Cool Reader on Android

[just_me]

Hi,

There's a feature that lots of people are asking for on the Nook Simple Touch: to set the current book's cover as a screensaver. I saw workarounds on the forums but all require manual work.

However, I was able to change the Cool Reader 3 sources to automatically do it in a very simple way (more a hack than a real feature implementation) and I thought maybe it can be properly implemented in the official release. And it seems to work ...

The approach I took was to create a directory (/media/screensavers/currentbook) and, whenever PageViewAnimation.findCoverPage is called, if a cover is found, check if a file with the same name as <book_title>.jpg is present in that directory (not to create same file each time the book is loaded, only when changing books). If not present, delete all the files in the directory and create a file with name as <book_title>.jpg and write to it the cover page bytes. It works with all the books I tried but I am not sure if it works for covers that are not jpg (if it ignores the extension and finds the right type or not).

If I want to use this feature, I just select "currentbook" as a screensaver from the Nook settings.

What do you think? Anyone interested?

[Dopedangel]

Originally Posted by just_me

Hi,

There's a feature that lots of people are asking for on the Nook Simple Touch: to set the current book's cover as a screensaver. I saw workarounds on the forums but all require manual work.

However, I was able to change the Cool Reader 3 sources to automatically do it in a very simple way (more a hack than a real feature implementation) and I thought maybe it can be properly implemented in the official release. And it seems to work ...

The approach I took was to create a directory (/media/screensavers/currentbook) and, whenever PageViewAnimation.findCoverPage is called, if a cover is found, check if a file with the same name as <book_title>.jpg is present in that directory (not to create same file each time the book is loaded, only when changing books). If not present, delete all the files in the directory and create a file with name as <book_title>.jpg and write to it the cover page bytes. It works with all the books I tried but I am not sure if it works for covers that are not jpg (if it ignores the extension and finds the right type or not).

If I want to use this feature, I just select "currentbook" as a screensaver from the Nook settings.

What do you think? Anyone interested?

Can you post your hack on the coolreader git or the russian forum as buggins is not that active on this forum I would love to have this for my nook touch.

[just_me]

I'm afraid you have to give me more details. My only involvement with Cool Reader is about 4 days old (when I started to look for some alternate reader for my rooted Nook, then I understood it is open source and I remembered I wanted this feature, found out how to get the sources and that's pretty much it). I did not use git before (so I do not know how to post the hack on git - I remember seeing "read-only" next to the link I used to get the sources) and I do not know what other forums are there for cool reader (I found the link to this forum on CR page and I tried here). And I do not know russian.

[wfirst]

Hi,

When I read EPUB file, I see ??? instead of chinese text，This problem only appears in the

title, (e.g. h1, h2, h3).

Please fix it, thanks!

[Dopedangel]

The forum is on http://www.the-ebook.org/ their are 2 threads where buggins is active. One is the Lbook coolreader which is the main thread
http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7509

The 2nd is this thread where some guys started modifying coolreader for Nook before many of the modifications got into the main app
http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewt...5670&start=220

you can post in english I usually use chrome auto translate so am able to understand a bit.

[sangahm]

I really, really like CR and the amount of functionality it provides.

However lately I've looked at Mantano and really like the look of the screen. The way the fonts (default) are laid out and how clear the fonts look.

I just can't make CR look that clear, no matter what fonts I've tried. The best I can do is Gentium Plus but it looks rather squished and somewhat grainy when compared to M, even with antialiasing. It's not a big difference, but slight enough to make it noticeable and make me want better. I like font size of 32, so maybe the bigger fonts are not as good.

Any recommendations to get a similar reading quality and be able to stay with CR?

[just_me]

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

The forum is on http://www.the-ebook.org/ their are 2 threads where buggins is active. One is the Lbook coolreader which is the main thread
http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7509

The 2nd is this thread where some guys started modifying coolreader for Nook before many of the modifications got into the main app
http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewt...5670&start=220

you can post in english I usually use chrome auto translate so am able to understand a bit.

Good news. I talked to him and he wants to add it.

[Jabby]

I don't know how to report a bug so I'll mention it here in hopes that @buggins picks it up.

If you select right/left margins of 40 it reverts to 4.

Regards - John

[Dopedangel]

Originally Posted by Jabby

I don't know how to report a bug so I'll mention it here in hopes that @buggins picks it up.

If you select right/left margins of 40 it reverts to 4.

Regards - John

which version are you using looking at the git log that bug has been fixed but has not been pushed to the market
http://crengine.git.sourceforge.net/...crengine;a=log

try the latest version from here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cren...r3/cr3-3.0.51/

[Jabby]

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

which version are you using looking at the git log that bug has been fixed but has not been pushed to the market.

I was running cr3.0.51.10 and installed cr3.0.51.16 and now all is well. Thanks!

Regards - John

[Jabby]

cr3.0.51.16/17 85% interline spacing reverts to 100%.

Regards- John

P.S. Thanks for all the good work. I haven't used anything but Cool Reader in a couple of months.

[sangahm]

Originally Posted by sangahm

So is it either chapter markings or whole book progress? I don't seem to see any chapter markings. I'll try when I get back to my nook with both options.

The question about css support, is can you control margins with the CSS? I know you can use css, I just don't know what it can control (I'm no css person but will learn if that's what it takes).

Returning back to this question, as it was never cleared up: what exactly does "Chapter bound marks" do under the option for "Title bar options"?

I have turned it on and off with no visual change that I can see.

Is it supposed to put some type of mark on the progress line under the title bar? How does that differ from the progress line that shows the place in the book?

I would expect that there is some visual clue that I'm moving from the beginning of the chapter to nearing the end of the chapter, but I cannot see any difference in the title bar other than page indicator relative to the whole book.

The wiki and manual make no mention of this feature, and I've not seen it discussed anywhere on these forums or other ones I've googled.

Any help?

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by sangahm

Returning back to this question, as it was never cleared up: what exactly does "Chapter bound marks" do under the option for "Title bar options"?

I have turned it on and off with no visual change that I can see.

I have my Title Bar at the top of the page, and I see vertical separation lines on the progress bar at each chapter boundary when "Chapter bound marks" is enabled. Since I like to finish a reading session at a chapter boundary that feature makes it easy to see when I am coming up on a chapter boundary.

FWIW, I am reading books in FB2 format, but I guess that this feature would work the same way with any CoolReader supported book format that has properly formatted chapters. I have seen a few books where the chapter headers were not properly done, and in those cases the chapters were not detected by CoolReader, and so would not show up on the status bar.

[sangahm]

Originally Posted by Dave_S

I have my Title Bar at the top of the page, and I see vertical separation lines on the progress bar at each chapter boundary when "Chapter bound marks" is enabled. Since I like to finish a reading session at a chapter boundary that feature makes it easy to see when I am coming up on a chapter boundary.

FWIW, I am reading books in FB2 format, but I guess that this feature would work the same way with any CoolReader supported book format that has properly formatted chapters. I have seen a few books where the chapter headers were not properly done, and in those cases the chapters were not detected by CoolReader, and so would not show up on the status bar.

I will assume that the book I'm now reading is not properly chapter formatted as I cannot see anything resembling marks on the progress bar.

I'll try a few other books and see if it works for them.

[Eskarina]

Originally Posted by Dave_S

I have my Title Bar at the top of the page, and I see vertical separation lines on the progress bar at each chapter boundary when "Chapter bound marks" is enabled...

FWIW, I am reading books in FB2 format, but I guess that this feature would work the same way with any CoolReader supported book format that has properly formatted chapters.

I read epub books and have never seen vertical separation lines like you describe. Testing your theory, I used calibre to convert one of my epub books to fb and the chapter bound marks actually showed up. Interesting.