On Wed, Dec 22 2021, Greg Farough wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22 2021, Caleb Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been tempted to get a Kobo. It prefers PDF and EPUB, but it gets >> software updates. > > I've had this page[1] bookmarked for a while, but have never > personally tried it. From what I understand, it could be a step above > the usual method of installing KOReader, as I think it also replaces > the nonfree "Nickel" software that's preloaded on the device. > > It seems like part of the build process for okreader is pulling in and > compiling a kernel -- I wonder if that could be pointed to the > identical linux-libre version. The lack of WiFi firmware wouldn't be > an issue, since KOReader enables USB storage, but I'm not sure how the > lack of "EPD controller firmware" would affect things. > > In the meantime, I enjoy reading books with nov.el in Emacs. :)
+1 to nov.el. I've been using it with follow-mode to get a double or even triple page view (you might want to remove the header for the follow mode to work properly) :) Would be interested in getting a full text search which is the only thing I miss from calibre's reader. > > -g > > [1]: https://github.com/lgeek/okreader Best, Yuchen -- PGP Key: 47F9 D050 1E11 8879 9040 4941 2126 7E93 EF86 DFD0 <https://ypei.me/assets/ypei-pubkey.txt>
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