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?– mmmmmmCommented Feb 3, 2013 at 19:57
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Funny, iBooks was bundled with 10.9 in Fall 2013 and supports EPUB + PDF.– chronospoonCommented Aug 16, 2022 at 16:57
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answered Apr 22, 2011 at 17:33
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1Great list. It's just too bad that Adobe Digital Editions is so horrid. Commented Apr 22, 2011 at 20:12
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1Yeah, considering adobe should be peerless for digital media, and yet reader and DE are garbage. Commented Apr 22, 2011 at 21:02
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Calibre doesn't seem to show the content of epub books Commented May 7, 2015 at 4:32
Scarlett in the Mac App Store.
answered Jan 20, 2012 at 18:13
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.
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http://calibre-ebook.com/ might be a bit full featured but will do the job.
Bookle is a native epub viewer for OS X, but its development seems to have stopped at a kind of a beta stage. It doesn't support searching, and I didn't really like the full screen mode or the library model.
I have used calibre's ebook-convert to convert some epub files to plain text:
/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert input.epub output.txt
Other alternatives:
E-Book Preview, http://macbookreader.com/wp/bookviewer (v.5.7 is the last full-featured free version) Bookreader Free, http://macbookreader.com/wp/ (there's also a paid version) Kitabu, www.kitabu.me Clearview, Canoe Software (App Store)
Stanza was freeware, copies are still lurking on the Internets.
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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1Bah, I forgot that I had to convert them using Calibre. Commented Apr 22, 2011 at 18:45
http://www.zamzar.com/convert/epub-to-pdf/
Convert the EPUB into PDF for free. They email you the converted file in 2 minutes. Nothing to download, no trial, no partial download with a lure to buy the real deal.
Real deal.
You're welcome.
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1and reading epubs is much better than pdfs as you the user can change the font and the word wrap– mmmmmmCommented Jul 10, 2013 at 10:22