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Originally Posted by Dopedangel
Is jotas coolreader really that different from the official release I use the official playstore release on my T62d with energy sistem pro plus rom that has the built in playstore. Coolreader detects it automatically as an eink device and its page turn buttons work out the box. Btw although I still use the folder system that is no longer actually needed as I use calibre companion and as the author of cc also has a a T62 he has made the app compatible with eink devices. CC is a lot better at finding books series author etc than using the coolreaders file browser. It also has the option to set the cover of the last book you opened with calibre companion as the screensaver.
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Are you sure the buttons work not only for turning pages but also in various tabs of settings and in the file manager and in the recent books list? And can you map them in the official CR to anything you want to also in double press and long press modes, so you have 6 buttons?
I haven't tried the official version for a few years now, because with each next "improvement" it kept getting worse and worse. And the author of the official version did not respond to requests to fix things.
Jotas, on the other hand, was very helpful and implemented everything I ever asked him for. And I asked him for a number of things, even for not related to e-ink ones - for example, how the status line separator should look (a secret value was introduced, if you enter it - it looks much better), etc. So his version is tailored to my taste and specifically, for landscape orientation.
It supports portrait as well, of course, but some things were moved around to make the more important ones available on the screen directly even in landscape so that no buttons or scrolling are needed. The official version did the opposite: more unnecessary things were added pushing useful items out of the screen and requiring stupid animated scrolling because buttons were not working.
Yes, there were problems with the buttons with the official release. But I am using T2 with 5 buttons. I am not sure how things look like with the latest official release with only 2 buttons.
But even the page turning buttons were not working correctly in settings in the official release last I tried it.
I haven't tried CC yet. Not sure if it even runs on android 2.2.1.
But what happens with CC if you put 50 thousand books on a card?
The internal file manager is not choking with such numbers as long as the books are split into multiple nested folders. I usually keep them in folders like this:
AUTHORS
....A
....B
....C
....---
....S
........Smith, John
............[Series 1 name]
...............01. Book 1 title.epub
...............02. Book 2 title.epub
...............---
............[Series 2 name]
............---
............[Series n name]
............(anthologies)
............(collaborations)
............stand-alone
............... A title (2016).epub
............short fiction
............collections
............non-fiction
....---
....Z
ANTHOLOGIES
COLLABORATIONS
Where folders named (something) contain only links or something that serves as links.
So there are 4 inner levels in this example. I actually have even more levels
