07-13-2013, 10:02 PM | #241 | |
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If you want to try anyhow, what I can tell you is that the glo, mini, and aura use the same Kobo software. koreader seems to use this software to learn about the reader that it is run on, then it does it stuff. I can't tell you that it will work since I'm an Aura user, but it should work. |
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07-13-2013, 11:17 PM | #242 |
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I was thinking of making a "How To" thread for having both Koreader and Nickel on a Kobo device, without conflict. I also only have an AuraHD, but the Mark 4 devices are all running under the same Kobo firmware. The Koreader port is also common to all the Kobo devices. So, the basic use of sergeyvl12's Launcher and Giorgio's Koreader port should be pretty straight forward and certainly should work on all the devices.
The hacking of the Koreader internal files to change menu font sizes and allow for showing hidden files in the File Manager that you see in the last couple of pages of this thread, are not all necessary to get the programs working. The hidden file hack is needed if you wish to have a large library of thousands of ebooks on your external uSD card and not have Nickel trying to Process the content, forever. Before I try to put it all together in one mostly coherent "How To" I thought that I should wait until Giorgio gets back from holiday. Also, I want to see if sergeyvl12 or XOR_ can make a selection menu that allows a branching to either his Launcher menu or Koreader. That way we get around the weird corruption that Koreader gets when launched from the Launcher menu, and still have access to the rest of the Launcher functions and games. Right now I am using his launcher with the script modified to start Koreader, instead of the Launcher menu. Luck; Ken Last edited by Ken Maltby; 07-14-2013 at 01:16 AM. |
07-14-2013, 12:51 AM | #243 |
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07-14-2013, 04:54 AM | #244 |
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BWmill, Ken, and everybody else: just a big thank you! I am in no hurry, and very grateful for your altruism, and very happy to see koreader developing so nicely and fully. If only you could make notes to work, too
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07-14-2013, 05:09 AM | #245 |
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Can anyone say which are the main feature of the project?
And what about the original firmware, is still possible to use it after installing koreader? Can I suggest to make a video and add the link and the above info in the first post? I'm curious to know and see In the github page, it is written "created for usage on the Kindle e-ink reader. It currently supports Kindle 5 (Touch) and Kindle Paperwhite" just because the kobo version need more testing? Last edited by hreader; 07-14-2013 at 05:15 AM. |
07-14-2013, 07:01 AM | #246 | |
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What I did to get the dictionary working was: 1) Install the latest version of KOreader in .kobo with KoboLaucher and muness tweak to the script. An overview of the install is given in post #84 of muness. Bullets 4 and 5 are optional. The optional mod of cgm999 is in #137. 2) Copy dictionary files to .kobo/koreader/data/dict. 3) Copy OCR files to .kobo/koreader/data/tessdata. Ad 2.) You can get the files for dictionaries here. Unzip it into three files with extensions .ifo, .idx and .dict.dz . Unzip the dict.dz-file further into a dict-file. Copy the ifo-, idx- and dict-file into .kobo/koreader/data/dict on your reader. (I've installed the englisch Wordnet-dictionary and the german Duden-dictionary and apparently it knows which dictionary to use.) Ad 3.) You can get the OCR (optical character recognition) files from here. Again unzip and move the entire tessdata-directory into .kobo/koreader/data/dict on your reader. (There should now be 9 files all starting with "eng." in .kobo/koreader/data/dict/tessdata.) (Apparently there is no need for german OCR-files for it to work, but maybe you should add the traineddata-files for umlauts and such...) Last edited by Markismus; 07-16-2013 at 04:37 PM. |
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07-14-2013, 07:34 AM | #248 |
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In .kobo\koreader\frontend\document\credocument.lua I've added at the end the lines:
DocumentRegistry:addProvider("lua", "application/txt", CreDocument) Now I can read the script-files on my Kobo. DocumentRegistry:addProvider("sh", "application/txt", CreDocument) What I want is an editor, like the notepad from the KoboLaucher. Unfortunately I can't get that one to work from the prompt: [root@(none) ~]# cd /mnt/onboard/.kobo/KoboLauncher/Qt/lib Does anyone know of an alternative?
[root@(none) lib]# ../../notepad/notepad Did not receive a connection event from the qws server Aborted |
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As a nice side effect this content will not be processed by Nickel. I created some test folders on the device with 5000 books in different subfolders. I found that a maximum of 500 books per folder should not be exceeded, otherwise the file processing would be too slow. Koreader managed 2500 books in one folder, before crashing. Anything between 100-300 books seems to work without flaws and with appropriate speed. edit: still some issues with remembering bookmarks and style-sheets... Last edited by trekk; 07-14-2013 at 08:11 AM. |
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07-14-2013, 11:25 AM | #251 | |
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Your access and use of the original Kobo software is not effected by also having the Koreader installed, in fact you launch Koreader from within the Kobo User Interface (UI). The Koreader Project was as an alternative reader program for the Kindle reading devices, originally for its PDF reading functions. Giorgio130 has been generous enough and dedicated enough to create a port of the Koreader that allows it to run on Kobo ereading devices. (See the first post of this thread.) While I do have some experience with Video production and editing, it has been some time and the process I am used to is very time consuming. I guess a quick and dirty Youtube type video is possible but it would be just to show how it looks in operation, not a walkthrough of the modding process that was used. Luck; Ken |
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07-14-2013, 11:28 AM | #252 |
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07-14-2013, 11:36 AM | #253 |
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The appreciation is nice, but giorgio130 and cgm999 and xor_ are the ones doing the hard work here so the biggest thank-you of all really ought to go to them! (My apologies if I missed a few of the heavy lifters here. The blame is mine for not following this thread more carefully.)
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07-14-2013, 11:40 AM | #254 | |
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As long as I get to read the books that are contained in my .pdb files, as well as those in my .epub or .mobi files. It's not .pdb's fault that it is only a container! Why are you so mean?? Luck; Ken |
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07-14-2013, 11:48 AM | #255 |
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No Ken; the point ius that a PDB can contain MANY MANY types of information; In the Palm world a PDB was a generic extension. The fact that many eBooks of that era were stored in PDBs does NOT make PDB an eBook format. That is what I am saying.
I could easilh send you a PDB that koreader would not be able to open. |
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