What software can I use to view epub documents?

You can use calibre software for viewing .epub documents.

To install calibre from terminal:

sudo apt-get install calibre

Or click the icon below.

calibre

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If you don't want to launch the full calibre client just to view your ebook files you can add a .desktop launcher to calibre's inbuilt ebook viewer:

1. Create a new .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications:

   gedit ~/.local/share/applications/calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop
   

2. Copy and paste the following passage into the file:

   #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
   
   [Desktop Entry]
   Version=1.0
   Type=Application
   Terminal=false
   Icon=calibre
   Exec=ebook-viewer
   Name=Calibre Ebook Viewer
   Comment=Display .epub files and other ebook formats
   MimeType=application/x-mobipocket-ebook;application/epub+zip;
   StartupWMClass=calibre-ebook-viewer
   

3. Save the file. You should now be able to launch Calibre's inbuilt ebook viewer both from the dash and through the right click "Open with" menu.

I recommend fbreader. Small, fast, single key page turning. Quite pleasant.

Use the command line to install FBreader:-

sudo apt-get install fbreader

I prefer Okular, a document viewer made for KDE. It has features including bookmarks and highlighting.

It's available in the main ubuntu repository and can be installed on a plain vanilla Ubuntu installation; kubuntu is not required.

To be able open epubs with okular, you must also install the okular-extra-backends package.

    sudo apt-get install okular okular-extra-backends