Sigil – A free, open-source, multi-platform eBook editor

Re:Sigil – A free, open-source, multi-platform eBook editor by ognarb on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:36PM (#24161590)

I have a bad news for you, recently I was interested in how could I write a good QML/Kirigami based ebook reader and looked at all the existing Linux epub reader and each one was using a webview for the epub rendering. But they usually try to integrate better with the rest of the app and your DE so you just don't see it.

EDIT: the only epub reader I know that doesn't use a webview is Okular and the rendering using QTextDocument basic html support is horrible.

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Re:Sigil – A free, open-source, multi-platform eBook editor by xbmcuser on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:19PM (#24162114)

Koreader and coolreader both based on crengine and dont use webview. Koreader devs forked crengine and now seem to be in the process of merging back. https://github.com/koreader/koreader https://github.com/buggins/coolreader

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Re:Sigil – A free, open-source, multi-platform eBook editor by hombre_fatal on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:57PM (#24161849)

I ran into a similar realization when I set out to build my own minimal RSS reader.

Your options are A) web view, B) crappy RSS reader.

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