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Posted April 01, 2020
I use potplayer for playing video files and I'm a fan of the simple drag and drop design of the program. Is there anything similar for books?

I looked at several different articles but most of them were several years old with programs I had already tried. So I'm curious what other people here might be using.
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Posted April 01, 2020
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theslitherydeee: Good program for reading epub and pdf books on pc?
For PDFs: Foxit Reader https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/
For ePubs: Calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/download
Posted April 01, 2020
Sumatra PDF : https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html
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Posted April 01, 2020
Calibre is the best option. It will display most things, is good at organising. Don’t particularly like the way it stores things, but overall very good an accessible and free. And can connect to ereaders.
Posted April 02, 2020
A second vote for Sumatra.

I've heard good things about Calibre, but as nightcrawler says, it has a weirdly strict way to store its library that I'm not fond of. It would be more fair to call it an ebook management system rather than just a reader.
It takes your pdf/epub/whatever, stores it in the location that IT wants to (to be fair, you can specify the parent directory for all your ebooks, but that's the amount of control you get), using the folder structure it wants to. Since I have a specific way I like storing my library, I am not fond of it.
Post edited April 02, 2020 by babark
Posted April 02, 2020
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babark: A second vote for Sumatra.
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Posted April 02, 2020
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babark: A second vote for Sumatra.

I've heard good things about Calibre, but as nightcrawler says, it has a weirdly strict way to store its library that I'm not fond of. It would be more fair to call it an ebook management system rather than just a reader.
It takes your pdf/epub/whatever, stores it in the location that IT wants to (to be fair, you can specify the parent directory for all your ebooks, but that's the amount of control you get), using the folder structure it wants to. Since I have a specific way I like storing my library, I am not fond of it.
Yes, I also use Sumatra as a pdf reader, it’s good for that. Calibre store books in folders for author, then book. So you can’t order by series, or genre and such like. Am looking at buying a tool to do all my organisation (or maybe just use a tagging tool:
https://www.tagspaces.org/
For example. However I also want tools to validate structure and such like, so will end up building one.
Posted April 02, 2020
Thanks for the replies. I had never heard of Sumatra before. I tried using Calibre in the past but wasn't a big fan of the way it is formatted.
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