There is a mode that will divide each page into Options to try to ease the process, starting with simply eliminating the Reader screens, so some accommodations must be made. Page-oriented format, and full pages tend not to render legibly on small Size setting the default size eliminates the process of adjusting it at theīeyond the usual EPUB, KOReader can handle PDF files (and a long Every book seems to come with its own wacky font One truly useful feature is that the default value for most parameters canīe set with a long tap. If one wants toĪdjust the bottom margin with a two-finger diagonal (bottom right to upper Most of these tweaks (and more) can be assigned toĪny of a large set of gestures recognized by the software. Style sheets used for rendering or do things like suppress blank pages at Somebody might have thought of to play with. KOReader lets one adjust just about anything that Almost any electronic-book reader allows the tweaking of the Options, not all of which are obvious without a bit of supplementaryĭescription. One place where KOReader clearly stands out is in its extensive customization That said, a reading of the manual does have its rewards. Reading books without having to work through the manual first. Tapping at the top yields information about theīook and a plethora of menu options. Tapping on the right edge moves forward one This interface will be familiar to users of otherīook-reading applications. This kind of screen in mind, and the interface works well on the Kobo reader. Well, for example the application needs to put up its control interfaces User interfaces for electronic-ink devices must be developed with that Rendering time for more reasonably sized books is not terrible, though. Neither FBReader nor the native Kobo reader exhibit thisīehavior. If one changes a parameter like the font size, the entire processīegins again, making tweaking such parameters a less than fully rewardingĮxperience. Asking it to read a large text book led toĪ long delay (for a "several minutes" value of "long") before the cover was KOReader, it seems, must go through a process of rendering the entire bookīefore it can present the first page. Hierarchy in the usual way tapping on a book will open it to the cover image. Way to just list all of the books on the device short of justĭumping them all into the root directory. List of top-level directories on the device there does not appear to be a The device to "read" the KOReader "book") yields a Kobo interface instead, it presents itself as if it were Least when this installation method is used, does not replace the existing Kobo meditates on the new software while presenting a blank screen.Įventually that phase passes, the device comes back to life. Then comes the long, sweaty-palms pause while the Installation is just a matter of mounting it as USB storage and unzipping aĬouple of files into it. The Kobo, as it turns out, is a relatively open device the Quickly from the Android application to installing KOReader on his Koboĭevice. Turn a useful device into electronic waste. Really know a piece of software until one has given it the opportunity to Remember the special adrenaline rush that comes with trying to installįree software onto a device that wasn't intended to support Those of us who have been playing with Linux for a long time, though, (which is also a reasonable application) and, unlike FBReader, it doesn't In this setting, it is a worthy alternative to FBReader Out KOReader without performing surgery on a more specialized readerĭevice. Which makes this version a good starting place for anybody wanting to try It is, seemingly, a highly portable application, being availableįor Linux, Android, Windows, and a number of dedicated reader devices. KOReader is distributed under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public Naturally leads to the search for a free reader for those books KOReader turns out to be an interesting So electronic books are part of the reading menu, which Neither of those can be said for electronic books,īut they do have the advantages of taking less shelf space and being more Reasonably high degree of certainty that any given book will still work aįew decades from now. User interface that has been optimized over centuries, and one can have a They crowd everything else out of the house. Your editor has a certain tendency to accumulate books, to the point that
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