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That's just the UX of most ebook reader application, it's not a limitation of the format itself. The conceptual model of the most popular epub readers are built
by iscream26 3y ago
That's just the UX of most ebook reader application, it's not a limitation of the format itself. The conceptual model of the most popular epub readers are built upon the concept of a personal library, but that's just because, as you said: "most existing epubs are books". There's nothing stopping anyone from creating an epub file that's not a transcription of a book.
Calibre's e-book viewer should cover your use-case just fine, and in KDE is quite easy to set that viewer as the default application for epub files.
- kwhitefoot 3y agoNot just KDE, any Linux desktop should be able to do this. It certainly works perfectly well in Linux Mint Cinnamon and Xfce. It's a long time since I used Windows but I think it works there too.
- pasc1878 3y agoCalibre works on both Windows and Mac.
- lxgr 3y agoIt doesn’t: I don’t want pagination for reference documents, for one thing – I want fast seamless scrolling. Not sure if that’s still the case, but on macOS, it used to be hard to open more than one ePub file at a time using Calibre too – also an essential feature for research. Finally, Calibre viewer edits each opened ePub by inserting a “last reading location” metadata file by default! It’s possible to deactivate in the settings, but I need to remember to do it for every new installation. It’s an absolute no-go as a default for a document viewer.
- wolverine876 3y agoI wouldn't assume that any application doesn't edit documents, especially metadata. My PDF application remembers the last location and zoom level viewed, though I don't know how.