Lucidor

»En Hiort som uti mörka Skogar wistar
Han löper oförhindrat med sin Hind,
Så leeker Fisk i Siön, Fogl upå qwistar;
Men jag kan see ock måste wara blind,
Jag seer, ok kan dock lijkwäl intet niuta,
Jag är lijk som een wäder-drifwen Skuta
Som fasta Landet seer Och måste siunka neer.«

Lars “Lucidor” Johanson,
“Wärldslige Wisor VI” (ca 1670)

Introduction

Lucidor is a computer program for reading and handling e-books. Lucidor supports e-books in the EPUB file format, and catalogs in the OPDS format.

Lucidor runs on the GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms.

Lucidor is developed by Ordbrand.

Features

Lucidor provides functionality to

Read EPUB e-books.
Organize a collection of e-books in a local bookcase.
Search for and download e-books from the Internet, for example by browsing OPDS catalogs.
Convert web feeds into e-books.

License

Lucidor is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Note that the Lucidor distribution archive includes parts which are not released under the GNU General Public License, for example the sample e-books. See the credits.txt file for details.

Installation

Running Lucidor on Mac OS X

To install Lucidor do the following:

Double click on the Lucidor dmg file to open it.
Drag the Lucidor icon to the Applications folder.

Before you can run Lucidor, you must make sure that XULRunner is installed. See “Requirements” below.

When Lucidor has been installed on Mac OS X then it can be started by clicking on Lucidor in the Applications folder.

Note

Note that Lucidor has not been extensively tested on Mac OS X, and there may still be OS specific problems. One reported issue is that the Preferences window can not be closed using the mouse. A workaround for this is to press Command+W to close the window.

Uninstallation

To uninstall Lucidor you just drag the Lucidor icon from the Applications folder to the Trash icon.

Requirements

On Mac OS X Lucidor requires that XULRunner (versions 18 or above) is installed before the program can be run.

Instructions for installing XULRunner are available here.

Contact information

The creator of Lucidor can be contacted via a form at lucidor.org.