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Re: KOReader

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this is the worst kind of pedantic engineer comment that seems to infest this site. they're obviously talking about the frontlight. dark mode reflects much much less light back at the user through the lightguide because the dark bg absorbs more of the light.

It wasn't obvious. My thought process was that they were equating ereaders with eink displays, and they had a non-eink ereader. To me, emitting light and reflecting light are completely different. (I suppose I'm not supposed to feel complimented by the term 'engineer'? I'm not trained/experienced in any engineering discipline, not even software engineering.)

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Re: KOReader

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If you use a Kindle, you have to jailbreak it first before installing it. There's definitely been some improvements with user experience at least with apps since I first jailbroke it. There's like an appstore with games and KOReader that I use. This is the guide I used and it's up to date. https://kindlemodding.org/

I knew I kept this tab open a week for a reason :) thank you!

Re: KOReader

#253

If you use a Kindle, you have to jailbreak it first before installing it. There's definitely been some improvements with user experience at least with apps since I first jailbroke it. There's like an appstore with games and KOReader that I use. This is the guide I used and it's up to date. https://kindlemodding.org/

I knew I kept this tab open a week for a reason :) thank you!

Enjoy

Re: KOReader

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Thanks for the BookOrbit hint. Seems very interesting. I see it supports audiobooks and ebooks. Do you know if there is any way for keeping sync between an audiobook and ebook?

It does not have any sort of "whispersync" but, ironically?, I feel like whispersync could be recreated with things like Whisper and parsing the epub/whatever to line up progress. BookOrbit is in active development from what I can see (I'm not connected to the project, just a happy user) and it wouldn't surprise me if that was a feature in the future. It's something I've mulled over building for a while (even before…

if your on iphone or ipad witbound basically does what whispersync does but its your m4b and epub files
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