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Old 12-19-2020, 09:29 PM   #1
Freakeao
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Best CSS support for EPUBs?

After using FBReader for many years, I thought I would evaluate EPUB readers again. I have some EPUBs with pretty specific publisher CSS and I'm hoping to find a reader that will render these as well as calibre's reader does. And also support my other wanted features.

So far Bookari and PocketBook do the best CSS rendering that I have tested. But neither is quite perfect based on my (possibly too high) requirements. Here are the short comings for me.

Bookari
  • No Image Zoom (for details on maps, etc)
  • A bit slow on my older tablet running 4.4 (yes, I know it's old)
  • very minor, would like to turn off format tag on book cover

PocketBook
  • no TOC display on android 4.4. Works fine on android 9
  • doesn't support grouping by calibre series

For both of the above, I would like more options for the display of the optional progress bar. But that's not a necessity.

Librera
I've started testing and have noticed a couple CSS issues it's not handling correctly so far, and no image zoom AFAICT.

Any info regarding how responsive are the developers of these apps?

Here are the main features I would want in my EPUB reader.
  • full CSS support
  • image zoom
  • reading position sync
  • calibre series support in library
  • OPDS
  • config of informative page footer options. Tick marks?
  • performance on older tablet

If I am not understanding some features of these apps (that I think are missing or broken) I would love to hear about it. Or if there are other apps that would be worth checking out. Thanks.
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