Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)

[zyxw]

Originally Posted by gummihuhn

I assume the "same problem" ...

Hi gummihuhn,
it was your (recent) problem with OPDS servers.
My problem (SD mount R/W) was solved.

Thank you, anyway.


Regarding to the problem with wikipedia I use another "solution" without wifi:
StarDict wikipedia Dump (3GB without images).

[ectoplasm]

I've made several changes to koreader LUA files to suit my preferences (skipping "do you want to..." prompts mostly).

One thing I haven't figured out yet: Is there any way to force koreader to flush/save bookmarks either when I make them, or on suspend? Sometimes (rarely) koreader crashes, and I lose all bookmarks unless I have fully exited koreader before the crash (which I now do from time to time to force a full save).

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by ectoplasm

I've made several changes to koreader LUA files to suit my preferences (skipping "do you want to..." prompts mostly).

One thing I haven't figured out yet: Is there any way to force koreader to flush/save bookmarks either when I make them, or on suspend? Sometimes (rarely) koreader crashes, and I lose all bookmarks unless I have fully exited koreader before the crash (which I now do from time to time to force a full save).

Not exactly what you want but did you notice this.

I always thought that suspend did update the book's history file.

Luck;
Ken

[pickyaxe]

Any way to disable highlighting by default? The files I use Koreader for are scanned PDFs so in my use case, highlighting is just a nuisance.

[ectoplasm]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

Not exactly what you want but did you notice this.

I always thought that suspend did update the book's history file.

I did, but I don't think the app has any influence on Koreader bookmarks. One thing I have noticed, is cold booting to KSM is surprisingly quick. So doing a full power off/on is slower than suspend/resume in Koreader, but not by a whole lot. So I'll do that for now until I figure out the right Lua recipe.

I just lost my reading position today, and it's not worth the risk, even if it happens 1 out of 10 times.

[gummihuhn]

Originally Posted by zyxw

Hi gummihuhn,
it was your (recent) problem with OPDS servers.
My problem (SD mount R/W) was solved.

Thank you, anyway.

I'm glad you got it solved.

Originally Posted by zyxw

Regarding to the problem with wikipedia I use another "solution" without wifi:
StarDict wikipedia Dump (3GB without images).

That's a good solution. I may try that so that I don't need to keep WiFi on.

[ectoplasm]

Originally Posted by zyxw

Regarding to the problem with wikipedia I use another "solution" without wifi:
StarDict wikipedia Dump (3GB without images).

Is this hosted somewhere? If so, care to share a link?

[ectoplasm]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

...
I always thought that suspend did update the book's history file.

I dug into this a bit more. A more efficient workaround is to switch from the book to the Koreader FileManager. Doing this flushes highlights/bookmarks, which I can confirm via FTP. Suspend works from FileManager, so this is a faster workaround than a full shutdown (there are more taps though).

I did verify: 1) Add a highlight 2) Suspend 3) Resume 4) Activate Wifi from Koreader (so I can FTP) 5) Bookmark/highlight not saved to disk at this stage

[zyxw]

Originally Posted by ectoplasm

Is this hosted somewhere? If so, care to share a link?

My (pretty old, 2008) german wikipedia file was originally a babylon (.bgl) file.

Here I found a c++-Code for downloading wikipedia-dumps and converting it to StarDict-Format:
https://code.google.com/p/stardict-3...542eaec4d4a681
(If the link doesn't work, search for "downloadwiki.cpp" in https://code.google.com/p/stardict-3/ Project.)

I didn't try it, I (only ;-) have windows, not linux.

[ectoplasm]

Originally Posted by ectoplasm

...Sometimes (rarely) koreader crashes, and I lose all bookmarks unless I have fully exited koreader before the crash (which I now do from time to time to force a full save).

Update to this: I think it was crashing on suspend, and would exit to KSM. By chance, I happened to disable "use this book's cover as a screensaver". Seeing the cover is nice I guess, but it's a lot faster to suspend without this feature, and I haven't had a crash since disabling it.

[roger64]

Hi

Setting defaults

I have set up a file named defaults.persistent.lua which keeps some of my settings. However, when I open a book, I still have to
- adjust the line-height to a certain value (out of three)
- adjust the margin to a certain value (out of three)
- hyphen language to a language
- font family to a font
- font-weight: darker

Where must I write these above settings so that, when opening a book, Koreader could use them? If I remember properly there was a cr3.ini file that I find no more. I use the latest nightly.

Edit: To say it otherwise, I know we can select some settings with a long press. I would like to know on which file these settings are written.

[Yaretzki]

Hi,
I'm very new to koreader and from the beginning I have some issues with it.

I've found a lot of useful guidelines here and I hope I can find with your help solutions.

All my books are epubs and I used to convert them into mobi for kindle pw.
Now I have kobo glo hd and uploaded some of my ePub books. In nickel books look fine , using nickels features I'm able to adjust all I need for my readings.
Due to some reasons I prefer koreader and here are my problems:
1. I would like to keep book embedded style and be able to change font. But I found it is not possible to change font.
2. So I switched off book embedded style in order to change fonts.
3. After that I have problem with my paragraphs style. In my books after every paragraph there is empty line (added while converting in calibre). After switching off book style these empty lines are removed, headers/chapters are not on central position, style is removed

How to force koreader to keep style and be able to change fonts?
Or
How use book style when embedded style option is switched off?

I see there option to change render style and possibility to select from listed. I looked at all these files ePub.css or cr3.css but nothing works for me.
I found some information at post #2352 here but still with no success.
All I want (at the moment) is just to change font, (but for it I have to switch off book style, and this removes empty lines after paragraph) so I want them still visible... Like rest of book style... Somehow...

Thanks in advance for any help and support!
Y.

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by Yaretzki

Hi,
I'm very new to koreader and from the beginning I have some issues with it.

I've found a lot of useful guidelines here and I hope I can find with your help solutions.

All my books are epubs and I used to convert them into mobi for kindle pw.
Now I have kobo glo hd and uploaded some of my ePub books. In nickel books look fine , using nickels features I'm able to adjust all I need for my readings.
Due to some reasons I prefer koreader and here are my problems:
1. I would like to keep book embedded style and be able to change font. But I found it is not possible to change font.
2. So I switched off book embedded style in order to change fonts.
3. After that I have problem with my paragraphs style. In my books after every paragraph there is empty line (added while converting in calibre). After switching off book style these empty lines are removed, headers/chapters are not on central position, style is removed

How to force koreader to keep style and be able to change fonts?
Or
How use book style when embedded style option is switched off?

I see there option to change render style and possibility to select from listed. I looked at all these files ePub.css or cr3.css but nothing works for me.
I found some information at post #2352 here but still with no success.
All I want (at the moment) is just to change font, (but for it I have to switch off book style, and this removes empty lines after paragraph) so I want them still visible... Like rest of book style... Somehow...

Thanks in advance for any help and support!
Y.

Actually, for "1." you should be able to change the font used, even with the embedded style on. The "styles" are "cascading" meaning that later ones normally take precedence over older ones. So you can change to a new font with the Koreader settings, in most cases. The CSS does allow for declaring an exception to this rule, by tagging the setting "!important". If that epub has the font tagged that way it would prevent it from being changed later.

I often change the Font in books with embedded styles.

You could try using the "clear all external styles" then the epub.css. Or if you really want to keep the current css, you could edit it to remove the "!important" tag and save the resulting .css file, with a new name, in the folder the other ones are kept in. (I don't remember where exactly, off hand.)

Luck;
Ken

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by roger64

Hi

Setting defaults

I have set up a file named defaults.persistent.lua which keeps some of my settings. However, when I open a book, I still have to
- adjust the line-height to a certain value (out of three)
- adjust the margin to a certain value (out of three)
- hyphen language to a language
- font family to a font
- font-weight: darker

Where must I write these above settings so that, when opening a book, Koreader could use them? If I remember properly there was a cr3.ini file that I find no more. I use the latest nightly.

Edit: To say it otherwise, I know we can select some settings with a long press. I would like to know on which file these settings are written.

If you open defaults.lua using Notepad++, you will see green notes that explain most of the settings, also some instructions on copying the settings into "defaults.persistent.lua"

Yes the long press is your friend for setting things as default.

Luck;
Ken

[Yaretzki]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

Actually, for "1." you should be able to change the font used, even with the embedded style on. The "styles" are "cascading" meaning that later ones normally take precedence over older ones. So you can change to a new font with the Koreader settings, in most cases. The CSS does allow for declaring an exception to this rule, by tagging the setting "!important". If that epub has the font tagged that way it would prevent it from being changed later.

I often change the Font in books with embedded styles.

You could try using the "clear all external styles" then the epub.css. Or if you really want to keep the current css, you could edit it to remove the "!important" tag and save the resulting .css file, with a new name, in the folder the other ones are kept in. (I don't remember where exactly, off hand.)

Luck;
Ken

Thanks Ken,

I did as you described and it works! Thank you!
In meantime I found "clearing" embedded font in calibre during covering also does the trick: even with book style "on" in koreader I can change fonts for such books.
Maybe converting books in calbre as described above makes the same what you wrote.

Anyway it works! Thank you!
Y.