Thorium Reader for Mac
Easy to use EPUB reading app.
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Thorium Reader overview
Thorium Reader is an easy to use EPUB reading application for Windows 10/10S, MacOS and Linux. After importing e-books from a directory or OPDS feed, you'll be able to read on any screen size, customize layout settings, navigate via the table of contents or page list, set bookmarks ... A great care is taken to ensure the accessibility of the application for visual impaired people using NVDA, JAWS or Narrator.
Free application. No ads. No private data flowing anywhere. Thorium is available in many languages and is accessible for visually impaired and dyslexic people.
This project is in constant evolution, corrections and new features will be added soon and your support is welcome for that. The application is based on the open-source Readium Desktop toolkit.
What’s new in version 3.0.0
- Major user interface refresh / redesign
- Support for dark/light modes (matches operating system, or can be overridden by user preference)
- Reader window supports additional colour themes
- Dockable panels (left/right) in reader window for navigation and display preferences
- Note: some keyboard tab-cycling and focus handling is currently occasionally buggy, will be fixed in v3.1 as we also improve screen reader support
- New feature: annotations (currently locally-stored database, a future revision will support import/export)
- Added a "mark as finished" action
- Support for PROXY servers via environment variables
- Simplified LCP/LSD network requests
- Updated locales / translations
Thorium Reader for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.0.0
What users say about Thorium Reader
Features: 5.0
Fantastic features. This is the only ePub reader which allows configuration on a per document basis. This is very important for reading poetry or certain scientific texts. Line-length, margins, letter spacing – the options are the useful ones and they are well laid-out.
Reliability: 4.0
Thorium is built on Mozilla code so there's very solid underpinnings here. Memory use is excessive like all browser based apps, but significantly better than electron (720 MB on my Mac Studio with 64GB memory now, after several days and with four documents open).
Customer support: 5.0
The project appears to be well-managed with an attractive home page, downloads available free standing and on the app store. I take the free standing download. Github provdes the project underpinnings.
Other user ratings:
Value | 5.0
Ease of use | 4.0
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Jun 29 2024
Version: 3.0.0
First Impressions: The clunk-element is fairly high. Starting with the dev's website: Words are spelled wrong, what should download the Thorium Reader Documentation dumps you to a raw code page, IOW bad HTML. (To save you suffering, the direct download of the v3 Doc is https://rawcdn.githack.com/edrlab/publications/main/thorium3-documentation/sources/en.epub ). That documentation is a work-in-progress, and it shows. Embedded are links the lead to oblivion, rather than what you're searching for. The bookmarking is primitive with no visible indicator, only an available bookmark number listing. Text highlighting is in the wrong color, different from what the Documenation claims. The annotation system requires permanently highlighting text with the annotation buried behind it. TEXT-TO-SPEECH: It works inside the app itself if you dig around and change to a reasonable voice. But you might want to skip it and use Apple's macOS TTS instead via highlighting and hitting your chosen reading key command. You'll have better reading speed control. Where TTS typically falls down is DRM (Digital Right Manglement, IMHO) limitation of what you can TTS within books. You can TTS read only so far then you're locked out. They're paranoid you're going to copy/paste their copyrighted work elsewhere, which is silly seeing as OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is free and easy, resulting in the same thing. I'll still have to play with a DRM limited ePub to see if this dopey game is part of Thorium. OVERALL, Thorium Reader is just as clunky as every other ePub reader. It breaks Apple's GUI rules. It's settings are scattered and obscure. The learning curve is not straight forward, making it NOT easy to use for newbies. If it overcomes the DRM crappage, I'll add another star. But for now, this is just another average clunky ePub reader. At least its free. 😕
