What could I use to read epub books on OS X?

I would prefer a good and free solution for reading epub books on OS X.

It looks that by default OS X is not able to open epub books.

Solution 1:

Calibre

ePubRead Firefox Addon

Crossplatform Sony book reader

Mac OS X Port of FBReader

Adobe Digital Editions

Solution 2:

Stanza is a very good epub reader for OSX that is free.

Solution 3:

Scarlett in the Mac App Store.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scarlett/id457009670?mt=12

Solution 4:

I use Calibre on my desktop machines; it's very feature rich and can convert to and from .epub so you can use it with most of the "specialty" readers. You can even "tweak" your books to fix minor typos and oddities from conversions. I don't think that is up to the normal Mac usability, but it does work.

I've also used the Kobo reader to read various epubs; it has some nicer page layout than Calibre and allows comments and highlighting that is pretty unique to Kobo. I'll admit I haven't used it on Mac, but I think it's great on Windows and Android. I'm pretty sure it's Stanza on my iPad, though.

Ted