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.

  • beerclue@lemmy.world
    13·
    11 months ago

    As far as I know, MuPDF is not that heavy, and can view both PDFs and EPUBs (and others).

    I personally use zathura, which is a very, very light weight document viewer, has vi style key bindings, and has plugins for viewing PDF, EPUB, CB, and others. Works pretty well in a keyboard centric desktop environment (I use Hyprland).

  • ardent_abysm@lemm.ee
    81·
    11 months ago

    Assuming you have a Firefox derived browser installed, you could just add an EPUB extension to the browser.

  • everett@lemmy.ml
    1·
    11 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.