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Beautiful Pages

• Supports EPUB, Mobipocket, Kindle, FictionBook, and comic book archive formats
• Single-column, two-column, or continuous scrolling layouts
• Adjust font, line-spacing, and margins
• Customize colors and brightness
• Auto-hyphenation
• Skeuomorphic mode
• Auto-hide cursor and window controls
• Supports right-to-left and vertical text

Navigate with Ease

• Table of contents menu or sidebar
• Find in book
• Progress slider, with chapter marks
• Reading time estimates
• Zoom in on and rotate images
• Open footnotes in popovers
• Trackpad gestures—use two-finger swipe to turn the page
• Open multiple books at the same time, or open the same file in multiple windows

Bookmarks & Annotations

• Reading progress, bookmarks, and annotations stored in your XDG data directory as plain JSON files, so you can backup or sync them easily
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• Search annotations
• Export annotations to plain text, HTML, Markdown, and more

Nifty Tools

• Look up words in Wiktionary, Wikipedia, or offline DICT and StarDict dictionaries
• Translate passages with Google Translate
• Text-to-speech with eSpeak NG, Festival, or other engines
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• Get books online from OPDS feeds

Manual installation from source

1. Clone the source code from GitHub or download one of the releases.
2. Make sure you have these dependencies installed:
   • gjs >= 1.52
   • webkit2gtk
     (gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 for Debian based distros)
   • meson >= 0.40 (required for building)
   • gettext (required for building)
3. To install, run these commands:

   meson build --prefix=/usr
   ninja -C build
   sudo ninja -C build install
   

4. To uninstall, run sudo ninja uninstall

See README for more information.

Optional dependencies

• iso-codes (>= 3.67) for displaying language and region names
• libhandy (gir1.2-handy-0.0) is recommended to make the interface work better on larger as well as smaller screens
• Spellchecking notes requires gspell (gir1.2-gspell-1)
• If tracker3 (gir1.2-tracker-3.0) is installed, it can be used to track the locations of files
• python (2.7 or >= 3.4) is required for Mobipocket (.mobi) and Kindle (.azw, .azw3) books
• To enable auto-hyphenation, you will need to install the hyphenation rules, e.g., hyphen-en for English, hyphen-fr for French, etc.

External tools:

• To use offline dictionaries, install dictd or sdcv
• For text-to-speech support, install espeak-ng or festival