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Either somebody has to help me find an EPUB3 reader, or tell me the points value of a Khorne Blood Slaughterer, because as far as I can tell, there is no reliable sources to get a reader on desktop. That's quite frustating, seeing as I only need ONE unit's stats anyways, and I can find the Datasheet for the Slaughterer online. Just not its points.

 vaklor4 wrote:
Either somebody has to help me find an EPUB3 reader, or tell me the points value of a Khorne Blood Slaughterer, because as far as I can tell, there is no reliable sources to get a reader on desktop. That's quite frustating, seeing as I only need ONE unit's stats anyways, and I can find the Datasheet for the Slaughterer online. Just not its points.

get chrome and use the readium extension.

the GW epubs will have some issues with title text overlapping because readium's format implementation isn't perfect, but it's still good enough.

The Epubs are all literally unreadable on windows.

Your best bet is to learn how to convert them to PDFs, but that requires you to buy a bunch of expensive fonts.

Calibre ought to do the do the job; I certainly have no difficulties using it as a reader in Linux.

 Lord Fishface wrote:
Calibre ought to do the do the job; I certainly have no difficulties using it as a reader in Linux.

Calibre doesn't let you zoom in, and as usual when I reported it, the open source gatekeepers told me to feth myself and marked it as won't fix.

Readium for Chrome is the best of a bad bunch, at least it's somewhat readable even if the fonts are broken half the time due to incorrect subsetting/encryption.

Most epub readers on desktop are crap for one reason or another; Calibre requires the Windows zoom tool if you want to read anything on normal screen resolutions.

The best I've found so far is Adobe Digital Editions, and that insists on demanding you add things to your Adobe library, crashes if you scroll too quickly, and occasionally does the Skype thing where it won't actually close via the normal ways to close applications and you need to go into Task Manager and end the process.

I don't think I'm allowed to just tell you the points value of the Blood Slaughterer, but you may be able to find the answer yourself with Google image search.

azardi does a good job on windows. No real issues I've seen.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/p/epub3-reader/9wzdncrfjcq1 ?

I’ve not used it, but seems like it would to the trick if you’re on a windows box?


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The Kindle desktop app might do the trick, too?

Chrysis wrote:
azardi does a good job on windows. No real issues I've seen.

I'm using azardi as well. Works fine with the FW index adaptus astartes.

Thanks for suggestions, guys, I had same issue. Really, it's insane how most mainstream option is ignored these days because you can't monetize everything on it so easily these days

WindstormSCR wrote:

get chrome and use the readium extension.

I'd never do that even if it was the only EPUB3 reader available, seeing chrome is glorified spyware pretending to be a browser. Unless someone is fine with random overseas company with literally zero law oversight (less than zero if you're not US citizen, even, as then Google can ignore any and all laws they want thanks to Safe Harbor provisions) gathering more info on his private life than even KGB ever did, then selling resulting 'product' to everyone willing to pay a few pennies, doing so is utterly insane.

 Irbis wrote:
I'd never do that even if it was the only EPUB3 reader available, seeing chrome is glorified spyware pretending to be a browser. Unless someone is fine with random overseas company with literally zero law oversight (less than zero if you're not US citizen, even, as then Google can ignore any and all laws they want thanks to Safe Harbor provisions) gathering more info on his private life than even KGB ever did, then selling resulting 'product' to everyone willing to pay a few pennies, doing so is utterly insane.

You know you don't actually have to use chrome as your browser to use the epub plugin, right? I sure don't. The only thing anyone is getting out of that browser is a list of all the digital 40k books I've opened.

Also, anonymous marketing data isn't really all that scary. Unlike the KGB nobody is taking a personal interest in you, it's just machines exchanging data with other machines and then displaying different ads for you to ignore. It's not like google is telling your best friend about that time you slept with their mom.

I've struggled to get a good one as well on my Fire tablet. I would try out Kobo if you can get it.I've found it to be the best so far and it allows me to zoom in and our just fine. I had tried a, few including Calibre, but none were quite as good.

I use Adobe Digital Editions on my PC.
It doesn't have many features other apps might, but it works well enough for me.

Kobo (as listed on the WH Digital help pages) for Android.

EPUB 3 can be unzipped in WinRAR.
Then you get a bunch of separate webpage xhtml files, one for every page of the document. They can be opened in a browser.

At least this was readable, unlike what I got using actual ebook readers.
Besides, a 'slaughterer is 180 points with either wargear loadout.

 Irbis wrote:
Thanks for suggestions, guys, I had same issue. Really, it's insane how most mainstream option is ignored these days because you can't monetize everything on it so easily these days

WindstormSCR wrote:

get chrome and use the readium extension.

I'd never do that even if it was the only EPUB3 reader available, seeing chrome is glorified spyware pretending to be a browser. Unless someone is fine with random overseas company with literally zero law oversight (less than zero if you're not US citizen, even, as then Google can ignore any and all laws they want thanks to Safe Harbor provisions) gathering more info on his private life than even KGB ever did, then selling resulting 'product' to everyone willing to pay a few pennies, doing so is utterly insane.

So install Chromium (the open source project) instead?

If you have a Gmail account you can always upload the epub to your books and read it in browser through that interface.

Adobe Digital Editions 4.5 on my pc

 Irbis wrote:
Thanks for suggestions, guys, I had same issue. Really, it's insane how most mainstream option is ignored these days because you can't monetize everything on it so easily these days

WindstormSCR wrote:

get chrome and use the readium extension.

I'd never do that even if it was the only EPUB3 reader available, seeing chrome is glorified spyware pretending to be a browser. Unless someone is fine with random overseas company with literally zero law oversight (less than zero if you're not US citizen, even, as then Google can ignore any and all laws they want thanks to Safe Harbor provisions) gathering more info on his private life than even KGB ever did, then selling resulting 'product' to everyone willing to pay a few pennies, doing so is utterly insane.

I've looked high and low for the same thing and am dumbfounded that none exist, it's just ios that can. Redium jumbles it. Kobo used to work, but as of the past few updates seems to choke.

Unrelated, but honestly if you're using the internet at all you're data is everywhere always, no more with google than anyone else. Hell chrome at least is nice enough to not lock up constantly and be slow like every other browser that's data mining you. It's like a reacharound. So I wouldn't stress it, it's literally unavoidable short of living in a cabin and eating rats you catch. Plus if google knows your favorite type of cookie and spank material good they can help you find it faster.

Kindle for PC will let you read e-books on your pc, I've used it a few times.

Why is GW so adverse to PDF? I can't stand epub3 or mobi formats. I want it to look the same as if I had the book in my hands.

PDFs can be torn apart by anyone with Acrobat, can't they?
AFAIK, the EPub and Mobi formats have the account info of the purchase implanted in the downloaded file.