Can someone recommend a good F/OSS ebook reader on F-Droid? The existing ones I have tested have too many knobs and options and are not really user-friendly.... My wife started to get into reading, but I could not get her to get out of the Kindle/Play Books ecosystem because of the user-friendliness and easy synchronisation across devices that Kindle gives.

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wingmanjd 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

KOReader [1] is my favorite reader. Pairs well with my syncthing library of ebooks (I just keep the phone's copy in read-only mode).

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.koreader.launcher.fdroid...

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ossusermivami 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Koreader interface with syncthing is not that user friendly to non techs, very powerful can do anything but i don't think i would advise that to non techie

	▲	fn-mote 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		KOReader can update over WiFi as well, right?

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archole 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Episteme is pretty good

https://github.com/Aryan-Raj3112/episteme

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sporedro 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just to add, KOReader might not look super use friendly at first, but I highly recommend giving it a try. It’s an amazing reader.

Once your used to it, the controls are a lot better than stock kindle as well imo.

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OptionX 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To add to this, since the original comment mentioned kindle, you can jailbreak many of the models and install KOReader in them if you want to keep using the hardware.

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tukunjil 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Using readera with network connection disabled. Super app.

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AdManusMedici 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It depends.For me it’s not on app For a dedicated device(phablet/tablet) - KoReader. For Smartphone (no longtime reading) - Librera Reader

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luqtas an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i would say Librera FD, much better on Android than KOR, specially for images

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aaronax 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I run Calibre Content Server on a VM. So my ebook reading is just accessing that in the browser. Works great.

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brnt 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I actually use MuPDF for epubs, as well as pdfs.

	▲	asnelt an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Me too. It seems to be the only one that does not litter the sdcard directory.

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andrepd 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly I use Lithium with no network permissions. It's not Foss but it's good enough for me.