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Anyone knows if there is a ebook reader that supports Android/Linux and can sync book/progress between machines?

It's been awhile since I've used it but Moon+ Reader on Android can sync progress to google drive. At the time the syncing wasn't super reliable, but it worked sometimes.

I have no idea if syncing reading position works because I only use it on one machine but Moon+ is awesome in other respects.

It supports Support epub, pdf, mobi, chm, cbr, cbz, umd, fb2, txt, html, rar, zip or OPDS

Its nicely customizable, takes up the whole screen when running including status area, has a night mode, can autorotate or pin the orientation.

Personally I really like using it plus calibre companion to sync files with my computer.

A stupid workaround I use:

I copy-paste some sentence from a book into my note taking app, and search for that same text on my other device. Note-taking is easier to sync than reading positions themselves.

Calibre saves the reading position inside the metadata of the book, so you'd need a way to re-download the book every time you open it.

This is exactly what BookFusion does. Your able to read on Desktop(Windows, Linux, OSX) via Web and can read on Android and iOS devices while having your reading progress, bookmarks, and highlights synced across all devices.

You can learn more at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/cloud-library

PS: Founder of BookFusion

Looks amazing! Signed up and I notice that the web reader uses red color for text, is there anything I can change it to just black?

Thank you for giving it a try. The color for the fonts are set based on what is present in the EPUB or document. We currently allow you to change the font type, background and other options but not the color of the font currently.

I have added this to the development roadmap and you will see it deployed by Q2 this year

I use Google Play Books. There's no Linux client, but the browser works fine.

https://read.amazon.com/ works but it's only for Amazon books

Polar will support Android / Linux and iOS and web in about 2-4 weeks.

We're working on both mobile support and web at the same time.

The cool thing is that the multi-device cloud sync support will also work with the web version.

I use Lithium which the pro version can sync between Android devices. Doesn't do the Linux part as far as I'm aware, though.

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