I would like to introduce Alexandria, A FOSS ebook reader that I have been working on for a little over a year.
This project was heavily inspired by an existing application for linux called Foliate. However, Foliate lacked some features that I wanted. In particular, cross platform support (Desktop & Mobile), A split screen reader, and cross platform syncing.
While far from complete, I would love feedback on what has been done so far. Currently, only Linux and Windows builds are available. But though utilizing Tauri and responsive UI, the app should be easy to bring across platforms.
Thanks!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooG0MQvKiEs
Project: https://github.com/btpf/Alexandria
Well done!
Just a heads up though, there’s an existing server/client app combo also named Alexandria commonly used in public schools and libraries (in the US anyway). It’s more of a book inventory and check-out system, but the shared name for a related app could still cause some confusion, and might prevent schools and libraries from utilizing your helpful tool.
Just thought you should know. Your efforts deserve to stand on their own!
Thank you so much. I would be open to renaming it and even taking suggestions in the future.
Could always go with a different suffix to keep the name itself - Alexandrio or Alexandrius or something?
Starred. Hopefully it works well with e-ink android, like my boox.
BTW, this is now trending on Hacker News.
Good set of supported formats. Is it safe to assume that text and PDF are also supported?
No. PDF is currently out of scope. The app is built around EpubJS and is really more designed for responsive book formats. Including PDF support would mean incorporating something like pdf.js and would require tons of effort and rewrite which is off course at this moment.
Plain text files are also not supported currently, But this can be included for the 1.0 release. Thanks!
Sadly it seems like the AppImage doesn’t work on Nobara (Fedora spinoff). Any chance we can get a flatpak for it?
I think this is happening because I built against a newer version of glibc. Very sorry about this. I will try to get a Flatpak out as soon as I can. Btw, what screenshot tool are you using? Love the transparency.
It’s Gnome’s default screenshot tool, it adds some padding by default :)
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Amazing! Can’t wait for the android version to come out!
Impressive, very nice. Waiting for fb2 format
I subscribed to releases! Good work so far!
Very nice to see a Tauri app. Any plans to add macOS support?
Never seen a Tauri app yet. Looks very promising. I shall bookmark this for the future.
