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Originally Posted by Apollyon202
As for library management I have Calibre to do that. It's faster and more convenient. Previously I was also prefering the stock reader as it's a bit cleaner way to get on my reads, but I gave KOReader another try and it worked. It cost around an hour to figure out how it works and set it up but was worth it. Now I prefer this over Nickel, as I have way more options to customize the reading screen, page turning is faster, I can leave my books in epub and like the utilites it has (reading and battery statistics etc).
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It's not that KOReader was hard to figure out - I did that quickly enough. As I said, KOReader has two fundamental flaws that make it pretty much unusable for me. Yes, I also use Calibre, but I like to keep lots of books on my ereaders and a file explorer just isn't enough for me. The other drawback - slowness with large books - is even more unforgivable. I was not able to even search for a word in some of them with KOReader and there was one KOReader didn't open at all (a whopping 14-volume omnibus, yes, but the stock reader had no issues with it).
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About privacy, it's not just about to prevent who sees what I read and who doesn't, it's the principle.
One can do this with everything else, there are lots of alternatives and most of time it is even better and more convenient than what Big Tech can offer.
If you give up on your privacy and principles, you are welcoming 1984 with open arms.
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Thank you, but no. If I lived for hundreds of years, maybe; as it is, life is just too short. I don't want to spend half of my free time searching for those alternatives every time I want to use a program and it only runs on Windows or MacOS. Which is often. And sometimes there is no other alternative at all. I'm not going to make my life complicated just for principles, but then I have very few principles overall and most of the time I don't follow even those I do have. For me, convenience almost always trumps principles. YMMV.