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I use eww to read online articles in Emacs instead of in a browser because it is less distracting and I can take notes in an org-mode quickly without switching applications.
I wonder how feasible it is to read an e-books in epub, or pdf format in Emacs? I found the epubmode.el on emacswiki.org but it is broken and haven't been updated since 2011.
I recommend emacs-ereader. My experience is that it errs out less often while parsing an epub than nov and it too is installable as a package. Further, it supports annotations, integrates decent with Org, in a slightly more primitive way than the awesome pdf-tools does for PDFs.
Try nov (installable via melpa). It is a reasonable start for reading ePUBs in Emacs.
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I use eww to read online articles in Emacs instead of in a browser because it is less distracting and I can take notes in an org-mode quickly without switching applications.
I wonder how feasible it is to read an e-books in epub, or pdf format in Emacs? I found the epubmode.el on emacswiki.org but it is broken and haven't been updated since 2011.
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I recommend emacs-ereader. My experience is that it errs out less often while parsing an epub than nov and it too is installable as a package. Further, it supports annotations, integrates decent with Org, in a slightly more primitive way than the awesome pdf-tools does for PDFs.
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