Foliate

A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer, built with GJS and Epub.js.

Website: https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/

Features

• View EPUB files
• Two-page view and scrolled view
• Customize font and line-spacing
• Light, sepia, dark, and invert mode
• Reading progress slider with chapter marks
• Bookmarks and annotations
• Find in book
• Quick dictionary lookup
• Touchpad gestures: use two-finger swipe to turn the page

Installation

Flatpak

Distribution packages

For Arch Linux users, two packages are available on the AUR: foliate (stable version), foliate-git (Git version)

For Void Linux users, foliate is available in Void's official repository. Install using xbps: xbps-install -S foliate

For Fedora users, foliate is available in Fedora's official repository. Install using DNF: sudo dnf install foliate

Optional dependencies

Auto-hyphenation is done using CSS hyphenation. To enbale CSS hyphenation in WebKitGTK, you will need to install the hyphenation rules, e.g., hyphen-en for English, hyphen-fr for French, etc.

Install manually from source

First, you'll need the following dependencies:

• gjs
• webkit2gtk
• libsoup
• meson
• gettext

Then run the follwing commands:

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja
sudo ninja install

To uninstall, run:

sudo ninja uninstall

Build and run from source without installing

You will need the same dependencies listed in this section.

The following commands will build Foliate and install it inside a directory:

meson build --prefix=$PWD/fakeprefix
ninja -C build
ninja -C build install
GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=$PWD/fakeprefix/share/glib-2.0/schemas ./fakeprefix/bin/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate

Screenshots

Dictionary:

Annotations:

Find in book:

Dark mode:

Book metadata display:

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Note: three JavaScript libraries are bundled in this software:

• Epub.js, which is licensed under FreeBSD. The included file is patched to fix futurepress/epub.js#942
• The minified version of JSZip, which is dual-licensed. You may use it under the MIT license or the GPLv3 license. See LICENSE.markdown
• A browserified version of Cheerio, which is licensed under MIT. Cheerio is used to parse and extract data from Wiktionary