KOReader and KOA questions

[godlike]

Hi!
Going to move out from my current Kindle 3 with CoolReader to something newer.
As I'm fan of Kindle devices, want to investigate KOReader's behavior on Kindle Oasis device.
So, I have few questions:
1) Is Kindle Oasis supported in KOReader?
1a) Are hardware keys of KOA supported?
1b) Is backlight(turning on/off/level adjusting) supported?
1c) Is accelerometer supported?
2) Do the same settings as in CoolReader exist in KOReader also?
2a) Could I remove fields around text up to zero?
2b) Is it possible to use my own OTF font?
2c) Is it possible to fully remove all elements but text from screen(progress bar, buttons, etc)
2d) Are there settings of font smoothing/hinting/gamma correction?
2e) Are there settings of space width, line spacing?

Thank you in advance for your help!

[Alan_S]

I'm not sure if it works with Kindle Oasis, but I see there are version for two Kindle types. I guess it supports Oasis. Some things I know for sure how it works with Kobo and guess that works in almost same way for Kindles:

1b) There's two way to control light. One through settings and other through gesture, like with nickel, but it is more advanced than in nickel.

2) It may depend on what settings you're interested, but most important settings are there. I have installed koreader and CR, but use actively only koreader.

2b) For fonts, I use custom TTF fonts, not sure about OTF.

2c) Yes

[trekk]

Originally Posted by godlike

Hi!
Going to move out from my current Kindle 3 with CoolReader to something newer.
As I'm fan of Kindle devices, want to investigate KOReader's behavior on Kindle Oasis device.
So, I have few questions:
1) Is Kindle Oasis supported in KOReader?
1a) Are hardware keys of KOA supported?
1b) Is backlight(turning on/off/level adjusting) supported?
1c) Is accelerometer supported?
2) Do the same settings as in CoolReader exist in KOReader also?
2a) Could I remove fields around text up to zero?
2b) Is it possible to use my own OTF font?
2c) Is it possible to fully remove all elements but text from screen(progress bar, buttons, etc)
2d) Are there settings of font smoothing/hinting/gamma correction?
2e) Are there settings of space width, line spacing?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Hi godlike,

• the Kindle Oasis is well supported, this includes the hardware buttons.
• the lights can be adjusted via menu or via swiping up and down with two fingers
• accelerometer is supported
• KoReader has it's own settings as it's a different program Configuration of line-spacing and margins is IMHO much easier in CoolReader. But you can predefine 3 settings for line-spacing and margins in KoReader (small, medium, large) and change them with a tip of your finger. You can edit these presets in the defaults.lua or with the advanced settings menu
• you can read with nearly zero margins
• gui elements can be hidden
• you can predefine 3 gamma values and change them comfortably via menu
• some values are only accessable through editing the defaults.lua, e.g. hinting

[Alan_S]

Originally Posted by trekk

the lights can be adjusted via menu or via swiping up and down with two fingers

You also can toggle lights by tapping predefined zone (by default it's lowest left zone) and you also have information about light level (off-1-100), which is visible in lower status bar.

But, to get light toggling working, at the moment you need to play a bit with configuration files, as I described here: https://github.com/koreader/koreader...ment-261928796

In this comment I set light toggling to lowest left position, but it can be placed whenever you want and can be made as big or small as you like. It isn't that intuitive, but it can be done.

All in all, this is much superior way of light controlling to anything I saw.

[godlike]

Thank you guys for such detailed answers, going to buy Kindle Oasis.
Editing of config files does not scare me, it's even better to use them as absolutely predictable way of storing of config values.