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pazos · 01-02-2022, 08:41 AM

That's a fair warning.

Sidecar folders have nothing to do with kindles besides historical reasons. In the beginning KOReader was made for Kindles, so authors repurposed the sdr folders that Kindles use. Nowadays we use the same structure for all platforms.

So yeah: you'll end with one .sdr subfolder for each book you open in KOReader (unless the book is opened from read only storage medium).

If you want to remove all those folders and you keep all your books in /home/moonbase59/books you can type from the terminal:

Code:

find /home/moonbase59/books -name "*.sdr" -type d -exec rm -rv {} \;

That aside I see no point in using KOReader in the desktop unless you're already using it in other platforms and want to keep the same reader in all of them.

For most people the calibre reader or foliate will be better alternatives.

01-02-2022, 08:41 AM	#6
pazos cosiñeiro Posts: 1,406 Karma: 2451781 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: BQ Cervantes 4	That's a fair warning. Sidecar folders have nothing to do with kindles besides historical reasons. In the beginning KOReader was made for Kindles, so authors repurposed the sdr folders that Kindles use. Nowadays we use the same structure for all platforms. So yeah: you'll end with one .sdr subfolder for each book you open in KOReader (unless the book is opened from read only storage medium). If you want to remove all those folders and you keep all your books in /home/moonbase59/books you can type from the terminal: Code: find /home/moonbase59/books -name "*.sdr" -type d -exec rm -rv {} \; That aside I see no point in using KOReader in the desktop unless you're already using it in other platforms and want to keep the same reader in all of them. For most people the calibre reader or foliate will be better alternatives.