Make Calibre Portable Reading Device

Most people read e-books on a Kindle, iPad or Android tablet.

Though, not everyone can afford one of these devices and resort to reading on their computers.

If you have an e-book collection on your Linux computer and want to start reading, youll need a proper reading application.

Its open source and can do everything from managing your e-books in a digital library to converting books to different formats, edit book metadata info, and even can send book files to connected reader devices like the Amazon Kindle or tablets.

Theyve also got Linux source TarGZ archives that can be made to work on other, non-Debian Linux OSes.

Make Calibre Portable Reading Device

The main reason its like this is because unlike a portable reading device, the user has to deal with various file-formats, determine if the book files are compatible, etc.

Why Its an e-book reader that takes the difficulty out of managing and reading digital books on Linux, by providing a clean user interface, support for all popular formats and excellent features.

However, the developer also has a Flatpak release that works on all Linux OSes just fine.

Not EPUBReader Its a Firefox extension that lets users (on all platforms that can install and use the browser) read Epub format e-books in a browser window.

The app only supports the ePub format, and it wont be as full-featured as something like Calibre or others, but still, its worth a shot if youre a Firefox user and casual reading fan.

To get your hands on it, launch the Firefox web browser and visit the EPUBReader page on the Mozilla add-ons website.

Read the pop-up and allow it to download to your browser and youll have the EPUBReader extension up and running.

If youve got an extensive collection of digital books on your Linux PC but arent sure what app to use to sort them, the apps on this list are a great place to start.

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