I'm really not confortable with projects that treat the Git history as junk, to the point I'd rather avoid that software. I daily use the e-reader Koreader, and sometimes Plato, and their source code and Git history are clear and documented (though I think Koreader's choice of Lua is poorly suited to the task). I could patch Koreader to my taste and send pull requests.
It might be the most awesome software in the world, but if I can't read the majority of bug reports, it's not something I can feel comfortable using.
(This is not a flaw in the software, this is a flaw in me: I don't know how to read -- I'm assuming it's Mandarin Chinese, but I can't even reliably tell that.)
Not to be rude, but if that's the case, and you're unwilling to use "random" translation tools like Google Translate, what is the point of this comment? Not everyone in the world speaks English. Do you want them to learn English and post bug reports in English for you?
Koodo is the way to go
However, more recently I have been using "Koodo" reader and library for both epub and pdf
It has a great visual library too. I only use Koodo now.
https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/koodo-reader-bin