Alexandria - FOSS Cross-Platform E-Book Reader

chaklun, 10 months ago

Impressive, very nice. Waiting for fb2 format

zeemyst, 10 months ago

BTW, this is now trending on Hacker News.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37303960

zeemyst, 10 months ago

Very nice to see a Tauri app. Any plans to add macOS support?

TheMadnessKing, 10 months ago

Awesome. I always wanted something like Foliate for Windows. Looks very promising. Great work OP.

If possible, get your App listed on WinGet too.

thecam, 10 months ago

Never seen a Tauri app yet. Looks very promising. I shall bookmark this for the future.

DetachablePianist, 10 months ago

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!

btpf, 10 months ago

Thank you so much. I would be open to renaming it and even taking suggestions in the future.

FooBarrington, 10 months ago

Could always go with a different suffix to keep the name itself - Alexandrio or Alexandrius or something?

joe, 10 months ago

I subscribed to releases! Good work so far!

jagoan, 10 months ago

Starred. Hopefully it works well with e-ink android, like my boox.

conciselyverbose, 10 months ago

I'll second the interest in working well on a boox. Mostly that means the ability to do decent contrast, which a reader should definitely do anyways.

JoMiran, 10 months ago

Good set of supported formats. Is it safe to assume that text and PDF are also supported?

btpf, 10 months ago

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!

kiithwarrior, 10 months ago

Looks good! Funnily enough I just started a small personal project doing something like this to learn Sveltekit and typescript.

simple, 10 months ago

Sadly it seems like the AppImage doesn’t work on Nobara (Fedora spinoff). Any chance we can get a flatpak for it?

Picture showcasing the error in the terminal

btpf, 10 months ago

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.

simple, 10 months ago

It’s Gnome’s default screenshot tool, it adds some padding by default :)

wispydust, 10 months ago

Amazing! Can’t wait for the android version to come out!

rizoid, 10 months ago

This looks really promising for me. Is there any chance of opds support? I couldn’t find anything on the GitHub page.

btpf, 10 months ago

I have a feeling this will be a heavily requested feature. So there is a chance :)

damo_omad, 10 months ago

Make sure it’s OPDS-PS, it will work great with Kavita :)

Rescuer6394, 10 months ago

is not there yet for me (no android), but i subscribed to releases, and i will be there to see this grow!

Cullen, 10 months ago

Idk how I didn’t know this was a thing, thanks! Also subbed to releases and excited to see this grow