When Daniel Foré created elementary OS, one of his goals was to create a Linux-based operating system that closely resembled macOS. Anyone who has tried it will have realized that he succeeded: its interface is simple and visually appealing, thanks in part to the applications created with the operating system made famous by the Pantheon desktop environment in mind. One such application is a bookworm that strongly resembles Apple Books, which until recently was known as iBooks.
Bookworm is an ebook reader , but it also has library functions. This means that you can not only read ebooks with this app, but they will also be stored and organized, as you can see in the screenshot at the top of this article. If the book has a cover that the software can detect, you'll see it as if you were in a bookstore. If the cover doesn't exist or can't be detected, Bookworm will create a generic one with the book's title.
Bookworm, from elementary OS to your Linux PC
Right now, Bookworm is on version v.1.1.2 and is compatible with these formats:
- EPUB.
- PDF.
- MOBI.
- FB2.
- CBR.
- CBZ.
Bookworm offers all the configuration features we could want, such as changing the text size, changing the font (even uploading our own), controlling line spacing and margins, making annotations, or a dark mode.
If you're interested in trying it, a Flatpak package is available at this link , and the openSUSE version is available at this other link . It's also available from the repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bookworm-team/bookworm sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install com.github.babluboy.bookworm
Its developer says that using the previous repository may cause dependency problems , now or in the future, in which case they recommend installing the elementary OS repository with this command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/stable
Bookworm is a great option for reading e-books but (joke mode) it has a major flaw: it is not useful for reading Linux Addicts ... unless the articles are exported to PDF, but that would be material for another article.
