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.

  • everett@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    You’re going to have a web browser installed, right? .epub files are just zips with HTML/images/CSS inside. Extract it and find the HTML file named “toc” and go from there. This won’t be as nice as using a dedicated reading application, but it will save you space.

      • Vilian@lemmy.ca
        1·
        10 months ago

        if he was banned you couldn’t see him anywhere, probably federation being funcky, or your app not updating both at the same time

        • bbbhltz@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Just checked the modlog. I don’t appear to be banned. Funky Federation stuff.