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Originally Posted by latepaul
Mostly out of curiosity last night I followed the instructions in the "Adding alternative readers..." thread and had a play with Koreader and Coolreader.
That thread and the related ones in the developer's forum are about how-to install and avoiding resolving various pitfalls and problems. However what I wondered was - what are the main reasons people are installing these for? What are the "killer" features?
For me they seem OK but there's nothing that jumped out as being so much better than the built in reader software. I did try "night mode" but think I prefer it the normal mode more.
Is it about support for different formats? More control over layout etc?
Just curious.
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Two reasons that seem to pop up fairly often is the support for more formats such as the old fb2 format and the better handling of .pdf files. At this point, there is no support for .lit ebooks which I do have a fair collection of though most have been converted to epub with convertlit and then editing with sigil to clean up the results.
The ebooks I keep on my Kobo are either in .epub or .cbr/cbz format but I keep playing with Koreader (using advboot). Night mode is available with the stock reader using a patch as is the two finger gestures for the older (prior to the Aura and it's capacitive touch screen) models.
I do find the patches based on Metazoa's work useful and so far, I haven't had issues with them.
Regards,
David