An open-source ebook reader for Android, and a client for calibre-web, Komga, BookOrbit, liseur-sync and any OPDS catalog: EPUBs on your phone or in sync with book server.
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| The shelf, sorted by what you are currently reading. | Distraction-free page with notes and bookmarks. | Read aloud with device voices or your own speech server. |
More screenshots here
Liseur renders EPUBs with the Readium engine, in open typefaces (Literata, Vollkorn, Atkinson Hyperlegible, Inter) or whatever the publisher shipped. Four reading themes: Light, Sepia, Dark, OLED Black. Margins, line spacing, brightness, and page-turn vs. continuous-scroll are adjustable per book or library-wide. Auto-scroll runs at a set pace and continues across chapter boundaries, with on-page controls to pause it, change the speed or stop.
A footer shows the page you are on, how much of the chapter is left, and time remaining. Highlights, margin notes, bookmarks, and dictionary lookups are inline; book-level notes live in the notebook. Marking a passage offers one colour, and you tick which of the six you want along with the colour new marks use. Footnotes open as a card over the page rather than sending you to the back of the book. A selected passage can be translated by Android's own translator on the phone, or by a server you add, and from there the page itself can be translated sentence by sentence as you read.
The library is one shelf whatever the source: local folders, calibre-web, Komga, BookOrbit, liseur-sync, or any OPDS catalog. Series are grouped into stacks tracking reading order, progress, and missing volumes. "Download all books" fills the shelf from a connected server in one go. An empty library also offers free books from Project Gutenberg: browse it by language and shelf, and download the books you want before there is anything to connect to.
Reading position syncs across devices through calibre-web, Komga,
BookOrbit or liseur-sync,
down to the exact sentence on the last three. BookOrbit positions travel as EPUB CFIs.
A Custom connection can be an OPDS address, a kosync address, or both, so a plain catalog and a sync server that know nothing about each other still add up to a library that follows you. What each server can and cannot do is in docs/SERVER_CAPABILITIES.md.
With liseur-sync you get extras, like a per-device settings backup, and better insights of your reading progress across devices.
Two home-screen widgets show the current book cover or a paged shelf of your library covers. Tap a cover to read. Neither needs configuration.
No trackers, no analytics, no ads, no subscriptions. Liseur only talks to the servers and dictionary sources you configure. See the privacy policy.
- liseur-sync: Lightweight self-hosted library and sync server. Watched folders, browse, download, positions and reading stats. This will give you the best "kindle/just work" experience compared to the other sync servers.
liseur-desktop: Desktop version of Liseur (abandoned).
See DEVELOPER.md for build instructions and architecture notes,
and docs/SERVER_CAPABILITIES.md for what each
server exposes, what Liseur implements against it, and why the gaps remain.
Liseur ([li.zœʁ], lee-ZUR) is the French word for an avid reader or book lover. It sounds dignified, like the English word leisure.
Another inspiration was a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir portraying Claude Monet as "Le Liseur":
- Fediverse - <@chmouel@chmouel.com>
- Twitter - <@chmouel>
- Blog - <https://blog.chmouel.com>
MIT. Bundled fonts are under the SIL Open Font License.