Librum is an application designed to make reading enjoyable and straightforward for everyone.
It's not just an e-book reader. With Librum, you can manage your own online library and access it from any device anytime, anywhere. It has features like note-taking, AI tooling, and highlighting, while offering customization to make it as personal as you want!
Librum also provides free access to over 70,000 books and personal reading statistics while being free and completely open source.
Download Librum from our website!
Setup and manage your own online library
A simple and modern interface
Add your books to collections, tag them, and sort them in any way you want
Customize Librum to make it personal to you
If you'd to support Librum's development, check out: https://librumreader.com/contribute All of the current feature requests, bugs and tasks are listed in the issues. Easy tasks are labeled "good first issue", so that is a good starting point. PS: Feel free to tag me (@DavidLazarescu) in the comments of any issue if you have questions.
For questions, you can reach us under: [email protected] For business related contact, reach out to us here: [email protected]
Donations make it possible for us to cover our server costs and allow us to make investments into new areas of development. If you would like to support us, check out: https://librumreader.com/contribute/donate or become a Github sponsor! As a team of opensource developers we rely on donations to continue working on projects like Librum. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Librum is currently available in the languages listed here
If you want to translate Librum to another language, follow the steps below:
Once you are done, create a pull request or open up an issue with your new translation file! If you run into any problems, need guidance or have questions, feel free to reach out to us at: [email protected]
Notes:
For documentation go to Librum's GitHub-wiki
To self-host Librum you need to run Librum-Server locally (instructions can be found here) and tell the client to use your self-hosted server by:
selfHosted=true
and serverHost
to your server's url (e.g. serverHost=https://127.0.0.1:5001
)Win + R
and search for regedit
), navigating to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Librum-Reader\Librum
and setting selfHosted=true
and serverHost
to your server's urlMake sure to run the application before following the steps above, to generate the required files.
Part of Librum's aim is to work on any platform. No matter where you are or which device you use, you can always continue your book with Librum, as it is cross platform. We support:
Librum is the best choice for all kinds of books, since Librum supports all major book formats including:
And many more!
Librum's objective is to make your reading more productive; to that end, we provide you with a variety of features that you can access via a simple and straightforward interface. These features include:
Want a new feature? Feel free to leave a feature request ticket!
Follow this guide to build Librum from source.
sudo apt install python3-venv
)The installation is straight forward, just follow the steps below:
git clone https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum.git --recursive
cd Librum
mkdir build-Release
cd build-Release
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=Off -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<path/to/Qt> ..
Set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
to your Qt installation path. Installing Qt via the online installer usually installs it to /home/<name>/Qt/<version>/gcc_64
cmake --build . -j $(nproc)
cmake --install .
Here are solutions to some common errors. If your error is not listed here, please open an issue.
Error: Failed to find required Qt component "Quick".
Solution: Install the libGL mesa dev package, on ubuntu its sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dev
and on fedora its sudo dnf install mesa-libGL-devel
.
Error: Could not load the qt platform plugin "xcb" even though it was found
Solution: Install the libxcb-cursor-dev, on ubuntu its sudo apt install libxcb-cursor-dev
To build Librum on windows, run the following commands in the Powershell:
git clone https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum.git --recursive
cd Librum
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=Off -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<path/to/qt> ..
Set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
to your Qt installation path. Installing Qt via the online installer usually installs it to <Drive>\\Qt\\<version>\\msvc2019_64
cmake --build . --config Release
./librum
Here are some things to keep in mind during the build process.
PATH
environment variableThe installation is straight forward, just follow the steps below:
git clone https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum.git --recursive
cd Librum
mkdir build-Release
cd build-Release
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=Off -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<path/to/Qt> ..
Set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
to your Qt installation path. Installing Qt via the online installer usually installs it to /Users/<name>/Qt/<version>/macos
cmake --build . -j $(nproc)
cmake --install
Note: Make sure to add /usr/local/lib
to your DYLIB path, for MacOS to find the installed libraries by exporting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
.