Material You 3 eBook/audiobook reader — Episteme fork + bookshelf-api/ABS
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General improvments (#114)
* Add "Keep Screen On" feature to PDF and Epub readers.

* Add `rawLibraryFiles` to `MainViewModel` and improve file path resolution in `SharedComposables`.

Specifically:
- Updated `MainViewModel` state and UI logic to track and provide unfiltered library files.
- Enhanced file path formatting in `SharedComposables` to better handle Document, Tree, and primary storage URIs.
- Added scrollable support for long text values in `DetailItem` composable.
- Passed `rawLibraryFiles` to `FolderSyncScreen` to ensure sync logic uses the base file list.

* Update info bar background and text colors in EpubReaderScreen to match the selected theme.

* Prevent accidental UI bar toggles immediately after scrolling in EPUB vertical mode.

* feat: implement EPUB highlights sync and legacy migration

- Implement Cloud and Local Folder sync for EPUB highlights.
- Add highlight JSON serialization/deserialization helpers in EpubReaderAnnotations.
- Implement automatic migration of highlights from SharedPreferences to the Database on book open.
- Add cleanup logic to remove legacy SharedPreferences data after successful DB migration.
- Update RecentFilesRepository to trigger local folder metadata sync when highlights are modified.
- Update FolderSyncWorker to pull highlights and custom names from linked folder metadata.

* Update intent filters
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Episteme Reader Icon  Episteme Reader

A native Android document reader application built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

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Episteme Reader Preview

Overview

Episteme Reader is an offline-first, privacy-focused document and e-book reader that supports PDF, EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, Markdown, HTML, and plain text.

Note: This is the Open Source (OSS) edition of Episteme Reader. The version available on the Google Play Store is built from this core but includes additional proprietary features.

Features

Supported Formats

  • Documents: PDF
  • E-books: EPUB, MOBI, AZW3
  • Text: MD, TXT, HTML

PDF Features

  • Viewing Modes: Vertical Scroll and Paginated view.
  • Ink Annotations: Draw directly on pages using Pen, Highlighter, and Eraser tools.
  • Text Annotations: Add text notes anywhere on the page using system or custom fonts.

E-Book Features

  • Parsing: Native parsing for MOBI/AZW3 via libmobi and EPUB via Jsoup.
  • Customization: Adjust font size, line spacing, and margins.
  • Custom Fonts: Support for importing user-provided font files (.ttf, .otf).

General

  • Text-to-Speech (TTS): Read documents aloud using the system TTS engine.
  • File Management: Built-in library organization.

Architecture

  • UI: 100% Jetpack Compose (Material3).
  • Architecture: MVVM with Unidirectional Data Flow.
  • Database: Room (SQLite) for metadata and annotations.
  • PDF Engine: pdfium-android (Native PDFium bindings).
  • EPUB Engine: Utilizes standard WebView for vertical scrolling mode, and a custom rendering engine for paginated mode.
  • Mobi Engine: Custom JNI bindings to libmobi.

Building from Source

  1. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/Aryan-Raj3112/episteme.git
    cd episteme
    
  2. Build: Open in Android Studio and run the ossDebug variant, or build from the command line:

    ./gradlew assembleOssDebug
    

    The APK will be generated at:

    app/build/outputs/apk/oss/debug/Episteme-oss-v{version}-oss-debug.apk
    

Open Source Libraries

This project is made possible by the Android open-source ecosystem:

  • Core & UI: AndroidX, Jetpack Compose, Kotlinx Serialization
  • Document Engines: PdfiumAndroidKt (PDF), libmobi (MOBI/AZW3), Google WOFF2 (Fonts)
  • Parsers: Jsoup (HTML/EPUB), Flexmark (Markdown)
  • Media & Image Loading: Coil, Media3 (ExoPlayer)
  • Utilities: Room (Database), Timber (Logging)

Contributors

License

This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). See the LICENSE file for details.

Support

If you find Episteme Reader useful and want to support its development, please consider sponsoring. Thank you!

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