u/PoolLow9937

I've been off Kindle for about two years now, reading my own EPUB and PDF files. What I keep running into isn't the reading itself — most readers handle that fine — it's everything around it. Highlights live inside whichever app I used. Books I read before I switched don't exist anywhere. Paper books are a separate universe entirely.

How do you handle it?

• One app for everything, or a reader plus a separate tracker?
• Do your highlights end up anywhere you'd actually find them again?
• Anyone found something that treats paper and digital as the same library?

I care about this staying local, too — no account, nothing synced to someone's server. That narrows the options a lot.

(I build one of these, so I'm biased. Not linking — I'm after how you've actually solved it, not a plug.)