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There's FBReader, which is ... OK.

My gripes are:

The controls are nonstandard. I haven't used it in a bit, but advancing the text with spacebar would be just peachy.

Default formatting. It's not bad, but the most annoying, especially on today's widescreen 16:9 format screens, is that while margins can be set, text width cannot. I find 35 - 45 em is about perfect for text, yet cannot set this for ePub.

Sigh.

I actually usually use Calibre or Pandoc to create HTML, then write my own CSS and serve those locally.

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PS: Co-founder at BookFusion

BookFusion can be used instead of Calibre to not only manage and organize your eBook library but also to:

1. Read ePub, PDF and other major format ebooks 2. Send your eBooks to your kindle device if you have one 3. Easily share your eBooks with friends and family the way you would a physical book.

Web: https://bookfusion.com/ Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bookfusion... IOS: Coming in 2016

I would be happy if you would take the platform for a spin and send me your feedback at dc@bookfusion.com

We have lots of updates for 2016

Thanks, I'll definitely be taking a look.

My frustrations with poor publication curation is ... a major pain point.

I would love:

1. A tool that would present HTML content in some standardised, simple, format. E.g., Readability, Instapaper, Pocket, Firefox Reader Mode.

2. Include metadata. Perhaps a somewhat IMDB-type facility for sources which don't include good metadata. ISBN and DOI work well for traditional printed book and scientific article works, but other online content is ... less well structured.

3. Tags. I've detailed a possibly workable general tagging ontology at Ello (https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/FTpX7LWNFjtOpYGu5xRkHg). That plus user-assignable tags, and the ability to subset/select by multiple tags would be ... nice.

4. Bibliography generation.

I've looked at, kinda, Calibre, Zotero, Mendelay (rejected on account of Elsevier ownership), and a few other tools.

Sharing between desktop (Linux) and Android other than via Kindle would be tres, tres cool.

>but advancing the text with spacebar would be just peachy.

Yeah, that's the first thing I configure on a new installation of FBReader. That should really be default.

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