# Librum
Librum is an application designed to make reading enjoyable and straightforward for everyone.
It's not just an e-book reader. With Librum, you can manage your own online library and access it from any device anytime, anywhere. It has features like note-taking, bookmarking, and highlighting, while offering customization to make it as personal as you want!
Librum also provides free access to over 70,000 books and personal reading statistics while being free and completely open source.
Note: Librum is still in development, the servers are not public. This means Librum is not yet available for public use.
An alpha release will be available soon, bringing the servers online and making the application available to end users.
A simple and modern interface
Setup and manage your own library
Customize Librum to make it personal to you
For documentation go to Librum's GitHub-wiki
If you like the Librum project, consider donating to the opensource developers at https://www.patreon.com/librumreader.
As a team of opensource developers we rely on donations to continue working on projects like Librum. All help is greatly appreciated.
If you are interested in contributing, feel free to contact us on either:
1. Discord (m_david#0631)
2. Email (contact@librumreader.com)
We are following a pull request workflow where every contribution is sent as a pull request and merged into the dev/develop branch for testing.
Please make sure to run clang format, keep to the conventions used throughout the application and ensure that all tests pass, before submitting any pull request.
For questions, you can reach us under: help@librumreader.com
For business related contact, reach out to us here: contact@librumreader.com
Part of Librum's aim is to work on any platform. No matter where you are or which device you use, you can always continue your book with Librum, as it is cross platform.
We support:
- Windows
- GNU/Linux
- MacOS
- IOS (Coming Soon)
- Android (Coming Soon)
Librum is the best choice for all kinds of books, since Librum supports all major book formats
including:
- PDF
- EPUB
- CBZ (Comic books)
- XPS
- PS
- All plain text formats
- Images
Librum's objective is to make your reading more productive; to that end, we provide you with a variety of features that you can access via a simple and straightforward interface.
These features include:
- A modern e-reader
- A personalized and customizable library
- Book meta-data editing
- A free in-app bookstore with more than 70.000 books
- Book syncing across all of your devices
- Highlighting
- Bookmarking
- Text search
- Unlimited customization
- Note-taking (Coming Soon)
- TTS (Coming Soon)
- Personalized reading statistics (Coming Soon)
- No-login book reading (Coming Soon)
Want a new feature? Feel free to leave a feature request ticket!
Follow this guide to build Librum from source.
sudo apt install python3-venv
)The installation is straight forward, just follow the steps below:
sh
git clone https://github.com/Etovex/Librum.git --recursive
sh
cd Librum
sh
mkdir build-Release
cd build-Release
sh
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=Off -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/<username>/Qt/<version>/gcc_64 ..
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
needs to be set to the Qt install path. Qt is usually installed at /home/name/Qt, so an example might be:sh
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=Off -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/john/Qt/6.5.1/gcc_64 ..
sh
cmake --build .
sh
cmake --install .
Here are solutions to some common errors. If your error is not listed here, please open an issue.
Failed to find required Qt component "Quick".
sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dev
and on fedora its sudo dnf install mesa-libGL-devel
.To build Librum on windows, run the following commands in the Powershell:
sh
git clone https://github.com/Etovex/Librum.git --recursive
sh
cd Librum
sh
mkdir build
cd build
sh
cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=Off -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<Drive>\\Qt\\<version>\\msvc2019_64 ..
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
needs to be set to the Qt install path, for example:sh
cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=Off -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\\Qt\\6.5.1\\msvc2019_64 ..
sh
cmake --build . --config Release
sh
./librum
Here are some things to keep in mind during the build process.
PATH
environment variableSupport coming soon!