21 January 2015

Q&A: What is the best HTML5 eReader around?

Reinhart Previano Koentjoro (@reinhart)

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Firefox's PDF.JS on http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ is a good HTML5 eReader. It supports .pdf reading and can be installed without git. If you know how to edit the CSS codes there you can style your viewer. The disadvantage here is that there's a problem when copying text from documents and not all older and mobile browsers are supported. Edit March 22, 2017: The select and copy problem mentioned earlier has being improved recently. Google Chrome's pdfium on https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/ is a HTML5 eReader that has simple user interface and can read and copy .pdf document. The disadvantage here is that to install you need to use git to install.

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