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What is a small .EPUB reader that is easy to install for my small Puppy remaster? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 10 months ago by grey@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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:

humongous JS monstrosity that runs inside a web browser OR packages an entire chrome copy into it with a bloated dependency hell
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.

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[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

MuPDF https://mupdf.com/ It does PDF and Epub and is pretty light.

epy https://github.com/wustho/epy is a cli Epub reader

[–] grey@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

I didn't realize MuPDF did both! That might be what I need. Thank you.

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