EBook Offline Reader

Read epub ebooks for your Chromebook and ChromeOS, works offline

What is EBook Offline Reader?

EBook Offline Reader is a versatile Chrome extension developed for offline reading of epub ebooks. Designed to work efficiently on Chromebooks and ChromeOS platform, this extension opens and manages the epub files seamlessly. The extension recently added features of opening epub files within the app, migrating to new chrome.sockets API, and using the new epub.js library. Notably, it is open-sourced, further enhancing its adaptability and functionality to suit users' needs.

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Users: 60,000+

Rating: 2.95 (448)

Version: 0.0.3 (Last updated: 2014-10-21)

Creation date: 2014-10-20

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

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Size: 338.94K

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URLs: Website

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# 3136 ▼ 4

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Extension summary

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EBook Offline Reader for Chrome is an offline enabled app that lets you open and read epub ebook files. This app runs anywhere you have chrome installed. It's especially handy on a chromebook, because it lets you read your ebooks even when you're offline.

Update: Oct 10, 2014

Allow opening epub file from within the app
Migrate to new chrome.sockets API
Use new epub.js library

This app lets you open "epub" ebook files with ChromeOS file browser by just double clicking on the file. It registers the filetype "epub" Perhaps in the future it will handle other ebook types.

Open source: https://github.com/kzahel/ebook-offline-chrome

Based on epub.js

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works well for reading ePub book format.
Easy to use and simple layout.
Allows offline reading.
Serves its purpose and works fine most of the time.

Cons

Takes a long time to load books.
No bookmark feature or ability to jump to a specific page.
Hyperlinks do not work.
Resets to the beginning of the book when reopened.

Most mentioned

Needs a bookmark feature.
Loading time is slow.
Inefficient navigation through pages.

Recent reviews

Works fine most of the time and fonts are good. Sometimes takes too long to load the book. Needs to be more efficient

Shuva bose, 2024-01-19

Takes a long time to load my travel guide and the hyperlinks don't work. The quality of the pages and the photos are good, but both my library app and kindle work much better than this.

Sharron Murray, 2023-05-06

this app works great when i download ePub book format. I am using a chromebook and it's the first time I downloaded. easy and recommend the app for others. it's so easy to use.