PocketBook-KOReader: a document reader for PDF, DJVU, EPUB, FB2, CBZ, ... (AGPLv3)

[omazumba]

Hi there,
I'm a recent KoReader user on Pocketbook Touch HD 3 and would very much appreciate some help with a couple of questions.
How can I see/browse my whole book collection like in stock firmware? I can only browse through the books of each author.
On a follow up question, is there any way to display the progress on each book?

Thank you very much.
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[pazos]

Originally Posted by omazumba

Hi there,
I'm a recent KoReader user on Pocketbook Touch HD 3 and would very much appreciate some help with a couple of questions.
How can I see/browse my whole book collection like in stock firmware? I can only browse through the books of each author.
On a follow up question, is there any way to display the progress on each book?

You can't inside the program. What you see is a file manager with the directories that exist there.

But you can associate common filetypes to KOReader in settings -> device -> file associations. Then you use the Pocketbook library to choose your books and they will open in KO directly.

Which leds me to the other question: the progress of each book will be updated within the file manager but not on your Pocketbook library.

[hius07]

https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...tbook-ereaders

[Frenzie]

In a way it's a bit of a pity that they published that about a week too early. As you can see a few posts up, the freezing part (due to auto-standby on the platform) should be fixed in the upcoming release. Thanks for the link; I'd have missed it otherwise.

[Lykke]

Perhaps it's just me, but I find that I prefer the way the stock reader antialiases the fonts, to the level that they for me are easier to read. And the fonts also seem slightly taller in the stock app. It might be my TL3, or it might be my eyes, I don't know.

[NiLuJe]

@Lykke: Play with the font hinting toggle in the bottom menu.

I seem to remember that we default to auto-hinting for... reasons. That may not be the case of the stock reader.
No hinting should be perfectly fine on high DPI eInk.
Native hinting may be preferable on low DPI eInk (or at tiny font sizes, provided they're hinted properly).

Regardless, we're using modern defaults (LIGHT render, i.e., no hinting on the x axis), so, differences are to be expected.

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Possibly relevant: https://github.com/koreader/koreader-base/pull/1171

(Because the refresh type may affect perceived contrast).

[omazumba]

I installed two latest nightlies and none worked from library although I associated files extensions with KoReader. Also, dictionary download wasn't working.
The install process is pretty straight forward, so I'm not detecting if I did anything wrong. After those nightlies working for any of you?

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[pazos]

Originally Posted by omazumba

I installed two latest nightlies and none worked from library although I associated files extensions with KoReader. Also, dictionary download wasn't working.
The install process is pretty straight forward, so I'm not detecting if I did anything wrong. After those nightlies working for any of you?

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I'm not sure if you need to reboot your Pocketbook for the changes to apply. Just please make these changes:

Connect the reader to your computer and remove system/config/extensions.cfg
Start KOReader, go to settings -> device -> file extensions. Select All.
Now reboot (from KOReader or poweroff -> boot in PB).

Any files you open now should be opened in KOReader, but you can open them in other readers by long pressing a book.

[omazumba]

Originally Posted by pazos

I'm not sure if you need to reboot your Pocketbook for the changes to apply. Just please make these changes:



Connect the reader to your computer and remove system/config/extensions.cfg

Start KOReader, go to settings -> device -> file extensions. Select All.

Now reboot (from KOReader or poweroff -> boot in PB).



Any files you open now should be opened in KOReader, but you can open them in other readers by long pressing a book.

Thank you for your help. I'll try that. But for debugging purposes, I've long pressed the book I wanted to read, chose "KoReader" and nothing happened. Just a kind of ampersand appeared.

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[cellaris]

By the way @pazos, since v2020-08-1-40 I have noticed that the screen blinks several times when a book is opened from the PocketBook home screen. And it only happens when the screen refresh is set to KOReader on every page step (or less than 5 page steps). It happens on both the PB Touch HD 3 and the Inkpad 3. In your previous test compilation this did not happen.

(This does not happen if you open the books from KOReader).

[pazos]

Originally Posted by omazumba

Thank you for your help. I'll try that. But for debugging purposes, I've long pressed the book I wanted to read, chose "KoReader" and nothing happened. Just a kind of ampersand appeared.

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Like a time clock? That's expected during a couple of seconds but the file should open after that. Are you sure you uncompressed both applications/ and system/ in the release zip?. It sounds like you're missing system/bin/koreader.app

[pazos]

Originally Posted by cellaris

By the way @pazos, since v2020-08-1-40 I have noticed that the screen blinks several times when a book is opened from the PocketBook home screen. And it only happens when the screen refresh is set to KOReader on every page step (or less than 5 page steps). It happens on both the PB Touch HD 3 and the Inkpad 3. In your previous test compilation this did not happen.

(This does not happen if you open the books from KOReader).

Kind of a weird issue. It seems that https://github.com/koreader/koreader...evice.lua#L107 gets promoted to a full screen update with these settings. Try to change 'partial' to 'full' and see if that fixes most of the "blinks". It should flash once.

BTW, the test build was based on a workaround. The code merged is much better and was contributed by ezdiy. Anyways I cannot spot differences on the code that can explain that behaviour (other than the trick above).

Also @Cellaris, you might want to help us trying the changes in https://github.com/koreader/koreader-base/pull/1171, since they are intended to improve ghosting and you might end ditching the screen refresh after each page.

[NiLuJe]

@pazos: Ah, yep, a partial like that will get accounted by the refresh rate algo.

[omazumba]

Originally Posted by pazos

Like a time clock? That's expected during a couple of seconds but the file should open after that. Are you sure you uncompressed both applications/ and system/ in the release zip?. It sounds like you're missing system/bin/koreader.app

I have KoReader in the apps folder and I can run it. It just doesn't open from library.

When I uncompress the zip file, I only merge the applications folder. The system folder isn't merged or copied to the device, right?

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[pazos]

Originally Posted by omazumba

I have KoReader in the apps folder and I can run it. It just doesn't open from library.

When I uncompress the zip file, I only merge the applications folder. The system folder isn't merged or copied to the device, right?

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That's exactly the error you're facing. You need to merge the system folder too. Please follow the instructions, thank you!

Also updated https://github.com/koreader/koreader...etBook-devices