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Use Calibre E-book manager (free) to read your EPUB files
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!)
jrc14 That's a very good point, I didn't consider that :-(.
Having to maintain the app is probably the reason they'd not do it. I think it may be possible to bundle a standalone package with all component libraries they need, but maintaining it over countless Windows updates (which is bound to break something at some point) becomes a commitment which they are likely unwilling to undertake.
Such a pity really. I still have a small tablet I permanently took offline with the most recent Edge build supporting Epubs. I will use that for as long as possible - using USB to transfer Epubs etc. Will never connect it to the internet! 🙂
- There is always the feedback button on Edge, that's for feedbacks and requests.
Epub readers everywhere have their own tools.
there are more important file formats than epub that needs to be implemented, namely MKV.
