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Use Calibre E-book manager (free) to read your EPUB files
They already said no native epub is coming to Edge. it's a browser, not book reader. plus, PDF is a better and more universal format that's being supported in Edge.
there also addons to have epub reader in Edge:
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/epubreader/gbfdomjljjkagpgdlidoicebkgpienmf
Yes, no support for EPUB is current plan for Microsoft Edge , however in case people would really love this feature , especially those who migrate from Microsoft Edge Legacy might request it and in case many people ask for this , then Microsoft Edge team will reconsider.
Agreed PDF is recommended format and personally, I am not using EPUB and there was few cases where I did and I used Adobe one which I mentioned.
- Yes and I mentioned other programs on my post above.
there is no reason to bloat the browser with unnecessary stuff. epub is unnecessary while there are many alternative software built primarily for that.HotCakeX Is there any means to convince the legacy Edge development team to publish the Epub and PDF readers previously bundled into legacy Edge as a separate simple standalone UWP application published in the store?
This would be a great service to Epub readers everywhere! I still say nothing out there as of today compares to the built in Epub reader of Legacy Edge.
Ibukun Momson I already mentioned, earlier in the thread, why it probably isn't a 'simple' thing for the Edge team to publish their legacy EPUB-reading system as a standalone UWP app. Namely: they'd have to include a lot of the legacy Edge core within that app, and it would therefore be a serious maintenance problem, to keep it all working, as the OS got upgraded in ways that would break the legacy Edge core. I think we can be sure that, if it was easy, they would be doing it. Therefore, because they aren't doing it, it probably isn't easy. (How's that for circular reasoning!)
