Reader for epub files?

Now that google has opened up it's bookshelf, making tones of books downloadable in epub/pdf formats, I'm looking for a decent (and lightweight) epub reader.
I think it's not hard to write a application to handle this.Epub files can be extracted as zip archives, here is what it looks like:
Emma
|-- META-INF
| `-- container.xml
|-- OEBPS
| |-- Content-000.xml
| |-- Content-001.xml
| |-- Content-002.xml
| |-- Content-045.xml
| |-- Content-046.xml
| |-- images
| | |-- Image-000-0000.jpg
| | |-- Image-002-0001.jpg
| | |-- Image-002-0002.jpg
| | |-- Image-003-0003.jpg
| | `-- Image-046-0099.jpg
| |-- toc.ncx
| `-- volume.opf
`-- mimetype
(Well I said that is easy but I didn't mean easy for me... lol, currently I just open those xml files with firefox.)
I've read about fbreader and calibre, but both requires qt stuff which I tend to avoid...
EDIT::
fbreader does not require qt! It defaults to gtk+ but that package in AUR uses qt4. The gtk+ version is already in [community]... silly me..
Any other solutions are all welcome!
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