Anyone ever considered a kindle port of Calibre's reader?

MorningSong · 07-24-2012, 08:47 AM

Hi! I'm an owner of a recently-jailbroken Amazon Kindle3, and I was just wondering--there are a couple alternate reader programs out there available for the Kindle (Duokan, fbKindle and CoolReader 3, to my knowledge), that are all capable of reading a wider range of formats than Amazon by default.

But in my experience, none of these are nearly as nice or feature-rich as Calibre's built-in reader, especially for more exotic ePub features like embedded fonts and smallcaps (the latter being quite essential for Discworld books!)

I understand something like this wouldn't exactly be trivial, but has anyone ever looked at making the ebook-reader component of Calibre run on qtKindle?

HarryT · 07-25-2012, 12:29 PM

I seriously doubt that it could be done in the minuscule amount of RAM that the Kindle has.

07-24-2012, 08:47 AM	#1
MorningSong Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Amazon Kindle Keyboard	Anyone ever considered a kindle port of Calibre's reader? Hi! I'm an owner of a recently-jailbroken Amazon Kindle3, and I was just wondering--there are a couple alternate reader programs out there available for the Kindle (Duokan, fbKindle and CoolReader 3, to my knowledge), that are all capable of reading a wider range of formats than Amazon by default. But in my experience, none of these are nearly as nice or feature-rich as Calibre's built-in reader, especially for more exotic ePub features like embedded fonts and smallcaps (the latter being quite essential for Discworld books!) I understand something like this wouldn't exactly be trivial, but has anyone ever looked at making the ebook-reader component of Calibre run on qtKindle?

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07-25-2012, 12:29 PM	#2
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	I seriously doubt that it could be done in the minuscule amount of RAM that the Kindle has.

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