MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Can't Get KSM to Start, Therefore Can't Get KoReader

NiLuJe · 04-03-2019, 07:30 PM

That particular quirk of the Kobo release zips is because they bundle a README and a koreader.png for fmon-purposes that *may* badly interact with (very) legacy fmon setups.

In practice, it's in 99% of the cases useless legacy cruft, which is why that's gone from the semi-auto packages

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TL;DR: As you found out, what you did should just work, as would directly extracting the zip (... in most every cases; certainly yours, as your device was pristine).

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Plato is another, younger document reader, while KFMon is a simple launcher that piggybacks on the native Library, instead of being a full-fledged app with an UI.

See the wiki install page for a quick rundown of what this means in practice re: KSM vs. KFMon

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04-03-2019, 07:30 PM	#9
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	That particular quirk of the Kobo release zips is because they bundle a README and a koreader.png for fmon-purposes that may badly interact with (very) legacy fmon setups. In practice, it's in 99% of the cases useless legacy cruft, which is why that's gone from the semi-auto packages . TL;DR: As you found out, what you did should just work, as would directly extracting the zip (... in most every cases; certainly yours, as your device was pristine). ---- Plato is another, younger document reader, while KFMon is a simple launcher that piggybacks on the native Library, instead of being a full-fledged app with an UI. See the wiki install page for a quick rundown of what this means in practice re: KSM vs. KFMon . Last edited by NiLuJe; 04-03-2019 at 07:34 PM.