Top 10 eBook Readers for Linux

Free e-book reader that supports multiple file formats, including ePub, fb2, mobi, HTML, RTF, HTML, plain text, doc, and more. FBReader uses its own page parsing and rendering engine - very lightweight, fast and customizable. It supports embedded images, footnotes, hyperlinks, text search, full-screen reading. It also automatically creates bookmarks so you don't lose track of where you left off after closing a book. It works on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Chrome OS. Books can be synced across devices or stored in Google Drive. For Android and iOS there are both free and paid versions. Free versions have some limitations.

KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. Supported file formats include EPUB, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, DOC, MOBI and ZIP files. It’s available for Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Android and desktop Linux.

Lucidor is a simple tool for reading, managing and organizing your eBooks within your own personal bookcase. It supports ePub and OPDS catalog files. You can search for eBooks online and download them right into the application. A unique feature Lucidor has is the ability to have multiple eBooks open at one time. It does this via it’s tabbed interface, which is much like a Web browser. Lucidor even supports themes. There is also a search bar for finding specific keywords or phrases within your content.

Adobe Reader software is the free trusted standard for reliably viewing, printing, and annotating PDF documents. It’s the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia.

A simple, focused eBook reader for Linux. Read the books you love without having to worry about different format complexities like epub, pdf, mobi, cbr, etc.

A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops. Beautiful Pages. Supports EPUB, Mobipocket, Kindle, FictionBook, and comic book archive formats. Single-column, two-column, or continuous scrolling layouts

DjView4 is a new portable DjVu viewer and browser plugin. Entirely based on the public djvulibre api. Entirely written in portable Qt4. Works with Qt/X11, Qt/Mac, and Qt/Windows. Continuous scrolling of pages. Side-by-side display of pages. Ability to specify a url to the djview command. All plugin and cgi options available from the command line.

Xodo is a set of online tools that allow to securely view, read, annotate, convert and work with your PDF books. Conversion directions are Word, HTML, TXT, PowerPoint and others. Xodo also provides free PDF reader for Windows, Mac and Linux that allows to open, read, print PDFs offline on your desktop, while Xodo Mobile all-in-one app - enable to do all this on iOS and Android.

MagicScroll Web Reader is a Chrome plug-in that turns every page on the web into a MagicScroll book. Its unique scrolling system lets you scroll web pages without moving them, making it easier to read long articles without being distracted. It's simple and easy and free to use. After install you'll see a small book icon in the chrome toolbar. Visit a page you want to read and click the icon to transform it into a MagicScroll book.

EPUBReader is a browser addon which lets you read ePub-files without DRM just in the browser. You don't need to install additional software. If you click on a link to an ePub-file, you are normally prompted by the Firefox or Chrome "save as" dialog. With EPUBReader installed, the ePub-file is downloaded, processed and directly displayed ready to read. It runs on every operating system (Windows, MacOS X, Linux)

DjVuLibre is an open source (GPL'ed) implementation of DjVu, including viewers, browser plugins, decoders, simple encoders, and utilities. DjVuLibre includes a standalone viewer, a browser plug-in (for Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror, Netscape, Galeon, and Opera), and command line tools (decoders, encoders, utilities). DjVuLibre works under Unix with X11.

FB2Reader for Google Chrome allows you to read FB2 books right in the browser. The books that you add to the reader are stored in the internal browser repository, so the reader doesn't require internet.