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I'm trying it now, based on your recommendation (thank you, by the way!). Had to grab a file from some PPA to enable EPUB support, but it worked. Just Mint things, I guess.

The lack of UI is a bit meh, but I'm okay with it: mouse and keyboard controls work really well. Way better than xreader's. And unlike Okular, it isn't ruining the pictures. I'm keeping it, at least until KDE fixes the Okular bug!

That brings me back to the topic. I've been using Linux for, like, 15 years? And in Linux nowadays there are lots of options, but they usually boil down to

1. I don't need an interface.
2. Half-working, half-broken. Our alternative is also like this, but the working halves are different, so use both of us together.
3. I got a kitchen sink~ it plays Merry Christmas, once you send an e-mail through the pipe!

Then I look at my Android phone and it's the same. And based on what people say about Windows and Mac, it's the same too. Perhaps I'm being nostalgic, but shouldn't we (people in general) be rethinking what we want from software?

For example, Calibre. I personally don't want a library manager, but plenty people do so that's fine. Which are the features that they expect, that actually improve their experience when reading books? Do they really benefit from plopping an AI system into that? Isn't this a bit already too outside the scope of what a library manager is supposed to do?