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Old 04-05-2020, 12:54 AM   #676
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
IIRC, uninstall the new one. It will revert to the old one.

I generally prefer not to read in the browser. If I must read on my desktop, instead of a mobile device, the choice under Windows is SumatraPDF. Aside from PDFs, it also handles ePub and Mobi.

Which "bloat ridden alternatives" did you have in mind?
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Dennis
If i uninstall it, it will undoubtedly nag me to install the new one, and one day something in Windows itself wont work.

I didn't use Edge as a web browser, only as a epub viewer, mainly when proof-reading/copy-editing. It had a shim (Edge Launcher or something) that provided the wherewithal to integrate into 3rd party software.

"bloat ridden alternatives" - all the epub readers that want to be a librarian too, all those that try to emulate a paper book, all those that have popups that hide the text, all those that take 'too long' to open an epub. Haven't looked at Sumatra for a while, last time I looked it wasn't as fast as its fans claimed it would be - sure it was faster than Acrobat, but so is a wet week. And it wanted to be the default for everything under the sun -- I'm not fond of Swiss army knives either.

I'm using Windows Quicklook a bit, its lightning fast but the ePub plugin in particular has a rather clunky UI. Good for what its name says - a quick look, for epub proof-reading/copy-editing I am using Sigil's PageEdit.

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