[bazookajoe]

Totally out of left field here, I got these 8BitDo Zero 2 mini-gamepads for niece and nephew and decided to get one for myself for in my bag for short bursts of retro gaming while waiting at doctors or a bit of travelling or whatever. When you feel the Alex Kidd need coming on you can't stop it. Well I can't, even if it hurts my fingers and wrists.

Anyway, turns out doubles as a nice sized remote. Just the right size in hand, quite light, D-Pad works with Moon+, Kindle App, Google Play Books, ReadEra and NeoReader (Onyx) without any real configuration (different D-Pad responses across the apps, you might have to turn volume on in Kindle tho or map Moon+). Might be able to configure it on KOReader but that has the UX of a horses behind I'm not even bothering trying to use it.

Even works on Libby! Turns out the X button turns pages. There's no turn page back feature for Libby sadly (though A button does function as a "back" feature i.e. exiting something) it only turns forward but hey, if you're a retro gamer and you want to tinker for a bit while travelling or waiting about on your phone or whatevs for short bursts (too small for a long session but half an hour messing around is OK) you get a book remote thrown in for $AU27.

It is quite laggy on the Onyx but I mainly use it on my Android devices anyway.

Edit: should add that's in Analog pairing mode (how I have my D-Pad set it just works better across all game console emulators if you wanna throw PSX into the mix) dunno if it works as widely in default D-Pad mode but Analog stick mode: Left + Select. Regular D-Pad: Up + Select.