Foliate is an open-source GTK eBook viewer built with GJS and Epub.js. It offers a simple and modern user interface, and features:
- View EPUB files in two-page view or scrolled view
- Customize font, line-spacing, margins, and brightness
- Light, sepia, dark, and invert mode, or add your own custom themes
- Reading progress slider with chapter marks
- Bookmarks and annotations
- Quick dictionary lookup with Wiktionary, Wikipedia, and dictd, or translate text with Google Translate
- Touchpad gestures—use two-finger swipe to turn the page
- Basic text-to-speech support with eSpeak NG and Festival
To install foliate ebook reader in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher:
The software offers Ubuntu .deb package, com.github.johnfactotum.foliate_1.4.0_all.deb at the moment, which is available to download at the release page:
Grab the package, then either double-click to install it, or open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/com.github.johnfactotum.foliate_*.deb
Once installed, launch the software from your system application menu and enjoy!
(Optional) To remove the software, simply run command in terminal:
sudo apt remove --auto-remove foliate
For those who prefer the Flatpak package, Foliate is also available in Flathub repository.
