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Old 08-13-2025, 04:18 PM   #1
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Hi I have recently purchased the Kobo Libra Color, and it works well, however I cannot seem to annotate or do markups on the PDFs. Hoping to see if we can add support for the stylus or for annotation on PDFs and books
Thank you and am grateful for this community!
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Old 08-13-2025, 06:15 PM   #2
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KOReader is a reading application. It has no handwriting support, and nobody is interested in adding that support. See:

https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/2633

which is eight years old and still unaddressed.
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Hi I have recently purchased the Kobo Libra Color, and it works well, however I cannot seem to annotate or do markups on the PDFs. Hoping to see if we can add support for the stylus or for annotation on PDFs and books
Thank you and am grateful for this community!
You can upload pdf via https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle to convert them to a format that is annotatable.
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Old 08-14-2025, 09:36 AM   #4
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You can upload pdf via https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle to convert them to a format that is annotatable.
Only for certain kindles! It converts to fixed KFX, which is useless for KOReader, or Kobo or reMarkable, or Nebo (Android & iOS) and and only works for Kindles that natively have a stylus.

PDFs annotate as-is on the Sage and Elipsa. It adds a layer. But that is using Kobo SW, not KOReader. Regular PDFs can be annotated on anything except a Kindle, without conversion, if the HW & SW supports a stylus.
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You can upload pdf via https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle to convert them to a format that is annotatable.
How did you get get the format returned by Amazon working on a Kobo Libra Colour?
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KOReader is a reading application. It has no handwriting support, and nobody is interested in adding that support. See:

https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/2633

which is eight years old and still unaddressed.
That's a really big issue, without handwriting or notation functionality it can be really difficult to keep comments - typing them is just different as you cannot freely draw, and for adding / scribbling notes
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I see that there are developments in the earlier comment and found this plugin, it is not perfect and there's lots of work left to go:
https://github.com/prasy-loyola/notes.koplugin
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