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**Read e-books in style.** Open EPUB, Mobipocket, Kindle, FB2, CBZ, and PDF files. Read in paginated or scrolled mode. Adjust the font, spacing, margins, and color scheme. Window controls hide automatically to minimize distraction.

**Navigate with ease.** Turn the page with 1:1 touchpad and touchscreen gestures. View the table of contents, or use the _find in book_ feature in the sidebar. Find your way through the book with the reading progress slider and navigation history.

![Screenshot](https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/screenshot.webp)

Screenshot of Foliate's main interface, showing the book [Moby Dick](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/herman-melville/moby-dick) from [Standard Ebooks](https://standardebooks.org/).

![Cropped screenshot showing Foliate's annotation feature](https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/annotation.webp)

**Add bookmarks and annotations.** Reading progress, bookmarks, and annotations are stored in plain JSON files, so you can export or sync them easily with any tool or storage service. [Learn More →](https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate/blob/gtk4/docs/faq.md#how-are-notes-and-bookmarks-stored)

**Nifty tools.** Look up words in Wiktionary and Wikipedia. Translate passages with Google Translate. Read text aloud with with Speech Dispatcher.

![Cropped screenshot of vertical Japanese text rendered in Foliate](https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/vertical.webp)

**Advanced rendering.** Foliate supports right-to-left text, vertical writing, and fixed layout books. Enjoy features such as auto-hyphenation, popup footnotes, and media overlays.

**Open source.** Foliate is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the [GNU General Public License](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).