Skip to content

Modern GTK Python Ebook Reader app to easily read epub files

License

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

bigmanstan/Ebook-Viewer

 
 

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

Icon

easy-ebook-viewer

Modern GTK Python app to easily read ePub files

Ebook Viewer is currently in early stages of development. It's a re-write of old ebook reader called pPub.

Planned for first public release:

  • ePub opening & display
  • Basic chapter navigation
  • Restoring of reading position
  • Importing from other ebook file formats
  • Chapter jumping
  • Chapter index based navigation
  • Per book bookmarks
  • Switching between light and dark style
  • Text size control
  • eBook font picker

Enormous rendering improvement is on the way too.

Future plans:

  • Native non-DRM mobi support
  • Native txt support
  • Native html support
  • Content searching
  • Pernament highlighting
  • Book metadata display
  • Ability to edit book metadata

Installing

Requires: gir1.2-webkit-3.0, libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, gir1.2-gtk-3.0, python3-gi (PyGObject for Python 3)

Download or clone this repository then run in project directory:

sudo make install

Note the lack of configure step so make sure you have all dependencies.

Screenshots

Dark theme

Dark theme

Light theme

Light theme

About

Modern GTK Python Ebook Reader app to easily read epub files

Resources

License

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published

Languages

  • Python 93.5%
  • Makefile 4.8%
  • CSS 1.6%
  • Shell 0.1%