Open Source Ebook Readers for Linux

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  1. calibre icon
     1481 likes

    Free e-book manager offering library management, multi-format conversion, syncing to devices, news download as e-books, built-in viewer, editor, and privacy.

    • Ebook Reader
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Homebrew
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    111 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good47 reviews
  2. Okular icon
     478 likes

    Multi-platform document viewer supporting PDF, comics, EPUB, images, and Markdown with annotation tools, sidebar navigation, and text-to-speech features.

    • PDF Reader
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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    113 alternatives
    4.3
    Very Good46 reviews
  3. MuPDF icon
     157 likes

    Highly versatile PDF and XPS solution offering customizable rendering and viewing with features like digital signatures, redactions, and annotations.

    • PDF Reader
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Xfce
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    89 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good12 reviews
  4. KOReader icon
     71 likes

    An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Linux and Android devices.

    • Ebook Reader
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    • Android
    • AppImageHub
    • Kobo Books
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
    • Android Tablet
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    66 alternatives
  5. Readest icon
     23 likes

    Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience.

    • Ebook Reader
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Android Tablet
    Annotation
    14 alternatives
  6. Kavita icon
     26 likes

    Lightning fast with a slick design, Kavita is a rocket-fueled self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats. Install to start reading and share your server with your friends. book reader, self hosted, manga, comics, free, manhwa, e readers, electronic...

    • Ebook Reader
    • FreemiumOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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    170 alternatives
  7. Thorium Reader icon
     18 likes

    Thorium Reader is a free, open source multi-language EPUB reader for Windows 10, MacOS and Linux. It's privacy aware and highly accessible for visually impaired and dyslexic people.

    Thorium Reader screenshot 1
    38 alternatives
  8. Cool Reader  icon
     66 likes

    Cool Reader is fast and small cross-platform XML/CSS based eBook reader for desktops and handheld devices. Understands a number of text document formats, suppurt OPDS (in new ui-opengl version). Fully customizable palette, text reformatting with any font size, font...

    • Discontinued
    • Ebook Reader
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Haiku
    Android version
    93 alternatives
  9. Peruse icon
     3 likes

    Peruse is a comic book reader and creator for desktop and mobile devices. It is part of the Plasma Mobile app collection.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • KDE
    We welcome you to Peruse, so you can continue reading
    8 alternatives
  10. Arianna icon
     2 likes

    An ebook reader and library management app supporting ".epub" files. Arianna discovers your books automatically, and sorts them by categories, genres and authors.

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    28 alternatives
  11. xCHM icon
     21 likes

    xCHM is a cross-platform GPL frontend for CHMLIB (http://www.jedrea.com/chmlib/) written with the wxWidgets framework.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    15 alternatives
  12. Lucidor icon
     9 likes

    Read e-books in the EPUB file format, and organize and browse catalogs in the OPDS format. Lucidor depends on Pale Moon being installed.

    • Discontinued
    • Ebook Reader
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Moodle
    • Pale Moon
    Main menu
    51 alternatives
  13. Books icon
     1 like

    Books is a simple application to access and organize your e-books on GNOME. It is meant to be a simple and elegant replacement for using a file manager to deal with e-books. It's included in the default set of core applications since GNOME 3.16.

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    12 alternatives