#+title: Reading EPUB in Emacs
#+date: <2022-02-03>

[[https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el/][nov.el]] is pretty handy as an EPUB reader in Emacs.  Before that I was
using the calibre reader, which is slow and resource hungry.

Emacs integration also means you get the following for free:

1. Use [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Follow-Mode.html][follow-mode]] to allow double- or triple-page display.  Note that
   you may need to remove the header line for the text continuation to
   be correct.
2. Annotation can be done with org-capture, which can easily get the
   selected text and link to the EPUB with the correct position.

One feature that I am sorely missing from calibre reader is fulltext
search, which is [[https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el/TODO.org][an item in the todo list of the project]].

Another feature would be an equivalent to Info-index, which could
allow jumping to any section in the book, with completion.