functional is not the most attractive or intuitive which may put some people off and discourage their use.
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Cross-platform
Calibre is available for Linux, OS X, and Windows, 32-bit or 64-bit.
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Can't save text highlights or annotate
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Open Source
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Portable
Calibre has an optional portable build that can be stored on external media along with the users library. It can then be opened from the external media on any windows device.
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Platforms:
Windows, MacOS, Linux
License:
GPL-3.0-only
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KDE Okular
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Free and open source
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No XFA Adobe Forms support
Cannot fill PDF Forms created with Adobe.
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Trim margins
Easily trim margins either automatically or manually for easier reading
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Requires many KDE libraries
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Featureful
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No middle-mouse auto-scrolling
Instead of scrolling automatically when holding down the mouse wheel and dragging, it instead zooms in or out, in contrast with many other programs.
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Table selection
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Poor HiDPI support
You may have to tinker with QT__SCALE_FACTOR environment variables to get the desired size and not blurry content (this is a bug; see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362856 and https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54688)
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Tabbed view option
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No search results overview
You have to navigate to next/previous hit one by one
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Supports touch interaction
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No "fit to page" option under printing settings
You can only print the content as given so, when you receive a bigger or smaller image thant the default of the printer, you will have to edit it first on other editor.
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Slow scroll
Its new ultra-slow-scroll for PgUp and PgDn makes it unuseable.
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Platforms:
Windows, MacOS, Linux (KDE), BSD
License:
GPL-2.0-or-later
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Cool Reader
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Constantly changes brightness
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Free and open source
Cool Reader is available completely free and is also open source.
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Could have a better UI design
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Fully customizable
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Does not support DRM .epubs
.epubs with DRM are not supported by Cool Reader.
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A wide range of formats supported
Cool Reader supports epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi (non-DRM) and pml formats.
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Platforms:
Android
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GPL-2.0-only
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FBReader
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Cannot search for books on a SD card
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Built in eBook store
FBReader features an in built eBook store for users to download eBooks onto their devices through the app.
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No light mode
Unusable if you have astigmatism.
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Simple and fast
FBReader, while offering many options is simple in design, with that allowing for fast use.
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UI is bad
User interface is confusing and ugly.
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Books can be saved to SD card
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Complex and confusing app settings
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Cloud sync
FBReader has built in Google Drive sync for the users files, allowing them to store their eBooks online, not taking up room on their local storage.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
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