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submitted 10 months ago by grey@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago

MuPDF https://mupdf.com/ It does PDF and Epub and is pretty light.

epy https://github.com/wustho/epy is a cli Epub reader

[-] grey@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

Also, are you banned? I can only see your post in my inbox, but not on the thread.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 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.org 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

I have no idea how I would be banned, I'm not super active. How can I find out if I've been banned?

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