When you double-clicking on an EPUB file on a Mac, the file will open by default in the built-in “Books” reader.Īlternatively, you can right click on the file and select Open With > Books. Having installed Calibre, you can follow the same instructions as for Sumatra and Adobe Digital Editions (above): Right click on the file, select “Open with”, then select “Calibre”. Among the many features of Calibre is that it provides a comprehensive inventory of all your ebooks and includes the ability to tag or categorise them, which can be very useful for keeping track of all your ebooks in a large library. Alternatively, you can open the app first, then select File > “Add to Library’, and then browse for the downloaded EPUB file.Īdobe Digital Editions is useful because it will maintain a ‘library’ of your digital books and will copy any added books into its folder structure.
You can Right click the downloaded EPUB file then “Open with” Adobe Digital Editions (see graphic above, under Sumatra). Once you have downloaded Sumatra, right click on your downloaded EPUB book and select “Open with” and choose SumatraPDF from your installed applications.Īn alternative is to use Adobe Digital Editions. Don’t be put off by the “PDF” in the name of this app it’s also an excellent EPUB reader. Reading EPUB ebooks on Windows is easiest by installing Sumatra PDF Reader. If they don’t, an online search will produce multiple how-tos for any of these. In most cases the procedures we explain below will be the same for those e-readers, too.
What about other e-readers? By all means use them. The following list of e-reader apps are our suggestions for getting a good installation and reading experience on each of the different device and software platforms. That’s saying nothing of innovations like color e-ink and stylus support.EPUB is the format used by most ebook readers including major e-readers such as Books (Mac) and Kobo etc. These more versatile devices generally run Android, meaning that they can access Kindle libraries via Amazon’s app on top of easily loading up DRM-free files. Meanwhile competitors like Onyx, Xiaomi, and Pocketbook have been offering tons of new tech and form factors. Kindle models have iterated in teeny-tiny increments for years, only gaining USB-C charging support on the latest models. This is entirely speculative on my part, but it seems to me that the widening market of ebook readers is making Amazon sweat a little. Amazon announced support for ePub files in the Send To Kindle and Kindle Documents Service earlier this year. An analogy might be the Sony-branded MP3 players from the early 2000s which didn’t actually play MP3s, instead insisting users convert all their music to the proprietary ATRAC format. Kindle refusing to allow easy use of the most common open digital book standard was a glaring downside to Amazon’s mostly-closed system.
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