Is there a Quick Look plugin for epub?

Question

Is there a Quick Look plugin to preview .epub (ebook) files?

Answer 1

Yes, there are several:

• ePub-quicklook @ github (free)

• eBookQuickLook (free) (outdated)

• EPUB QuickLook plugin (free)

Answer 2

EPUB-Plugins Quick Look & Spotlight plugins. OT QLMobi.

Answer 3

ePub-quicklook is the only plugin that is being maintained up to 2016, but says it does not work in Mojave or later.

It comes in two parts:

The epub.qlgenerator plugin is designed to extract the cover images from EPUB files to use as the file icon, and present a nice overview of the EPUB in QuickLook.

The epub.mdimporter plugin is designed to extract information from EPUB files (metadata as well as text content) and index it so that Spotlight can search it.

To install, download the either files, or both from github Releases.

Then copy the unzipped epub.qlgenerator file into /Library/QuickLook/ (for all users) or ~/Library/QuickLook/ (for the current user only).

And copy the unzipped epub.mdimporter file into /Library/Spotlight/ (for all cusers) or ~/Library/Spotlight/ (for the current user only).