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Originally Posted by crimsonsnow
Okay, this is pretty interesting. Able to open azw3 but not html, hmm.
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Well, priorities I guess.
You can always open html in the browser that is installed on the phone by default.
And the vast majority of html files are better readable on the other side of the phone with smooth scrolling and zooming of images IMHO. Not e-books, I know. But e-books in html format are much rarer nowadays then 15 years ago.
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Originally Posted by crimsonsnow
What's the difference between using Yotareader and mirroring you reader-of-choice except the Widget support?
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There is quite a difference.
I will have to play during the weekend with the setting of the apps for e-ink screen - B/W vs 16 levels of gray for the other apps.
There is quite a lot of ghosting in my AlReader when run the way I have set it up using app I wrote about a few posts back.
FBReader goes belly-up when you try to activate e-ink from the menu in app (not mirroring), because the functionality was developed for YotaPhone 1. I think that they used that modified FBReader as a base for YotaReader (haven't looked inside the *.apk file yet). This might be the reason YotaReader supports such surprisingly large number of formats.
CoolReader behaves very weird on the e-ink display. I suspect I have screwed something up when I tried to set mirroring.cfg for CoolReader. It doesn't refresh the display properly.
Here is the app you can use to modify the e-ink refresh and "color" depth and waveform for individual apps on e-ink. Please note, it only works on Android 5.0
http://forum.xda-developers.com/yota...1-0-0-t3326208
MAKE A BACKUP of the configuration file
/storage/emulated/0/TitaniumManager/mirroring.cfg
before you start playing, you might want to go back to the original setting or use the original file and automatically generated file to make changes by hand.
Any other reading app I have tried to use on the back screen you have to start from the Android main screen[s] or menu, or place a button on the e-ink widget screen. When you switch the phone off the app will remain for a while on the back screen and after a certain time (20minutes ?) the back screen will revert to a default Widget screen, so if you pick up the phone after certain time and want to continue reading you will have to start the app again, or switch on the mirror functionality.
I like to read in landscape and with other reading apps I never know how to turn the phone when flipping it, so I always end up having the app upside down when I flip the phone. I expect that when I settle on one particular app I will get used to that and will learn the flip the phone the right way. The phone will function as my ad-hoc, out-of-house reading device 90% of the time.
YotaReader will revert to displaying the cover of the book you are reading on the e-ink screen after certain time. I miss the option to display the author and title on the status line, so I like this functionality as a replacement. With e-books it can be difficult to remember the title and author of the book you are reading - especially if it is a book by some previously unknown [to you] author. On the other hand, if I liked to read racy bodice rippers, or whatever controversial book, I would have to use Calibre to replace the cover with something generic
YotaReader has two distinct modes - Amoled and e-ink. It remembers settings for each side, so you can have white text on black background on the main screen and black text on white on e-ink. Sadly, it haven't found out how to switch it to landscape on the Amoled. I also miss the ability to tweak the light level directly from YotaReader and independently from the main Android UI - the way other e-book reading apps let you set it.
I am a power user and a tinkerer and in general I strongly dislike e-book reading apps that I can't set to my liking. For this reason I strongly dislike Kindles, for example.
Very surprisingly, I have found the default (and the only possible) setting on the YotaReader quite reasonable, and I have been using the app for reading almost exclusively since I got the phone. Especially after the update to 5.0. Before that the YotaReader was *WAY* too spartan.
I do miss some options in YotaReader, like having time in the status line, so I am going to spend some time trying to set up other e-book reading apps on the YotaPhone the way I like them.
One thing that baffles me is: most of the e-book reading apps I have tried behave differently on different Android devices. Even the same version of the app.