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Originally Posted by poppe
Hi parkher.
I downloaded and have tried the coolreader -eink you mentioned as first choice. I find it works beautifully. The page turns buttons work but are the reverse order of normal. You can use the page turn buttons as volume keys and then they work as normal. When used as volume the long press forward to refresh the page does not work. So I would just use the normal setting as page turn button and press the other one when wanting to navigate forward or backwards.
I tried to change the font and bold the font. It worked.
I could navigate through the menus with the page forward/backward buttons (I think you asked about that) sometimes.
To open a book in the file browser worked.
I did not find any resent books option.
There are some shortcomings though:
The i86 is equipt with a 3,5mm female earphone jack so you can connect it to earphones and listen to text-to-speech (tts). For some reason jotas version is stripped of this feature.
The "more" submenue in jotas version is stripped of quite a lot of different subheadings.
apart from tts it misses:
toggle text auto format
open previous book
Toggle automatic page flipping
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As to the page turn buttons, it should be possible to re-assign them in the settings of CoolReader as well (I am using swapped next/previous buttons on T2)
Recent books - I use it all the time, my favorite way to open also new books, not only recent ones. And yet, I too cannot find such an option
I have it mapped to a hardware button as a double press (T2 has 5 buttons).
It is also possible to assign it to a tap zone - probably it is the only way to use it if there are not enough buttons.
In the CoolReader settings you can configure 9 tap zones, 2 actions for each tap zone. The secondary action for each tap zone can be set globally either to long tap or double tap so that the opposite tap can be configured for something else, for example, to pass a word to a dictionary.
Toggle text auto format? I am frequently using toggling between the internal book formatting and CoolReader formatting. There is a check box in settings (Enable document internal styles), but I have it mapped to a button as well. I might have it on a tap zone on a device with not enough buttons.
Jotas version does not have many in my view unnecessary features. It is an advantage to me, especially on a 6" reader.
1) - it better supports buttons (at least, the 5 buttons of T2) and better supports e-ink (although I have not tested the latest builds of the official version).
2) - it better supports landscape orientation (important to me on 6", but not on 6.8" or 8" obviously)
For example, from the recent list I can get faster (with a single long tap) to the additional actions and the actions I need are at once visible at the bottom while in the official version they are at the top and not even visible, and you have to scroll down (buttons do not work!). So you need to scroll down (on e-ink!!) only then you see the actions. In portrait mode they might be available at once, though, and on 8" landscape mode is not needed.
Likewise some other things in various settings were tailored to better support landscape. Also the status bar can be configured to have a continuous thin line instead of unnecessary progress indicator, etc.
But I have not tested newest official builds - they were going in the wrong direction when I stopped using them - adding more and more bells and whistles for phones...
BTW, can you see the (books on the) external card with the built-in file manager of CoolReader?