Foliate focuses on reading and supports book management with a dedicated library view. It supports typical e-book formats with
reflowable text:
EPUB (primary focus),
Mobipocket,
AZW(3), and no formats with fixed layout, although
PDF support is also available. Its customizable and
theme-based
user interface is inspired by those of portable
e-reader hardware devices. It follows the
GNOME standards and automatically adapts to different screen formats. A full-text search is available (also for annotations), as well as word lookup (in
Wikipedia and
Wiktionary or offline dictionaries via a interface) and integration of
Google Translate. The application stores reading progress, bookmarks and annotations in a central directory using one
JSON file per book. These can be synchronized with other devices, although it uses a format that does not work immediately with other reading software. It can also check for spelling errors in annotations and export them as
Markdown. It is not able to synchronize e-books with a hardware reader device. ==Technology==