ePubs (electronic publications) are the extension of eBooks or electronic books, which are digital books that can be read on electronic devices such as cell phones, tablets, as well as laptops and computers. The habit of reading books has been popular since ancient times and is passed on from generation to generation; The only difference is the way of reading. People used to read from books, but now they prefer to read from digital books because they can be easily downloaded and stored on computer without occupying physical space, so people can easily carry their own huge collection of books on the computer Hard drive can manage computer hard drive.
ePubs is the format of the digital books, which helps the readers to set the size of the text of the eBooks according to the display size, bookmark, highlight and make notes on the pages, and provide a library to manage the collection for the readers and in size changeable fonts. The ePubs can be installed on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, and in this article we will explore the methods that we can use to read the ePubs on Ubuntu 22.04.
How to read ePubs on Ubuntu
There are different packages that can be installed on Ubuntu that support the format of ePubs so that we can read ePubs:
1 : caliber
Caliber is the e-book manager that can be downloaded and installed without subscription costs because it’s free. It is used to manage the e-books on the Linux distributions. Caliber can be used to read the e-books and download and read the magazines from various websites and other online platforms. In addition, you can manage the e-books with caliber anywhere and anytime. The caliber package can be downloaded from the caliber official website and installed with the command:
1 | $sudo –v && wget –NV –O– https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin |
2 : FBReader
The next popular supporter of ePubs format is FBReader, which is also an e-book reader that can be installed on the Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and Linux distributions. The primary formats supported by FBReader are ePubs and fb2, but besides these other formats like HTML, Plain Text and Mobi are also supported by FBReader. The engine used by FBReader is owned by its own development team and is light and fast.
The FBReader package is available in the Ubuntu repository and can be installed with the command:
1 | $ sudo apt install fbreader –j |
3: bookworm
Bookworm is another tool used to read ePubs as well as other formats including PDF and Mobi by offering its users a simple and accessible interface. The Bookworm includes various tools such as highlighting passages, using text-to-speech, and scanning documents using OCR (optical character recognition).
Bookworm is open source and available on GitHub. To install Bookworm, we simply first add its PPA repository with the add apt repository command:
1 | Add $sudo–suitable–repository ppa:bookworm–team/bookworm |
Then update the repository with the update command:
1 | Update $ sudo apt |
Finally, using the apt package manager, install Bookworm’s package:
1 | $ sudo apt install com.github.babluboy.bookworm |
4 : Koodo reader
To read ePubs format of e-books, Koodo Reader is also a popular choice of many Linux users, besides, it can be downloaded from Github and easily installed on various operating systems like Linux and Windows. The outstanding features of Koodo Reader are its speech-to-text and translation support.
To install Koodo Reader, let’s first download its deb package:
1 | $wget –chttps://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader/releases/download/v1.3.9/Koodo.Reader-1.3.9.deb |
Then list the content to confirm Koodo Reader download:
1 | as |
Finally, the dpkg was used to install the Koodo Reader deb package:
1 | $ sudo dpkg –I Koodo.reader–1.3.9.deb |
5 : GNOME BOOKS
The last popular option for reading ePubs is GNOME BOOKS, also known as BOOKS, a simple tool for managing the e-books on GNOME, and GNOME BOOKS is included in Ubuntu’s default repository and can be installed by running the following command:
1 | $ sudo apt install gnome–Books –j |
Conclusion
ePubs is a mobi-like format of e-books that can be used to read and also manage the downloaded e-books. In this article, we have explored the five most popular methods we can use to read ePubs on Ubuntu 22.04.
