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Re: KOReader

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Post by soco »

gruturo wrote: post #151

I'm immensely thankful for koreader - it improves the reading experience so fundamentally that it literally drives my purchasing decisions. I got a remarkable 2 precisely because it was known to run it well. When I got a new kindle, I went for a refurbished one hoping it'd be one FW version behind (it was! lucky me) so I could jailbreak it immediately, and run koreader. Which reminds me: - I'm still a primitive user.…

> practical way to mark a book as read

I open the book and go to the last page :)

Re: KOReader

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Post by 1317 »

TBH I've never had any problems with the interface. I put books on via usb, pick the one I want to read from the nice list, then I can just read the book

The reading experience itself is the same as anything else, it draws the text on the screen

Re: KOReader

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Post by Bad_CRC »

CWuestefeld wrote: post #119
dml2135 wrote: post #92

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What's the point of Dark mode on an eink screen?

Because most of the page is dark, with light only coming from the text, the total light emitted is much less. That makes it less annoying to my wife, when I'm reading before going to sleep.

I use dark mode for this too!

Re: KOReader

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Post by carlosjobim »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #111
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…

To be fair, desktop linux doesn't really have built-in anything (except what's appropriate for a kernel, like filesystems and a TCP stack...). Many linux distributions package epub readers (calibre, okular, fbreader, bookworm), and they tend to be really easy to install.

If it has built in a text editor, image viewer, web browser, then ebook reader should be next in the list. I assume even non-graphic Linux distros have the aforementioned built in.

Linux with only kernel, filesystem and TCP stack isn't really what I would call "desktop Linux". I don't know what I'd call it.

Also, Bookworm looks like a lovely ebook reader!

Re: KOReader

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Post by majora2007 »

allenc wrote: post #156
gruturo wrote: post #151

I'm immensely thankful for koreader - it improves the reading experience so fundamentally that it literally drives my purchasing decisions. I got a remarkable 2 precisely because it was known to run it well. When I got a new kindle, I went for a refurbished one hoping it'd be one FW version behind (it was! lucky me) so I could jailbreak it immediately, and run koreader. Which reminds me: - I'm still a primitive user.…

I've been messing around with this as well, and there are a few good options now, if you're willing to self-host services: - calibre-web, as a pure web front end to the calibre db - Calibre Web Automated, which is a rewrite of the app, with a better web UI, that is faster and adds functionality - Grimmory, a Java-based book mgmt. app w/ a web front end too - BookOrbit, similar to Grimmory but written in Node and seem…

Surprised Kavita didn't make your list. Has KOReader/Send to Support out of the box and is extremely mature (5 years old) and feature rich.

Re: KOReader

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Post by paintballboi07 »

TaLiTr wrote: post #75
reinhardt1053 wrote: post #64

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What's the advantage of Grimmory over Booklore?

Have people moved on from Calibre? I've been slowly spinning up self-hosted services and Calibre was on my TODO. I haven't even heard of Booklore.

I tried both Grimmory (current booklore) and Calibre Web Automated, and I prefer the latter. You can also add Shelfmark to CWA to download books.

Re: KOReader

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Post by majora2007 »

overflowy wrote: post #139
wing-_-nuts wrote: post #107

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to be honest, I use the calibre ebook viewer without bothering with calibre itself (so far) and I find it to be good at what it does

I'm also using Calibre, but the ebook viewer is really clunky, I'm not a big fan.

You might want to check out Kavita, the epub reader is quite good.

Re: KOReader

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Post by wing-_-nuts »

overflowy wrote: post #139
wing-_-nuts wrote: post #107

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to be honest, I use the calibre ebook viewer without bothering with calibre itself (so far) and I find it to be good at what it does

I'm also using Calibre, but the ebook viewer is really clunky, I'm not a big fan.

The ux for the settings and such are ...special, but it does what I need it to do and I haven't sought out other options

Re: KOReader

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Post by jerojero »

themadturk wrote: post #182
CWuestefeld wrote: post #136

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I jailbroke my Kindle and moved to KOReader last year, primarily to get away from the Amazon jail. Just the bare KOReader UX was pretty utilitarian. It lacked polish for sure. I'll have to agree that, as noted elsewhere, the KOReader menus can be difficult to get a grip on. If you're working at just the most basic level of functionality, I don't think KOReader is necessarily worse than native Kindle. The latter is ha…

I've tried hard to make Bookshelf work for me, but I find the UI confusing, going off in unexpected directions, and it's very unintuitive. I've got SimpleUI at the moment and it's comfortable, even though the library interface is lacking.

Grimmory is pretty good as a calibre alternative. I use that and connect through the OPDS to koreader. Works well.
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