Ultimate Manga Reader
A feature-rich online manga reader for Kobo E-Ink devices.
Compared to the one I posted a few years ago it's basically a complete rewrite.
It's now based on the latest Qt5, it's standalone and has tons of new features, bugfixes and design improvements.
Features:- It comes with a refined, modern design and a GUI that is DPI independent and will look great on various platforms.
- It supports multiple websites as manga sources with tens of thousands of available mangas.
Currently supported websites are: MangaDex, MangaHub, MangaPanda, MangaTown and Mangakakalot/Manganelo.
- It's fast. It will stream, prerender and cache mangapages in advance while reading to minimize loading times and to enable the perfect reading experience.
- It supports offline-reading. Mangas can be downloaded in advance and read later without internet connection.
- It supports favorites and bookmarks reading progress automatically, so you can pick right up reading where you left off.
- It is designed to be ergonomic on E-Readers. It supports configurable gesture inputs, frontlight control and a sleep mode. Custom screensavers can be placed in the screensaver folder and will be picked at random.
You can find the source code and additional info
here.
How to install:
First you will need to install a launcher application. I recomend NickelMenu, the latest release along with install instructions can be found
here.
To add a launch entry in NickelMenu the following line has to be added to the config file:
Code:
menu_item :main :Ultimate Manga Reader :cmd_spawn :quiet:/mnt/onboard/.adds/UltimateMangaReader/ultimatemangareader.sh
For the application itself just download the latest release
here and extract the archive into the root directiory of your Kobo device.
Known issues:[LIST][*]Touchinputs work differently on every Kobo model and are currently broken for older devices. But also for some newer devices it's possible that touch inputs are rotated/flipped. To fix this you can try to modify the following parameters in the ultimatemangareader.sh startup script:
touchscreen_rotate=auto|0|90|180|270
touchscreen_invert_x=auto|0|1
touchscreen_invert_y=auto|0|1
Feedback is always appreciated.
At this point I have spent well over 1000 hours working on this project. If you like the app and want to support me you can send a paypal donation my way via
balduran174@gmail.com