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Did you know? BookShelves has a built-in Calibre wireless server. Send books to KOReader on your e-ink reader over Wi-Fi, no cables needed. Reading progress syncs back automatically.

Anyone here using KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook? What's your sync setup like?

#Bookstodon #FediReads #KOReader #Calibre #ebooks #BookShelves #eink

Did you know? BookShelves has a built-in Calibre wireless server. Send books to KOReader on your e-ink reader over Wi-Fi, no cables needed. Reading progress syncs back automatically.

Anyone here using KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook? What's your sync setup like?

#Bookstodon #FediReads #KOReader #Calibre #ebooks #BookShelves #eink

Did you know? BookShelves has a built-in Calibre wireless server. Send books to KOReader on your e-ink reader over Wi-Fi, no cables needed. Reading progress syncs back automatically.

Anyone here using KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook? What's your sync setup like?

#Bookstodon #FediReads #KOReader #Calibre #ebooks #BookShelves #eink

Did you know? BookShelves has a built-in Calibre wireless server. Send books to KOReader on your e-ink reader over Wi-Fi, no cables needed. Reading progress syncs back automatically.

Anyone here using KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook? What's your sync setup like?

#Bookstodon #FediReads #KOReader #Calibre #ebooks #BookShelves #eink

Did you know? BookShelves has a built-in Calibre wireless server. Send books to KOReader on your e-ink reader over Wi-Fi, no cables needed. Reading progress syncs back automatically.

Anyone here using KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook? What's your sync setup like?

#Bookstodon #FediReads #KOReader #Calibre #ebooks #BookShelves #eink

Did the thing, installed #KoReader on my #Kindle paperwhite 2. Stick it to the man!

I've been working on an implementation in Go of the KOReader Sync stuff for a self-hostable sync server

https://github.com/Brunty/koreader-sync

Are there others out there that also do this? Yes

Did this need to exist? Maybe not

Am I having fun working on it as it's a simple project to get to grips with some stuff in Go because I'm new to that language? Yes

Am I already using it as the target for KOReader Sync on my #PocketBook Era Color? Yes

#KOReader #KOReaderSync #SelfHosting #eReaders #Learning

The ebook reader that i personally use is #koreader and #Readest

#koreader because of vocabulary builder, reading statistics, dictionary, syncing

#readest for TTS functionality

awesome thing is that we can sync the page progress between #koreader and #readest

#andriod #ebook #opensource

https://github.com/readest/readest/wiki/Sync-with-Koreader-devices

You want to export your timeline, a specific tag, a list of followed accounts... in your pocket for an offline reading ?

#SmolFedi permits it now!

You can choose, in prefs, the number of exported posts, CW/sensitive media inclusion, width of images...

#XteinkX4 #Xteink #KOReader #epub #ebook

demo instance source/install

✍️ I wrote a guide describing how I'm using the $69 Xteink X4 as a serious part of my reading workflow:

https://brie.dev/tiny-ereader

I love this ultra-portable notification-free reading environment that syncs with my KOReader devices!

💰 I'm sorry about your wallet!

#XteinkX4 #Xteink #KOReader

One of my biggest regrets from the past few years was losing the habit of reading books. All the usual excuses: child to look after, too tired, not enough time…

I didn’t read a ton, but I had an average of 30 books a year. Last year I must have read 6. This year in early April I was at 0… and the realization shook me to my core.

Something had to be done.

I found out about KOreader and SimpleUI - having on an e-reader homepage a bar with reading stats would be an incredible motivator… I thought.

Jailbroke my #Kindle, installed #KOreader and #SimpleUI. And 18 days later I have… an 18 day reading streak and I’m averaging 43 minutes of reading time per day. I’m just so happy! 😊

(Unrelated but #Technofeudalism is REALLY GOOD - off to go resume reading it for another 20 minutes or so).

#books #reading #habits #KindleJailbreak

Angeregt durch @foosel hab ich mir auch einen XTEink zugelegt.

Jetzt gibts allerdings das Problem mit dem Sync. Hat jemand zufällig einen XTEink und einen weiteren Reader mit KOReader am laufen und es geschafft über irgendein Backend den Progress zu syncen? #ereader #xteink #koreader

Kurzum: #Koreader ist fantastisch und der Aufwand war es wert! Ich bin gespannt wie lange ich meinen 14 Jahre alten ebook reader noch verwenden werde.
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Theoretisch könnte man nun noch mit Calibre die auf Amazon gekauften Bücher befreien und in epub zu wandeln um auch weiterhin Zugriff auf sie zu haben. Aber ich bin ja kein Monster...
7/7
#did_dut #dutgemacht #didit #diday

Apropos #Koreader Plugins: Eigentlich wollte ich meinen Lesefortschritt auf #Goodreads posten. Doch Goodreads hat wohl schon vor einiger Zeit die API abgeschaltet. Als Alternative fand ich nach kurzer Suche #hardcoverapp. Dafür gibt es eine API und ein Koreader plugin. Außerdem gibt es einen goodreads importer. Dies machte den Umzug sehr einfach. Bonus: Den Goodreads Account konnte ich auch schliessen. (Ja, auch Goodreads gehört zu Amazon)
https://hardcover.app/blog/why
5/7
#did_dut #dutgemacht #didit

Apropos #Koreader Plugins: Eigentlich wollte ich meinen Lesefortschritt auf #Goodreads posten. Doch Goodreads hat wohl schon vor einiger Zeit die API abgeschaltet. Als Alternative fand ich nach kurzer Suche #hardcoverapp. Dafür gibt es eine API und ein Koreader plugin. Außerdem gibt es einen goodreads importer. Dies machte den Umzug sehr einfach. Bonus: Den Goodreads Account konnte ich auch schliessen. (Ja, auch Goodreads gehört zu Amazon)
https://hardcover.app/blog/why
5/7
#did_dut #dutgemacht #didit

Apropos #Koreader Plugins: Eigentlich wollte ich meinen Lesefortschritt auf #Goodreads posten. Doch Goodreads hat wohl schon vor einiger Zeit die API abgeschaltet. Als Alternative fand ich nach kurzer Suche #hardcoverapp. Dafür gibt es eine API und ein Koreader plugin. Außerdem gibt es einen goodreads importer. Dies machte den Umzug sehr einfach. Bonus: Den Goodreads Account konnte ich auch schliessen. (Ja, auch Goodreads gehört zu Amazon)
https://hardcover.app/blog/why
5/7
#did_dut #dutgemacht #didit

#KOReader + #Kindle update:
Win: I installed a dictionary! Woohoo!

Fail: I've just installed a plugin called "Zen UI", in my quest to make KOReader look not-ugly. Restarted my Kindle, and I'm met with a "Welcome to Zen UI" screen which tells me to "swipe or tap Next to continue", neither of which I can do because my Kindle is not a touchscreen, and none of the physical buttons seem to do anything in this UI.
My device is now frozen on this screen. I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that a force-restart will open it in a state that allows me to connect it to my laptop and delete the Zen UI plugin.

Assuming this doesn't end up bricking my device, the search for a non-ugly KOReader __that can exist on a non-touchscreen Kindle__ will continue...

@jacobscharmberg SP305590 from www.subtel.de ; they delivered reasonably fast in Germany. Also happy to see #instapaper replaced #pocket functionality in Kobos. There's also the #koreader functionality I haven't installed yet.

I'm reading on my #Kindle in the late afternoon sun, using #KOReader. I just looked up a term in a book, had it pull up the Wikipedia article, and found out that KOReader has a "Save to EPUB" function for Wikipedia entries. I love that.

Got myself a new not-a-Kindle #eReader that, with a bit of work, let's you setup your own sleep screens.

I also got #koReader setup on it as the default book reader and that's working great with progress syncing back to my #Calibre app on my computer.

#DungeonCrawlerCarl #ebook #Bookstodon #PocketBook

👩‍💻​ My So Called Sudo Life: Jailbroken Kindle edition 📖​

If you followed my #Jailbreaking adventures this past week, I'd like to add a final chapter on the positive effect it had on my reading habits.

Long story short: I used to be an avid reader and I had sadly lost the habit of reading books in the last couple of years (blaming tiredness at the end of the day). I had been looking for a system to encourage me to get back on track. When I found out about #KOreader and #SimpleUI I was totally smitten: an elegant interface that kept track of my reading stats? Sign me up!

In the photo I've attached you can see my reading stats for the past week - aka since I started using KOreader and SimpleUI. If you don't want to squint / find it harder to read: my daily reading average is about 40 minutes. Not bad! I'm just absolutely delighted by this.

#KindleJailbreak #reading #books #habits #MySoCalledSudoLife

If anyone else there is using KOReader on a jailbroken Kindle, there's a relatively new plugin for borrowing ebooks from your library via Libby/OverDrive:

https://github.com/kaikozlov/acsm.koplugin

At first it did not want to do anything at all on my device; it didn't even show up as a an option under "Open With ..." in the file browser. But, I realized that my installation of KOReader was a little out of date. Updating KOReader to the current version made the plugin function correctly.

#KOReader

@thibaultamartin I read using koreader on my Kobo. I believe there are stats hidden away somewhere in the system but I definitely do not see them.

Unless you turn the status bar on, the interface is just the text of the book you are reading. The only statistic I care about sometimes is how far through a book I am, just to know whether to keep on reading to finish a book or get some sleep instead. ;-)

#Kobo #KOReader

👩🏻‍💻 my so-called sudo life - day 490: #KindleJailbreak edition 🆓

Regarding yesterday's post on the Kindle jailbreak: it is SO WORTH it.

I hope I didn't discourage anyone by saying how much I struggled with it. Well, I had a 15 YEAR OLD device and the online tutorials didn't work with it. I finally managed to install KUAL after finding a Reddit thread that gave step-by-step advice for the Kindle 4 gen.

I was really bummed that highlighting didn't work for it so I bit the bullet and got my hands on the cheapest e-reader I could find yesterday: a Kindle 11 gen with ads.

Mind you, I'm in the Italian countryside at the moment and it's a miracle they had it in stock at my local superstore. I would have preferred a Kobo but it is what it is.

Jailbreaking a recent Kindle is child's play. I was happy to see that it was not on the latest firmware, so it was easily jailbreakable.

So:

1. jailbreaking it
2. installing a HotFix to prevent OTA updates
3. installing KUAL
4. installing KOreader
5. installing SimpleUI
6. removing ads
7. installing custom transparent wallpapers
8. transferring books to it

took a little over an hour. Easy peasy.

The backlight was great at 2:30am (I was woken up by my child coughing and couldn't easily fall back asleep). Very happy that I can do highlights in KOreader and now the ultimate test is how I can transfer the highlights to my computer / Calibre.

If you're on the fence, I'd say, go for it. This is the excellent guide I used: https://kindlemodding.org

For inspo: look up #KOreader and #SimpleUI homepages to realize what you could do

#MySoCalledSudoLife #Kindle #modding #jailbreak

👩🏻‍💻 my so-called sudo life - day 489: new experiments edition 🧪

A blog post that chronicles what I have been up to since December... namely: advocating for the Fediverse, creating #selfhosting guides for newbies and experimenting with e-reader jailbreaks and off-grid mesh radio communications

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-so-called-sudo-life-day-489-new-experiments-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #KindleJailbreak #KOreader #SimpleUI #meshtastic #blog #tech #resistance

Every time my configuration gets borked, I end up tinkering with my #Kobo and figuring out more things you can do with the FOSS ecosystem that's accumulated around it. This time, it was simpleUI https://github.com/doctorhetfield-cmd/simpleui.koplugin and Kobo sync integration https://ogkevin.github.io/kobo.koplugin/ , which together made me realize that I hadn't paid nearly enough attention to the #KOReader plugin options. I'm steadily creeping toward preferring it over Kobo's Nickel OS.

Hmmm, no #KOReader package or download for #FreeBSD. 😥

Finally jailbroke my Kindle & installed KOreader.

#kindle #jailbreak #koreader

Default #koReader is... hard, but this plugin changes that just dropping the folder in its place and almost zero configuration

via @joel

https://fosstodon.org/@joel/116423755635159318

I just discovered that there's actually a plugin to have an actually pretty interface on #Koreader!

Here's how it looks on my #Kobo Clara 2E! But it's super customizable and has a lot of modules and ways to arrange things, enjoy!

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

Ajuntarse es bien.

Extensión para #KOReader , leyendo artículos de #Readeck 👌
https://github.com/iceyear/readeck.koplugin

Vía :rssblobcattoma: https://readeck.org/en/blog/202602-readeck-22/

I love what’s achievable with Free Software.

I can sync reading progress across my e-reader with #koreader, my phone with #readest and I’ve now hacked together a way of syncing them with #emacs Nov mode. The code needs cleaning up a bit and I’ll put it on Codeberg soon.

Finally got #Wallabag working through Docker! For some reason that was completely opaque to me, it was a complete ball-ache to get working with my proxy manager, but finally it works!

I've been using #Karakeep up until now as my article bookmark/read-it-later app, which works really well, but I really wanted to make use of the #KOReader Wallabag integration to read saved articles on my eBook reader.

Was it worth it? Almost certainly not.

Anyway, next on my list to figure out - FitTrackee.

Enjoying my old #Kindle refreshed with #koreader. The guide worked like a charm for a 2017 firmware model and cannot decide which feature is the best so far. (Heart says it's the terminal emulator :allthethings: )

#amazon #deamazonification #ink #eink #firmware #jailbreak #books #readingclub

I’m a big fan of #koreader but I recently found #readest which I think is better suited to non e-ink displays. They’re also working on being able to sync with KOreader.

https://github.com/readest/readest

#KOReader
An #ebook #reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on #Cervantes, #Kindle, #Kobo, #PocketBook and #Android devices.
http://koreader.rocks/
#EPUB #PDF #DjVu #XPS #CBT #CBZ #FB2 #PDB #TXT #HTML #RTF #CHM #DOC #MOBI #ZIP

In "The Raid on the Termites" (Paul Ernst, 1932), an #entomologist daydreams about being shrunk to ant-size and exploring a #termite mound. His friend finds the notion of being “suddenly confronted by a thing as big as a horse, with fifteen-foot jaws of steely horn that could slice [him] in two” exciting. Jim imagines writing a book:

  “What a book of travel it would make! ‘The Raid on the Termites. Exploring an Insect Hell. Death in an Ant-hill…’”
  “Termitary! Termitary!” corrected Denny irritably.

Doing a long press on the word, what sayeth Wiktionary in #koReader?

_Termitary: an anthill built and occupied by termites._

#words #vocabulary #termites #insects