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| Lector | |
|---|---|
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| Initial release | November 2017 |
| Stable release | 0.5.1 / 9 March 2019 |
| Written in | Python,Qt |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | 8 languages |
List of languages Chinese, Czech, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish | |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | github |
| Repository | |
Lector is a freee-book reading application for desktopLinux systems that also has basic collection management features.[1]
Lector was developed by a Spanish programmer known asBasioMeusPuga[2] He started publishing code on GitHub in November 2017.[3] and released on March 10, 2018.
Initially there was no support for annotations or text highlighting, neither for PDF files. PreliminaryPDF support viaPoppler was released in spring 2018 in version 0.2.[4][1]
It deals with both popular e-book formats and comic books:EPUB,Mobipocket,AZW(3/4),comic book archive (CBR/CBZ),Portable Document Format (PDF),DjVu,FictionBook (FB2)[5] It does not support files withdigital rights management.[2]
Lector opens to an overview of the book collection ("library"), which can be sorted by the content of different metadata fields or last reading time and can search/filter titles. It can be configured as an array of book cover thumbnails or as a simple table. A book metadata editor is available via the context menu.
The reading view has a distraction-free mode, saves the reading position[1] and offers zoom controls, full-text search, text annotations[1] and an integrated dictionary.Text rendering (font, size, spacing) and page color can be configured. It can save several configuration profiles, switch between them and export them.Bookmarks can be organized via a sidebar.
Lector is released asFree Software, and thus with its completesource code, under the terms of theGNU General Public License in version 3 or later onGitHub. It has been included in the defaultpackage repositories ofArch (AUR),openSUSE[6] andGentoo.
The application is written inPython, usingQt 5 widgets viaPyQt for the user interface. Given a folder with e-books, it indexes them in place. Metadata and cover images are stored in aSQLite database.[1]