![]() ![]() The navigation for books is chunky like a 1980 DOS file commander. I find the menu UX/GUI poor and non-intuitive. I find it hard to select system menu bar on Android.īecause it's so powerful and configurable there are huge number of menu items. I find the default touch/gesture annoying, but you can change it. Been doing HTML & CSS over 20 years and sometimes as part of paid job. It's good at reading "bad" epubs as you can override, but I ALWAYS fix bad epubs in Calibre. I saw no need to install it on my Kobo original H2O or Kobo original Libra. Tempted to install it on the Sage for that too. I installed it on my Elipsa purely so as to crop PDFs. I'd been using stock & Kobo readers for years. I found KOreader for epubs on Mars OK, but pointless for PDF as the Mars PDF reader does crop, brighten, contrast and more very well. #9 Quoth 05-20-2022, 06:14 AMI used KOReader first on the Boyue Likebook Mars because the stock epub reader is terrible. At some point, if there's anything you need that Nickel can't do for you, and there's no way to coerce it into doing it via config files, then KOReader might just be what you need. But do keep an eye on features and user feedback here on the forum and on the KOReader github. Tl dr: If you're just starting out, and you mostly read epubs, stick to the default Nickel interface. Also, while not sharing reading data with a third party, it has an excellent reading statistics interface, with tons of report options. ![]() It also has a nice, modular plugin API, and comes with a selection of plugins that add a lot of functionality: an RSS reader that downloads articles in epub format, an excellent OPDS interface, a very nice "Book Map" feature - a kind of "expanded" table of contents - and a very effective way to access your Calibre server if you use that feature of Calibre, and a highlight export feature which renders some very nice html files (Kobo highlight export depends a lot on a Calibre plugin, and is effective, but not as nice). I also prefer its epub rendering in general (although that can be fine-tuned in both interfaces). Its handling of user-defined dictionaries is also much easier than the stock one on Kobo, which is a bit of a mess. Not much more, but enough for me to notice.Īmong the things KOReader does better are its seemingly infinite ways of adjusting page display, fonts, and other parameters. Finally, I find that KOReader tends to consume more battery than the default interface, both on my Kobos and my Kindles. It also has a very effective Pocket integration, if you use that - KOReader only allows integration with Wallabag, which is libre, but not as popular. Another advantage of Nickel is its handling of DRM for books purchased through Kobo, borrowed from a library, or side-loaded via Adobe Digital Editions (KOReader doesn't handle DRM of any kind). There's an option to add series to a book's title in the filesystem display, but that's about it regarding series. It can browse tags, but it has a rather clumsy interface for that. KOReader, by contrast, uses a mainly filesystem-based interface to your library. One is its handling of collections and series via Calibre, which is just excellent. Nickel does a few things substantially better. Going back to your specific questions, if you'r reading mainly (k)epubs, you might not see many substantial benefits from using KOReader as compared to Nickel, at least not at a first glance. If you look around the forum, you'll find that there are a gazillion ways to fine-tune your Kobo reading experience even without delving into the complexities of installing another reader on your device. My advice would be to evaluate what you needs and wants are, and, depending on how your reading devices satisfies them, proceed from there. It's just that KOreader gives me some extras.Īt the same time, if you're a complete newbie as you say, you might not want to dive into installing third-party tools on your ereader just yet. And I have to say this is not related to Kobo's default, Nickel interface - I find it fantastic. This might, or might not be important to you. ![]() Another is that I, for one, prefer not to share data on the books I read with a third party, be that Amazon or Rakuten. One reason is that i like having the same interface on all of these devices. Lately, I've taken up using KOReader as my main reading interface on all my ereaders (Kobo as well as Kindle). It can do a reflow of the PDF content, apply OCR using Tesseract datasets to allow any text to be searchable/selectable, and has a staggering amount of options. My own experience drove me towards KOReader mainly because of its PDF reading capabilities. Regarding your question, you're likely to get as many answers as Kobo/KOreader users. ![]()
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