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Show HN: Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages

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Re: Show HN: Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages

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This went from a cloud / local app to 100% cloud only storage. If you have a library of content locally that you have NOT submitted to the cloud storage, then it won't show up on the update. I went and used time machine to get an old version of the app and removed the upgrade.yml from the contents of the app package as well, so it won't auto upgrade. This was a really bad handling of the upgrade. It is unrealistic to…

We got your back. We actually release a 1.x version that won't upgrade you if you want to stay local: https://www.reddit.com/r/PolarBookshelf/comments/j9yfbx/pola... The 2.0 upgrade won't and can't auto-upgrade because 2.0 is far far far more secure and we wanted to keep it that way. 2.0 is very locked up in a sandbox so it can't actually access your disk. 1.x should be secure but 2.0 radically reduces the chance of…

I am very unhappy with this change.

I always liked that I could keep my ebooks/Polar Libary in my Nextcloud, but now it sounds like that isn't possible anymore :-/

I tried the cloud version in the past, but it had only disadvantages for me.

Re: Show HN: Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages

#42

This went from a cloud / local app to 100% cloud only storage. If you have a library of content locally that you have NOT submitted to the cloud storage, then it won't show up on the update. I went and used time machine to get an old version of the app and removed the upgrade.yml from the contents of the app package as well, so it won't auto upgrade. This was a really bad handling of the upgrade. It is unrealistic to…

Exactly. But I am glad that forced me to look at other options and found Emacs pdf-tools mode which is amazing
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