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

[pefilix]

hello

i am near to buying kobo glo hd but i heard reading pdf files very hard on this devices . i find koreader for improved pdf reading. is big pdf files (35mb) readable with koreader? i want to hear koreader users pdf experince.

thank you

[Alan_S]

Yes, koreader can read big pdf files. And has many useful options for reading them.

[The_Immortal]

Guys, could you tell me please with the following questions:

1. Does KORedear support footnotes? I click on a reference ([1]) in epub-document expecting to get some redirect but nothing happens...
Or maybe is there a way to see reference info at the bottom?

2. Is there a way to edit the step of adjusting highlight by swiping two fingers? It takes too long to set highlight from 1 to 100 value In other words I need to increase swipe sensitivity.

3. Is there a way to change adjusting highlight from swiping two fingers to one finger (as it made in nickel) ?

4. How to get notes?

5. Does KOReader supprot txt-files? I'm trying to open txt (3 bytes) but got the error:

ERROR: Wrong document size
Cannot open document

What's the problem?

6. Does Wikipedia search work? I select some word, tap on Wikipedia but hothing happens then...

Thank you!

[WolfBack]

I'm kinda lost with some setting in uimanager.lua:

local sec = G_reader_settings:readSetting("auto_suspend_timeout_seconds")
    if sec then
        self.auto_suspend_sec = sec
    else
        -- default setting is 60 minutes
        self.auto_suspend_sec = 60 * 60

I'm willing to change the suspend time to 20 minutes.
If I choose: self.auto_suspend_sec = 20 * 20 I end with a suspend time of 6 minutes...
How the algorithm works? In seconds or minutes?
This time I use 30 * 30 and the Koreader suspended in 15 minutes...
Strange...

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by The_Immortal

Guys, could you tell me please with the following questions:

1. Does KORedear support footnotes? I click on a reference ([1]) in epub-document expecting to get some redirect but nothing happens...
Or maybe is there a way to see reference info at the bottom?

2. Is there a way to edit the step of adjusting highlight by swiping two fingers? It takes too long to set highlight from 1 to 100 value In other words I need to increase swipe sensitivity.

3. Is there a way to change adjusting highlight from swiping two fingers to one finger (as it made in nickel) ?

4. How to get notes?

5. Does KOReader supprot txt-files? I'm trying to open txt (3 bytes) but got the error:

What's the problem?

6. Does Wikipedia search work? I select some word, tap on Wikipedia but hothing happens then...

Thank you!

1. Assuming that the "Follow links" menu item "Disable" is not selected, then you should be able to go to where the footnote is in the book. If disable were selected then that menu item would become "Enable" and you could select that.

2. I think you mean "Frontlight" not highlight. The gesture to adjust the frontlight should only be available on the 6" Aura (although it is also reported working on the Glo HD)

3. See 2.

4. A true Notetaking feature has been often requested at the project on Github. So far there is only highlights and saving them to the Evernote plugin.

5. Yes .txt files are supported. I don't think there would be a valid 3 byte file.

6. The Wikipedia search requires the WiFi to be on, and WiFi access.

Luck;
Ken

[NiLuJe]

@WolfBack: As the name of the variable implies, seconds . Hence 60 times 60(s) (i.e., 60 times 1 minute -> 60 minutes).

TL;DR: You want 20 * 60 .

[The_Immortal]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

1. Assuming that the "Follow links" menu item "Disable" is not selected, then you should be able to go to where the footnote is in the book. If disable were selected then that menu item would become "Enable" and you could select that.

Yup, my "Follow links" was disabled so that was the problem!

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

2. I think you mean "Frontlight" not highlight. The gesture to adjust the frontlight should only be available on the 6" Aura (although it is also reported working on the Glo HD)

Yes, I mean Frontlight and Glo HD support it. But there should be a way to change sensitivity of adjusting Frontlight. I guess the right option for this is FRONTLIGHT_SENSIVITY_DECRESE = 2 but if I set FRONTLIGHT_SENSIVITY_DECRESE = 1 and then reboot the device I still see the default value FRONTLIGHT_SENSIVITY_DECRESE = 2. But I'm not sure is this right option to change Frontlight sensitivity... Maybe you know?
Someone has made the mod but I don't know how to test it on my Glo HD as it made for H2O...

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

3. See 2.

As you know the gesture to change the intensity of the Frontlight in Nickel is swiping up or down by one finger on the left side of the screen. In KoReader we have to use two fingers. So the question is how to set one finger (for Frontlight adjusting) in KoReader?

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

4. A true Notetaking feature has been often requested at the project on Github. So far there is only highlights and saving them to the Evernote plugin.

Got it, thanks!

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

5. Yes .txt files are supported. I don't think there would be a valid 3 byte file.

Yup, it seems 3 bytes is too small for KR.

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

6. The Wikipedia search requires the WiFi to be on, and WiFi access.

The Wikipedia search doesn't work inspite of my WiFi is enabled (I succesfully send highlights from KR to Evernote). As I said before I select a word, tap on Wikipedia and got that No wiki page was found although I know that there is a page on Wiki with the looking word. But I'm looking for Russian word - maybe KoReader works with English? But I guess there must be language-based search (with respect to current document) otherwise you have to edit wiki_server manually in wikipedia.lua

P.S. I use the latest KoReader nightly build (koreader-kobo-arm-linux-gnueabihf-v2015.11-431-gc0846ee.zip).

[Ken Maltby]

Yes, you need to use the proper wiki server. There was an issue over at Github that was resolved by making some accommodation so that the server was automatically selected, based on the system language set or maybe it was the language of the book. Perhaps that is not working as you would like and you need "to edit wiki_server manually in wikipedia.lua", as you say.

The frontlight mod might very well work on other Kobo devices, as well.

Luck;
Ken

P.S.; be sure and use an editor like Notepad++ that can do Linux type line endings.

[The_Immortal]

Ken Maltby,

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

There was an issue over at Github that was resolved by making some accommodation so that the server was automatically selected, based on the system language set or maybe it was the language of the book

Could you please give me the link on that discussion? I can't find it.

Thank you!

P.S. I found this one but it seems there is no solution here.

[WolfBack]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@WolfBack: As the name of the variable implies, seconds . Hence 60 times 60(s) (i.e., 60 times 1 minute -> 60 minutes).

TL;DR: You want 20 * 60 .

You're right, NiLuJe!
That's make sense!
Thank you!

[The_Immortal]

I'm wondering is there a way to setup one default font for all books? There must be an option for it.
And secondly - sometimes KOReader cannot override font in EPUB. SO there must be also optin that will allow to turn off internal font (like it madein CoolReader).

[WolfBack]

When I read a book, usually I keep the progress bar and the time at the bottom of the page. Occasionally I change the info at the right of the bar with the pages left on chapter and battery level.
Every time when the Koreader restarted (or close and open the same book) the bottom line are blank and needs several taps to show the progress bar and time...
Is there any trick or any code editing to keep the progress bar and time shown as default on every time the book is opening?

Thanks!

[WolfBack]

Is something wrong with the statistics plugin of the latest nighty builds?
I read and complete some books, but the Statistics / All Books always shows the stats of the currently opened book.
After some days of searching I came up with this: On latest nighties the selected option and stats of every book is stored in the current book folder as: xxxxxxx.epub.lua and thats all... If I want to check the stats on a specific book it must to be opened and then select Statistics / All Books.
On the stable Koreader version the stats info stored in the statistics folder as: xxxxxxx.stat file and always shows the stats info of all books at statistics / Total.
My first thought is to use the statistics plugin of the stable version to the latest nighty. But, in that case I loose all my tracks and stats of my reading books. Except if I'll be able to convert the epub.lua file to .stat. (I don't know how to do that, of course...)
There's anybody have a solution for that matter?
Thnks!

(I also opened a issue with no. #2170:
https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/2170 )

[Heiderose]

Originally Posted by WolfBack

When I read a book, usually I keep the progress bar and the time at the bottom of the page. Occasionally I change the info at the right of the bar with the pages left on chapter and battery level.
Every time when the Koreader restarted (or close and open the same book) the bottom line are blank and needs several taps to show the progress bar and time...
Is there any trick or any code editing to keep the progress bar and time shown as default on every time the book is opening?

Thanks!

This relates to my problem as well after I had to do a reset (bad USB connection cable destroyed my database...) and reinstalled from the scratch I'm missing the progress bar in Defaults is "DCREREADER_PROGRESS_BAR=1" should I amend this in how?
Thanks for any help

[Alan_S]

Just opened bug report on github: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/2172

It looks like a bug. Hopefully, it will be solved soon.

EDIT: noticed that for some books status bar is on from the start. And for others it isn't. Strange.