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While I think it does look good and seems to have a wide range of features supported right out of the box, what new does it bring to the table?

microflash 3y ago
It does support multiple platforms. Even though I love Calibre, I'd love to use a better looking ebook Reader on desktop.
- criddell 3y ago
  Is it multi platform though? It seems like the platform is Chromium.
  - sbt567 3y ago
    *Webview
- Klonoar 3y ago
  So just to play devil's advocate: is it really that much more work to build something entirely new in Tauri than to just do the porting work for releasing a GTK app on Windows/macOS? I know it's annoying but it's not like it's impossible, right?
  - xulres 3y ago
    It's really easy to build wrapper apps based around good available libraries in tauri.
    - Klonoar 3y ago
      That doesn’t answer my question at all. What exactly is so hard about porting the existing GTK app? That work already exists, anything in Tauri is reinventing the wheel.
- 3abiton 3y ago
  Calibre is like the mupdf of epub
  - JNRowe 3y ago
    mupdf is the mupdf of epub; it supports epub and other formats beyond pdf¹. When I've had really large files I've used mupdf to read them a few times, as it seems to be far better at handling them than other tools. ¹ https://mupdf.com/ https://mupdf.com/
input_sh 3y ago
Isn't being cross-platform, relatively modern-looking and open source already setting it apart from the current offerings? There's great ones (like Foliate or Moon+) which are limited to one platform, there's ones that are cross-platform, but look so dated that I couldn't seriously use them for reading (like the one integrated in Calibre), and there's ones which are both fairly modern-looking and cross-platform, but not open source (like FBReader). If this one syncs my books, reading positions, and highlights across my devices, that's gonna be a huge win in my book.
- JNRowe 3y ago
  Hmm, that is odd about fbreader. I have the Debian package¹ installed that is Open Source², but looks like recent versions are no longer Open Source. Hadn't noticed that before. Might also argue that nov.el³ is high quality and cross platform, but I'm not sure my definition of cross platform would necessarily align with other peoples ;) ¹ https://packages.debian.org/trixie/fbreader https://packages.debian.org/trixie/fbreader ² https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/f/fbreader/fbreader_0.12.10dfsg2-6_copyright https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/f/fb... ³ https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el
- soligern 3y ago
  I don’t see how an ebook reader can look “dated”. It’s literally displaying your text, with your chosen font in a frame.
  - slikrick 3y ago
    That's perfectly okay that you cant see how it could look dated. If you wish to have a productive conversation you should probably open your eyes and look a bit broader, perhaps by not minimizing things to their absolute minimum and thinking about that. you reduce the entire UI/UX as "in a frame" because the rest of it is about the actual content and font, which are literally the most basic need that the rest of the discussion is what actually matters
    - 3y ago
cynicalsecurity 3y ago
It's on JavaScript.

microflash 3y ago

It does support multiple platforms. Even though I love Calibre, I'd love to use a better looking ebook Reader on desktop.

criddell 3y ago
Is it multi platform though? It seems like the platform is Chromium.
- sbt567 3y ago
  *Webview
Klonoar 3y ago
So just to play devil's advocate: is it really that much more work to build something entirely new in Tauri than to just do the porting work for releasing a GTK app on Windows/macOS? I know it's annoying but it's not like it's impossible, right?
- xulres 3y ago
  It's really easy to build wrapper apps based around good available libraries in tauri.
  - Klonoar 3y ago
    That doesn’t answer my question at all. What exactly is so hard about porting the existing GTK app? That work already exists, anything in Tauri is reinventing the wheel.
3abiton 3y ago
Calibre is like the mupdf of epub
- JNRowe 3y ago
  mupdf is the mupdf of epub; it supports epub and other formats beyond pdf¹. When I've had really large files I've used mupdf to read them a few times, as it seems to be far better at handling them than other tools. ¹ https://mupdf.com/ https://mupdf.com/

input_sh 3y ago

Isn't being cross-platform, relatively modern-looking and open source already setting it apart from the current offerings? There's great ones (like Foliate or Moon+) which are limited to one platform, there's ones that are cross-platform, but look so dated that I couldn't seriously use them for reading (like the one integrated in Calibre), and there's ones which are both fairly modern-looking and cross-platform, but not open source (like FBReader). If this one syncs my books, reading positions, and highlights across my devices, that's gonna be a huge win in my book.

JNRowe 3y ago
Hmm, that is odd about fbreader. I have the Debian package¹ installed that is Open Source², but looks like recent versions are no longer Open Source. Hadn't noticed that before. Might also argue that nov.el³ is high quality and cross platform, but I'm not sure my definition of cross platform would necessarily align with other peoples ;) ¹ https://packages.debian.org/trixie/fbreader https://packages.debian.org/trixie/fbreader ² https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/f/fbreader/fbreader_0.12.10dfsg2-6_copyright https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/f/fb... ³ https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el
soligern 3y ago
I don’t see how an ebook reader can look “dated”. It’s literally displaying your text, with your chosen font in a frame.
- slikrick 3y ago
  That's perfectly okay that you cant see how it could look dated. If you wish to have a productive conversation you should probably open your eyes and look a bit broader, perhaps by not minimizing things to their absolute minimum and thinking about that. you reduce the entire UI/UX as "in a frame" because the rest of it is about the actual content and font, which are literally the most basic need that the rest of the discussion is what actually matters
  - 3y ago

cynicalsecurity 3y ago

It's on JavaScript.