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0 pointsbb8811mo ago0 comments

I tried koreader on a kobo. I wouldn't call it trivially easy when I installed it last year, and I promptly uninstalled it and removed all the hacks so I could get back to a sane installation of the Kobo OS again.

I think maybe for a kindle it might be worth it, but the reality is for Kobo, it's probably more hassle than it's worth.

I found my time better spent setting up a calibre-web in a docker container and then having my kobo sync to that. And that was awesome.

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Larrikin11mo ago

What's the issue you had? When you reboot or quit you're kicked back to regular Kobo and you open up Koreader through a menu option.

The Kobo OS is good enough for me to recommend it to family, there's nothing wrong with the iPod experience of uploading books.

But Koreader+Tailscale+Kavita OPDS is the best reading experience I've ever had.

bb88OP11mo ago

I don't remember frankly, maybe something with the script, maybe something with KFMon. Lack of integration with the Kobo OS itself? Maybe it had to be rooted to install KFMon, but I was reading Koreader could just run inside nickel menu maybe? But yet the script installed KFMon?

Again, I don't remember. And whatever it was it's not worth me trying to reinstall it just to remember what it was, and then to uninstall it again.

BeetleB11mo ago

The installation instructions are a bit windy, so many people miss that there's a simple script that automates the install for you.

The one thing you have to watch out for : You need to return those scripts whenever Kobo has an update. You won't lose your data or anything but a standard Kobo update dialed disables Koreader

cyberpunk11mo ago

It’s two .tgz files extracted to / … how is that not trivially easy?

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