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Episteme Reader – privacy-focused document and e-book reader

October 2, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Episteme Reader is a privacy-focused e-book and document reader with broad format support, PDF annotation, library tools and offline use.

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apvlv – Vim-like graphical document viewer

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

apvlv is a Vim-like graphical document viewer for Linux supporting PDF, EPUB, TXT, FB2, MOBI, CBZ and HTML with keyboard-driven control.

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Zathura – customizable and functional document viewer

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Zathura is an open source plugin-based document viewer. It currently has plugins available for PDF, PostScript, and DjVu.

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Evince – document viewer for multiple document formats

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports PDF, Postscript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI formats.

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MuPDF – lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

MuPDF is a lightweight open source PDF, XPS, EPUB and CBZ viewer. It offers a straightforward solution.

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okular – universal document viewer

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Okular is KDE’s document viewer for PDFs, ebooks, comics and images, with annotations, digital signatures, forms and presentation tools.

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CoolReader – lightweight XML and CSS eBook reader

July 6, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

CoolReader is a lightweight Linux eBook reader built around CREngine with broad reflowable format support, CSS styling and flexible GUIs.

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5 Excellent Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

December 3, 2017 Steve Emms Productivity, Software, Utilities

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. The format includes a subset of the PostScript page description programming language, a font-embedding system, and a structural storage system.

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