View Single Post
Old 07-23-2022, 08:26 PM   #30
Tex2002ans
Wizard
Tex2002ans ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Tex2002ans ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Tex2002ans ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Tex2002ans ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Tex2002ans ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Tex2002ans ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Tex2002ans ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Tex2002ans ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Tex2002ans ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Tex2002ans ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Tex2002ans ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 2,306
Karma: 13057279
Join Date: Jul 2012
Device: Kobo Forma, Nook
Quote:
Originally Posted by Magnus View Post
In no particular order of preference, I find these attractive...
Thanks.

I'll definitely have to poke around some of PocketBook's settings and see if they have some of that.

In Moon+, I do remember really liking the Highlights+Notes menu.

(In PocketBook, they have a separate button for highlights/colors, and a separate button for notes.)

And didn't Moon+ have a really nice way to sort notes based on highlight color too?

I remember, when proofing, I was doing things like:
  • Pink = spelling error
  • Red = punctuation error
  • Yellow = Normal note

that saved me a lot of clicking/dragging/typing... since mobile UIs are definitely not design for super productivity (at least at my level).

I was then able to open up my phone + computer, then easily do corrections in the EPUB based on category.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
KOReader IMO is better.
I'll have to test it out again.

Jellby recommended it to me a few years ago, and he spoke very highly of it.

But when I tested it, it felt very clunky on the phone:
  • The UI mostly seemed to be designed to run as a Kindle/Kobo alternative.
    • So an ereader-first UI... not a mobile-first one.
  • One of the key things I use is pressing the Volume Up+Down buttons to change pages.
    • I remember this not working at the time, and it was extremely frustrating having to click on the screen to turn page.
    • (I LOVE physical buttons.)
  • And most importantly, it didn't have Text-to-Speech—which is one of my must-have features!

The in-line footnotes of KOReader is excellent though.

And they are always updating it every few months and adding new functionality too... maybe it got better on Android in the past few years.

(But I still love PocketBook.)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
Also I tried Moonreader and it seemed to ignore a lot of CSS.
Yes, that's my biggest problem with it.

They do not follow the EPUB standards, so things like Tables + SVG + MathML and so many other things are broken.

If you read lots of basic Fiction, it might be "okay"... but for Non-Fiction, it breaks too much core EPUB functionality for me.

And then there are too many complaints that book XYZ is broken, when in reality, it's their chosen READER that's broken!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Magnus View Post
The "free" version never showed me ads (maybe due to my network filters)
Ads? What's that?

Side Note: The past year, I finally installed a Pi-hole and began SUPER cracking down on ads network-wide.

You wouldn't believe how much garbage Android (and iOS) is still sending, even though I locked down my phone.

Now, anyone who connects onto my wifi gets the blocking benefits too. :P

Last edited by Tex2002ans; 07-23-2022 at 08:31 PM.
Tex2002ans is offline   Reply With Quote