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I would prefer a good and free solution for reading epub books on OS X.

It looks that by default OS X is not able to open epub books.

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possible duplicate of Is there a practical ePub book reader program for Mac OS X? – Mark Feb 3 at 19:57

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Calibre

ePubRead Firefox Addon

Crossplatform Sony book reader

Mac OS X Port of FBReader

Adobe Digital Editions

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Great list. It's just too bad that Adobe Digital Editions is so horrid. – Philip Regan Apr 22 '11 at 20:12
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Yeah, considering adobe should be peerless for digital media, and yet reader and DE are garbage. – hobs Apr 22 '11 at 21:02
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Stanza is a very good epub reader for OSX that is free.

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Down vote, link doesnt work! – Sorin Sbarnea Jul 10 '12 at 18:38
Stanza was the best ereader but Amazon bought it and they don't want a epub reader – Mark Feb 3 at 19:53
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Amazon Kindle for Mac works quite well. You can download it directly from Amazon, or get it via the Mac App Store.

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This reads .mobi files not .epub – Mark Apr 22 '11 at 18:21
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Bah, I forgot that I had to convert them using Calibre. – Dave DeLong Apr 22 '11 at 18:45
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Scarlett in the Mac App Store.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scarlett/id457009670?mt=12

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http://calibre-ebook.com/ might be a bit full featured but will do the job.

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I use Calibre on my desktop machines; it's very feature rich and can convert to and from .epub so you can use it with most of the "specialty" readers. You can even "tweak" your books to fix minor typos and oddities from conversions. I don't think that is up to the normal Mac usability, but it does work.

I've also used the Kobo reader to read various epubs; it has some nicer page layout than Calibre and allows comments and highlighting that is pretty unique to Kobo. I'll admit I haven't used it on Mac, but I think it's great on Windows and Android. I'm pretty sure it's Stanza on my iPad, though.

Ted

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