Dogear is the reader for studying, made for Omarchy. Version 0.1.3 opens EPUB books, so it now reads, highlights and remembers your PDFs and EPUBs.

EPUB books

Open an .epub the same way as a PDF: from the Open dialog, the command line, by dropping it on the window, or from the library. The first time, Dogear sets the book in pages (6 × 9 in, chapters starting on a new page), which takes a second or two for a long book, and keeps those pages. After that everything works as it does for a PDF: highlights in five colors, notes, bookmarks, answer lines, search, the library and the Markdown export. The Contents panel shows the book’s own table of contents.

Your marks belong to the book

The library lists the EPUB, and the EPUB is what Dogear copies into Library/. The laid-out pages live in your library folder, so they sync with your marks and another computer shows the same pages. They’re never laid out again, so your marks stay on the words you marked. Another copy of the same book (same identifier, such as its ISBN) is offered your marks, just as with PDFs.

Good to know

  • Books get one plain, readable style. Bold, italics, headings, lists, tables and images are kept; the publisher’s styling, links inside the book and most SVG drawings aren’t.
  • DRM-protected EPUBs can’t be opened.
  • There’s no choice of page size or font yet.
  • Fix: the Arch package now depends on qt6-svg. Without it, Dogear’s icon (and SVG images in books) couldn’t be shown. Most desktops already have it, so few noticed.

Get it 

autonomix-cli add https://github.com/ninepointlabs/dogear autonomix-cli install dogear # or, if you already track it: autonomix-cli update

On Arch or Omarchy you can also grab dogear-0.1.3-1-any.pkg.tar.zst and run sudo pacman -U on it; on any other Linux, the AppImage runs as is. Both are on the v0.1.3 release, and the source is on GitHub. Questions go to help@ninepointlabs.com.

Originally posted on blog.ninepointlabs.com.