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The linked thread reminded me of my own experiences with KOReader that I had posted about: it is a chore to use for very large books. They take an excessive amount of time to open, and any change to the rendering -- font size, margins, line spacing, etc. -- also take an excessive amount of time. So if you happen to open a very large book, and it is not formatted to your liking, you could easily spend 30 minutes or more making changes and waiting for the renderer to update. I don't remember if there is a way to simply tweak one book to your satisfaction and have those settings applied globally so that every subsequent book looks exactly the same.
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It is, and once I discovered how to set those default overrides to my preferences, the amount of time I spend fiddling with the controls fell away to nearly nothing
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I also like the profiles, where you can customize presets for nearly everything. Depending on the book I use different profiles for fast changing of fonts, margins, line-height, status bar etc. This is similar to Kindle's Themes. |
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Hmmm... sounds like there's more to it than just setting up one book and then tapping "Apply To All".
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Not really. when making a document setting change - line spacing, font, margin, etc - a long press brings up the option to "set as default". Hardly rocket science
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It's the having to long press on a setting to get the "set as default" button that is not obvious. Most people wouldn't think to do that.
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KOreader was essential for me on my "old" Pocketbook, because the PB's formatting options were rather limited. On Kobo I have most of what I want to fine-tune there already in the interface, except for some patches I apply (such as reducing word spacing for KePubs). And I now read more books with DRM, which KOreader can't handle anyway.
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I only have a tiny number of technical PDFs in Calibre, so the bulk of Technical PDFs are not on Mars / Kobo, only on the Tablet with the 256 G SD card, so they are in separate folders for Xodo than Calibre uses. |
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1) You can organize your books via normal system folders rather than having to mess around with calibre collections. 2) reverse note mode. Though I think is also available in Nickel (Kobo UI), but may need a patch. So, maybe not that much of an advantage. |
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