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Anyways I just wanted to read using the least possible resources so I'm just using a simple file manager and mupdf (in which KOreader is based). mupdf may be simple, but it's amazing.
Lots of nice features but the UX and UI are so painful that it's not worth jumping from the stock kobo reader for me. It's nice to have another option though and if the UX improves one day maybe I'll use it as my main reader.
Interesting. I generally hate proprietary software, but I've actually been really satisfied with the kindle UI. I don't use the store at all, simply email epubs to it directly. (I usually only move 1-5 books max at a given time, so this process feels really simple to me). The only adjustments I need are the text size and front light, battery life is amazing. I'm guessing this would be really useful if I had advanced…
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> I think it definitely trades user-friendliness for power and flexibility A tale as old as time with OSS software from what I've seen. So far the only exception that I've seen of a FOSS piece of software with great UX is Blender[1]. With UX not being a first-class citizen on Linux, exposure to a solid universal tooling to create great UX also exacerbates things. I think the issue of bad UX and OSS are comorbid becau…
> So far the only exception that I've seen of a FOSS piece of software with great UX is Blender. Most OSS software favors power users instead of total beginners. And even Blender is not a great exercise in discoverability. You need training to use it. The stock software in Kobo and kindle can be used within minutes because they don't have a lot of features/options. And it's totally fine if that's what you need. Just…
This requires however to remember the name of the command (or parts of it). I often remember that but not where to find it or the shortcut.
It also requires that you chose the spacebar search option, which is the only correct option if you ask me. (Not a pro. Just messing around with blender sometimes.)
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…
Fiction from the 1800s? Now that sounds interesting. Can you name three titles that you would recommend? And: how did you get into this? Doesn’t sound like a TikTok trend, haha.
I can recommend some authors from the period: W Somerset Maugham, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, H Rider Haggard, Wilkie Collins, Saki, Maupassant, O Henry.
Dickens, Hugo, Austen, Eliot, Bronte, Wilde, Doyle, Poe, Melville, Verne, Stevenson, Wells, Christie, Chesterton, Burroughs, Lovecraft, Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy etc are probably well-known.
The list could go on forever, almost. Some books might feel dated (or too long). But that is fine.
> how did you get into this?
I started reading when I was 3-4 and never stopped. We moved to the suburbs when I was 7-8 (late 80s) and there wasn't much else to do outside of school except read. Built a physical library of close to 4,000 books along the way, but I mostly read at the computer or on e-devices
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Fiction from the 1800s? Now that sounds interesting. Can you name three titles that you would recommend? And: how did you get into this? Doesn’t sound like a TikTok trend, haha.
Not them, but I read Moby Dick last year. Man, I felt like I'd been lied to. It's kind of a laughing stock reference to giant old-timey books that were famous for being famous and such. So wrong! It was hilarious in parts. The narrator is a complete smartass with a strong bend to irony. I loved every bit of it, even the (in)famous chapters about whaling and knot tying and all that, which were vivid peeks into worlds…
Does it have Kindle X-Ray like features, like integration with Wikipedia or possibly integration with AI for contextual information?