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KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader

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416 points charleshan | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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b0dhimind ◴[01 Apr 25 23:57 UTC] No.43552491[source]▶
It's like learning to pilot a plane.... manually. Worth learning though and reading some manuals online. Minimal margins maximizing screen real estate, gesture shortcuts for almost anything, great reflow, and so much visual customization at a default level as well as per PDF... as well as having "profiles" to switch across. It's pretty amazing.

Most major miss is more friendly syncing though. Currently only supports Dropbox (WebDAV FTP seems to have issues, even when I used OneDrive key for it which works everyone else) and doesn't actually bidirectionally sync... only downloads. Why can't there be a simple auto-sync from a specific FTP directory including reading positions and such...?!

Also doesn't support Pocket or more popular sync services (only supports Wallabag).

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1. remram ◴[02 Apr 25 01:01 UTC] No.43552799[source]▶
It is nothing like learning to pilot a plane. Let's stop pretending that reading 3 paragraphs of texts is insurmountable. You can spend 2 minutes to get acquainted to an app you will use for hundreds of hours, and it's not like you need to know every feature to get started. You won't crash into the ground.

I'm sick of the cult of "intuitive". Intuitive only helps you the first time you ever use an app, and its lack of useful features hurts you forever. It obviously makes sense to optimize for the long run.