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PDF and/or ebook reader that allows you to make comments, annotation and/or underline/highlight text?
If you don't mind KDE dependencies, Okular (the KDE document viewer) offers all that: Highlight, sticky notes and other annotations. You can install it straight from the repositories.
If you'd rather ...
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Linux alternative to Adobe Digital editions
I created a program called Knock to convert ACSM files to DRM-free EPUB files at the command line:
[user@computer:~]$ knock ./example.acsm
downloading the file from Adobe...
removing DRM from the file....
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Is there any tool which convert book to html format with Table of Contents?
I have tried Calibre; it has created smooth HTML TOC and HTML content give it a try if you have this problem. It pulls all sections and chapters and creates an organized Table of Contents like this:
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PDF and/or ebook reader that allows you to make comments, annotation and/or underline/highlight text?
Foxit Reader is available for Linux.
I've used it in Windows OS and I'm satisfied. You can annotate, highlight, add text (with different font and size) to anywhere on a page, sign your document, and ...
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Software for writing and laying out a book
Here sounds LaTeX like the tool to go!
LaTeX is good for formatting and writing books. It automates stuff like text and image alignment and it compiles into pdf.
It is a language you have to learn, ...
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Linux alternative to Adobe Digital editions
I will try to list all the solutions I've found.
Tested solution: It's working, and very easy.
First install Wine on your Linux OS. Then download Adobe Digital editions.
Then install the file you ...
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Book downloader analogue of youtube-dl?
There is an open source project hosted by CodePlex, that lets you download Google Books for free by using the Google Books Downloader which is available for free.
Google Books Downloader Lite is a ...
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Search 15,000 PDF or EPUB books
You can give DocFetcher a chance.
I'm using it to search inside more than 1000 PDF files. The first results appear instantly while all others are found in a few seconds. It can also handle epub and a ...
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Software to create ebooks with markdown
Try pandoc. If you want something that incorporates editing and publishing, check out LeanPub.
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Linux software to convert HTML to epub?
I think Sigil can be your solution.
Some Sigil features:
- Free and open source software under GPLv3
- Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Full UTF-16 support
- EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 spec ...
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A PDF viewer that can save and reopen tabs at the exact page one last stopped at
You can check out zotero.
It has an amazing pdf reader where you can open the same pdf in multiple tabs, and it'll reopen to whatever position it was closed at. You have amazing options to annotate ...
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Online service for reading books
It seems https://play.google.com/books provides a reading experience for the browser, but lacks two things important for me:
PDF import, which is important for reading studies and scanned books.
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What WYISWYG/GUI eBook editor do you reccomend?
I have experience with Kotobee Author and I can tell you that it is what you're looking for. Kitaboo as well I think but I haven't used it much. Only Kotobee. the thing is Kotobee now offers widgets (...
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Creating ebooks from the terminal in Linux
I would suggest taking a look at the Sphinx-Doc project - it can take a set of ReStructuredText (similar to markdown) &/or Markdown pages including place holders for images in a number of formats ...
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Creating ebooks from the terminal in Linux
You have the possibility to create an ebook in makdown, using then the pandoc software.
You will get all information here: Creating an ebook with pandoc
pandoc is available for Windows, linux, macOS, ...
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Simple multile-format ebook reader for macOS (no backup/sync, library management, etc.)
Answering my own question: mupdf-gl build from Homebrew doesn't work (it seems to be expecting X11, even though it's the OpenGL build), but grabbing the latest tarball from the site and installing ...
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Linux software to convert HTML to epub?
Convert the HTML to PDF with headless google-chrome and shell scripting,
and then convert the PDF to epub format
(perhaps with an online coverter).
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Linux ebook reader without library
Recommended
If you already have the calibre package installed but don't want to add it to calibre's library, you can use the included ebook-viewer application from that package to avoid calibre's ...
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Linux ebook reader without library
FBReader - C++/Qt application. Very fast e-book reader, supports ePub, fb2, mobi and other formats.
It does have a library button -- all books that you have opened will be added there -- but it is ...
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Software for writing pages with pictures and custom shaped text fields
You can use Microsoft PowerPoint for that, it would let you do all the things that you have mentioned in this post and in addition you can save it as pdf, website or in whatever format, that you want.
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Get difference of two regular literature texts (not source code), with markup on changes
Assuming you can use a console program for this, I'd suggestvimdiff. it's a tool packaged with the Vim editor that takes two files as input, and presents them side-by-side with synchronized scrolling ...
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iBooks replacement on Windows 10 (PDF/ePub reader)
I can recommend Calibre for both managing e-book readers as well as stand-alone e-book reading.
It will manage multiple file types including PDF and epub, along with mobi and so many others.
The ...
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PDF and/or ebook reader that allows you to make comments, annotation and/or underline/highlight text?
Mendeley allows you to view, highlight & annotate PDFs via any of:
The web interface
The Desktop Client which is available for Windows, OS-X or Linux
The iPhone, iPad, iPod client
The Android App
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The best software to create book?
Did you try Madoko?
http://www.madoko.net
http://www.madoko.org/reference.html (or *.pdf)
You can connect to your local documents offline via the npm package madoko.
Also, there's a video ...
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What to use to publish a free book online?
How about gitbook? It has offline editor, and this is example of novel published using gitbook. Go to https://boris-marinov.gitbooks.io/the-case/content/01.html to see example using comment inside ...
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Software for writing and laying out a book
If you truly want to get into publishing, which will be more complex than MS Word, but will give belter, more professional results, then you ought to look into the excellent, and free Scribus.
It is ...
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Web-based, open source book publishing application
I would recommend GitBook.
GitBook is a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful books using GitHub/Git and Markdown (or AsciiDoc).
You can publish your book via GitBook (web-...
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Paid software for full research paper, journal article viewing
If gratis is OK, you can do the following:
Install a torrent client
See Bulk download Sci-Hub papers
You can still donate to them.
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Word processing software that allows drawing and writing at the same time
Microsoft Word (version 16.42) should meet your needs.
Distraction-free achieved through Focus mode.
The print layout is your drawing mode.
Supports stylus (at least it supports my Wacom Intuos ...
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