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Re: KOReader

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Post by overflowy »

carlosjobim wrote: post #7

My wish is to see ebooks become first class citizens on all digital devices. Apple has a native ebook reader built in to their devices. It's cumbersome and bloated, but it's there. No web browser except Yandex has built in ebook support, even though it would be the easiest thing in the world. Android, Linux and Windows have no built-in ebook reader, as far as I know. Murasaki [1] is the most performant and sleek eboo…

I really appreciate you mentioning Murasaki - thank you. I've been looking for something like this for a long time, because every single EPUB "reader" out there does so much more than just read EPUBs. This one does just that, I love it.

Re: KOReader

#32

Post by nonninz »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #15
lolgab wrote: post #10

I installed it on my Amazon Kindle and I couldn't be happier. It shows once again that free software is superior to proprietary software. Free software grows slowly to make users happier and not to attract them with useless features to extract more value from them. Congratulations for this great piece of software.

What extra features has over regular kindle software? I find kindle features enough but I want to know if I’m missing something

As someone who thought the same (stock was enough for me) until I had some free time and switched, here are some things I'm really enjoying, in no particular order:

- Format support: EPUB, CBR/CBZ (comics, graphic novels), PDF

- Dark mode

- Fully programmable gestures and shortcuts

- Automatically syncs with my readeck instance (think readitlater/instapaper) to dowload the articles I save for example here on HN

- Calibre integration over wifi

- RSS/Atom

- Custom dictionaries

If you are into manga, there is an extension for directly downloading them on the device

I'm really happy I made the switch.

Re: KOReader

#33

Post by radel »

It took me some time to know my way around it, but wow. I have it configured with some plugins, like zen ui and bookshelf. I Also use BookOrbit to sync reading progress and annotations between devices. Loving it.

Re: KOReader

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Post by thewhitetulip »

lolgab wrote: post #10

I installed it on my Amazon Kindle and I couldn't be happier. It shows once again that free software is superior to proprietary software. Free software grows slowly to make users happier and not to attract them with useless features to extract more value from them. Congratulations for this great piece of software.

It shows reading stats that I absolutely love!!

Re: KOReader

#36

Post by nonninz »

Cider9986 wrote: post #2

You can use the regular Kindle viewer once you jailbroke your kindle, but KOReader has native epub and pdf support so you don't have to use a converter when uploading your books. I did find it hard to get the bezels to be even and it still doesn't always format well depending on the book. I still kind of prefer the default viewer. I use this plugin in KOReader which lets you download books from Z-Library within KORea…

> Unfortunately on MacOS it seems you have to use Amazon's app to access the filesystem.

Hmmm not really my experience, unless it's a new thing. I am still able to access it via finder. Although I need to exit KoReader first and go back to the stock UI.

Re: KOReader

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Post by khalic »

I tried but the whole process is a miserable experience between the stale blog posts and the dead links…

And then the UX… great project but could use a systems guy used to jailbreaking installations and a UX designer

Edit: for kobo at least

Re: KOReader

#38

Post by pesarkhobeee »

I am using koreader on my ereader and KOreader has a native support for https://wallabag.org/. They are both fantastic opensource projects, whenever I like to read a blog post I am sending them to my wallabag and therefore I can easily have them on my ereader too.

Also the fact that you can install different plugin on KOreader and customize it in a way you like is fantastic. for example just check:

- https://github.com/doctorhetfield-cmd/simpleui.koplugin - https://github.com/AndyHazz/bookshelf.koplugin

Or with Lua you can develop your own plugin for that. to people who wanted to jailbreak their Kindle I can recommend these two links:

- https://kindlemodding.org/ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtk7ERwlIAk

All in all I am supper happy with KOreader and can't imagine to use anything else

Re: KOReader

#39

Post by lordleft »

lolgab wrote: post #10

I installed it on my Amazon Kindle and I couldn't be happier. It shows once again that free software is superior to proprietary software. Free software grows slowly to make users happier and not to attract them with useless features to extract more value from them. Congratulations for this great piece of software.

I’m a heavy KOReader user and absolutely adore it, but I think it definitely trades user-friendliness for power and flexibility. The Kindle proprietary store has a far more user friendly UI imo, though it’s getting progressively worse (and the fact that kindles now default to showing you the store pisses me off to no end). KOReader plugins really close the gap though.

Re: KOReader

#40

Post by sieve »

I installed this the moment I got my Kobo Libra H2O. Mostly read fiction from the 1800s and early 1900s and I did not want to fight whatever proprietary software the reader came with (Kobo is probably better than the Kindle for this, but I never tried it!)

I have a problem with epubs though. This need to support every single thing under the sun makes the pipeline exceedingly complex. All you need for a vast majority of fiction is:

- headings

- paras

- emphasis (bold/italic)

- block quotes

Add simple "image" syntax to it to display maps etc from detective stories

Basically a ruthlessly cut down version of markdown.

The mini-readers from Xteink came in at the right time for such experimentation.

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