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Originally Posted by martienne
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KoReader again! I'm guessing this is some modded or alternative software for a better reading experience. I'm getting too old for things like this, lol... I'll only change it if it can be done in under an hour.
Good to know. I'm not against tweaking and modding, if there are clear instructions. But I don't want to experiment or have to do complex hacks to make minor improvements.
Given this, does any other reader come to mind, that would be good for me?
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It takes less than a minute to install Koreader app thereon, once you have downloaded the necessary files and read the instructions, basically you just copy its folder into the e-reader, but you have to also install KSM (Kobo Start Menu) beforehand which takes another minute, and is just another case of a simple folder copying with restarting.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=293804
You can also similarly install Plato app, another promising pdf, epub, djvu reader that they would keep on with improving.
Koreader at work on Kobo Aura One
https://youtu.be/i2oSOeAnD10
Kobo Aura ONE PDF reader vs. KOReader reflow
https://youtu.be/RDQk1kuNMdI?t=4
Also, I don't think that 9.7" Onyx N96ml with 150 dpi Carta+ and frontlight is bad at all for pdf/djvu reading and annotating, and getting a used one for under 250 euros is currently a good idea IMO because there should not be problem of selling it for at least 180-200 euros by the end of the year if we wanted the latest frontlit model.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM3hTzA65NU&t=1s
p.s.
An useful reading tip for some Kobo Aura One owners;
when using its original pdf reader (in Nickel), I use double taps instead of scrolling, so, if I read a pdf book in landscape mode (zoomed-in at the screen width either by the menu width button or by double tapping), I double tap to get back to the whole page view and then again double tap on the bottom part of the page, to zoom-in into the bottom half of the page, it is quicker and less flickering.
When at the bottom of the zoomed page, one tap (right or left) will bring the beginning of the next or the previous page, zoomed at the screen width.
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If the pdf letters of the scanned book are to big in landscape mode (Kobo' screen is 16 cm wide in landscape and usually 13-14 cm text width is quite enough for any A5 pdf book and normal-sighted people) we can quickly add some side-margin using our PC or tablet and a page-size tool in any pdf editor.
It was useful for me on several ocasions even in Koreader' landscape mode, because the letters in the scanned pdf book with a very narrow side-margins were too big for my liking in landscape mode and too small in portraite mode (so, the text width was 15-16 cm wide instead of more agreeable 13-14 cm) and there is currently no percentage-zooming like e.g. in Koreader for Kindle DX, so, I've added a half of an inch margin on each side (takes just a half of minute using a page-size-tool in Adobe Acrobat, Pdf Element, free Pdf-Exchange etc.) and scanned pdf book i.e. its text width was at agreeable page width (about 13 cm) using landscape page-width-mode.
Or, even more quickly, we can simply change pdf size to A4 or bigger, and then crop it in Koreader thereafter for a desired text-width.
We can of course also use Koreader's very good reflow mode on any scanned pdf book (regardless whether there is OCR layer in the background or not) but unlike belletristics, some scientific books with a lot of formulas and special characters often yield a lot of OCR errors, so in such case it is better to use an exact print mode for the true WYSIWYG results, as well as in the case of complex page layouts.