KOReader

My wish is to see ebooks become first class citizens on all digital devices. Apple has a native ebook reader built in to their devices. It's cumbersome and bloated, but it's there. No web browser except Yandex has built in ebook support, even though it would be the easiest thing in the world. Android, Linux and Windows have no built-in ebook reader, as far as I know.

Murasaki [1] is the most performant and sleek ebook reader you can get for MacOS currently. It's magnificent, but the creator has regionally limited who can get it, unfortunately.

[1] https://genjiapp.com/mac/murasaki/index_en.html

I installed it and I use Calibre to send books over wifi. Simple and sweet setup.

I use KOReader on everything except e-ink devices.

Linux desktop. MacOS laptop. Android tablets. Android phones.

Where-ever I am, I can pick up a device and continue reading from where I left off. I have the same config everywhere (it would be nice to be able to distribute that) for gestures and taps. I use the same font everywhere (TeX Gyre Pagella, which is a Palatino clone.)

Customization begets comfort.

I installed it on my Kobo to have the syncing from Calibre. Works perfectly, no complaints.

Use it both on my phone and on an eink Android tablet. Love it, especially the dark mode.

Amazing software. Makes a 10 year old Kindle of the best electronics I own.

KOReader my king

It seems there's a native dictionary. How does it fare?

Does it have Kindle X-Ray like features, like integration with Wikipedia or possibly integration with AI for contextual information?

The PDF support is just the right thing to have.

See also this discussion from earlier today, which might have prompted this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094189

I run this on a pinenote, and I love it. Only sad thing is that I started transitioning to Linux and then lost interest, so I've only got about 8GB for data on the Android partition. I use syncthing to sync a folder with my laptop, so I just push a pdf into the folder on the laptop and then it turns up on the pinenote in koreader.

Koreader rocks indeed

KOREA!

It really does rock.

Thank you for this

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