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blue_skies · 01-31-2019, 08:19 PM

You're welcome Mihail_bc, I hope it helps.

I have a couple questions about the built-in reading app and also about fonts...

First of all, does anyone know what the built-in Boyue reading app is based on? In my previous Boyue ereader, the built-in reading apps were FB2 Reader and Adobe, and the user could set either one of those as the default. (You could use outside Android apps of course, but couldn't set one as the default.)

The reason I'm curious is because the Boyue reading app on the Likebook Mimas seems to have snappier page turns than the outside apps I've tried, but it does a terrible job with punctuation -- too much of a space before the period at the end of a sentence; breaking up I and 've at a line break -- that sort of thing. Those are the kind of bugs I remember about Adobe and the reason I always used FB2 Reader as the default app in my Boyue T62+. It rendered so much better than Adobe... so I'm surprised the Mimas only has one built-in reading app and seems to be the poorer of the two they went with previously.

One positive about the Boyue reading app on the Mimas is that they don't have a lot of pre-installed fonts, which I find aggravating to scroll through to get to the ones I actually like.

Which brings me to my next question about deleting fonts:

I am using AlReader because of the previously mentioned issues with the built-in app, but it has a ton of pre-installed fonts that I have to scroll through (in a difficult to read pop-up window) before I can get to the fonts I like that I put into the sdcard/fonts folder. When I look in the 'fonts' folder, I don't see any fonts other than the ones I placed there, and when I look in the AlReader folder, I don't see any fonts.

Does anybody know where those fonts might be and how I can remove them? I have been unable to find any suggestions, instructions, or even a discussion about this. (Maybe I'm the only person who cares to delete the fonts I don't like and will never use, but what can I say?, it bugs me.)

I have wanted to do the same for the built-in FB2 Reader app on my older device also, so if anyone knows how I can do that too, please let me know. Perhaps it is only possible on a rooted device though? In which case I will have to pass on that.

01-31-2019, 08:19 PM	#184
blue_skies Evangelist Posts: 405 Karma: 1143880 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Ohio Device: Mobiscribe Wave B&W; Kindle Scribe; Boyue Mimas & 62+; KindleKeyboard	You're welcome Mihail_bc, I hope it helps. I have a couple questions about the built-in reading app and also about fonts... First of all, does anyone know what the built-in Boyue reading app is based on? In my previous Boyue ereader, the built-in reading apps were FB2 Reader and Adobe, and the user could set either one of those as the default. (You could use outside Android apps of course, but couldn't set one as the default.) The reason I'm curious is because the Boyue reading app on the Likebook Mimas seems to have snappier page turns than the outside apps I've tried, but it does a terrible job with punctuation -- too much of a space before the period at the end of a sentence; breaking up I and 've at a line break -- that sort of thing. Those are the kind of bugs I remember about Adobe and the reason I always used FB2 Reader as the default app in my Boyue T62+. It rendered so much better than Adobe... so I'm surprised the Mimas only has one built-in reading app and seems to be the poorer of the two they went with previously. One positive about the Boyue reading app on the Mimas is that they don't have a lot of pre-installed fonts, which I find aggravating to scroll through to get to the ones I actually like. Which brings me to my next question about deleting fonts: I am using AlReader because of the previously mentioned issues with the built-in app, but it has a ton of pre-installed fonts that I have to scroll through (in a difficult to read pop-up window) before I can get to the fonts I like that I put into the sdcard/fonts folder. When I look in the 'fonts' folder, I don't see any fonts other than the ones I placed there, and when I look in the AlReader folder, I don't see any fonts. Does anybody know where those fonts might be and how I can remove them? I have been unable to find any suggestions, instructions, or even a discussion about this. (Maybe I'm the only person who cares to delete the fonts I don't like and will never use, but what can I say?, it bugs me.) I have wanted to do the same for the built-in FB2 Reader app on my older device also, so if anyone knows how I can do that too, please let me know. Perhaps it is only possible on a rooted device though? In which case I will have to pass on that.