r/koreader

Best e-reader model to jailbreak?

Wanted to know what you think is the best e-reader to jailbreak and use KOReader in in terms of durability, speed, performance, etc. Number one is the durability and longevity/future-proofness!

Thanks in advance for the insight 🤟🏽

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u/acephaledelossantos — 7 hours ago

Floating Dictionary v2, botón de traducir, footer personalizable y escalado con A+/A-

Acabo de lanzar la versión 2 de mi plugin Floating Dictionary y quería compartir la noticia.

  • Botón de traducir: nueva acción en el pie del popup que envía la palabra/frase buscada directamente al traductor integrado de KOReader (usa los idiomas de origen/destino que ya tenés configurados). No agrega dependencias extra, solo llama al módulo central de traducción.
  • Pie totalmente personalizable: hay un ícono de engranaje en el popup que abre un menú de ajustes con dos pestañas:
    • Pestaña Botones: mostrar/ocultar cualquier botón de acción (antes algunos estaban fijos y siempre visibles), y reordenarlos como quieras, incluyendo las flechas de navegación anterior/siguiente y el grupo de "plugins externos", que antes estaban fijos. Cada fila muestra un checkbox, el atajo del botón y flechas ↑/↓ para moverlo; los cambios se aplican al instante.
    • Pestaña Fuente (nueva): elegí cualquier tipografía que CRE conozca para el popup de vista previa, o dejalo en "Usar fuente del libro" para mantener el comportamiento automático de siempre. La lista puede ser larga según cuántas fuentes tengas instaladas, así que está paginada (<< < indicador de página > >>, más swipe izquierda/derecha para pasar de página) en vez de convertirse en un scroll gigante. Al elegir una fuente se aplica al instante, palabra, nombre del diccionario y definición se actualizan en vivo sin necesidad de cerrar el menú.
  • Los botones escalan con el tamaño de fuente: A+/A- ahora también redimensiona los íconos del pie, la altura de las filas y las etiquetas de texto de respaldo proporcionalmente, así que todo el popup crece/achica junto con el texto en vez de que los botones queden fijos mientras el resto cambia.
  • Estado deshabilitado más prolijo: en vez de ocultar los botones que no aplican en el momento (como anterior/siguiente cuando hay un solo resultado de diccionario), ahora simplemente se ponen grises y el toque no hace nada, se siente menos brusco que ver botones aparecer/desaparecer.
  • Etiquetas de respaldo más limpias: en dispositivos/temas sin el set de íconos, los botones antes mostraban una etiqueta de texto abreviada que igual podía recortarse. Ahora muestran una sola letra mayúscula, que siempre entra sin importar el largo de la traducción.
  • Menos parpadeo: el menú de ajustes refrescaba toda la pantalla en cada toque (elegir una fuente, pasar de página, reordenar un botón), lo cual se veía como un refresco/flash completo. Ahora solo refresca el pequeño recuadro del popup en sí.

Los ajustes guardados de orden/visibilidad de botones se mantienen sincronizados automáticamente si agrego o quito acciones en futuras versiones, así que no debería romperse nada para los usuarios actuales.

Repo acá: https://github.com/DisastrousPatience83/Floating-Dictionary

Encantado de responder preguntas o recibir sugerencias de funciones!

u/DisastrousPatience83 — 10 hours ago

Footnote popup window patch

Hello, I made a patch that makes the bottom popup footnote a floating window. I tried to mimic the Kobo Footnote preview as much as I can. I only tried it on PC, Android and Pocketbook so if there are problems on other devices or if you have suggestions for improvement let me know and I will try my best.

Here's the GitHub repo containing this patch: https://github.com/koma52/koreader.patches

The screenshot is from this book I chose randomly: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/alexandre-dumas/the-count-of-monte-cristo/chapman-and-hall

u/Koma52 — 6 hours ago

Animaciones koreader

Animaciones para Koreader:

Incluye animaciones para:

*Cambio de página en los libros

*Cambio de página en la biblioteca (probado en interfaz de usuario simple)

Apertura y cierre de libros

*Bloqueo y desbloqueo del Kindle

*Cambia entre la biblioteca y la pantalla de inicio en Simple UI

Para activar con un libro abierto, vaya a "toques y gestos" y "cambio de página"

Creado con Claude y Gemini basado en mi parche anterior, que fue mejorado por https://github.com/Euphoriyy.

Probado en un Kindle PW3

Repositorio: https://github.com/federico1176-wq/animation-koreader

u/Academic-Promise-536 — 8 hours ago

SimpleUI Wallpaper last opened page shines through

Hi everyone,

I recently installed SimpleUI on my PocketBook Era Color and I'm really enjoying it so far. However, I've noticed a strange issue with wallpapers.

Whenever I set a wallpaper, I can still faintly see the previous screen underneath it. It doesn't matter which image I use (I've tried both PNG and JPG), the previous screen always shows through.

I do have other patches installed, so I'm wondering if this could be caused by a conflict, or if it's a known issue with SimpleUI on PocketBook devices.

Anyone knows how to fix it? I'd really appreciate any suggestions.

https://preview.redd.it/ecd3zrzelebh1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cbfefaccd922bd63cdcb253675a9ee7e0d8ebc3a

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u/KittyBellaXo — 11 hours ago

Battery life tweaks HELP

Soo u mustve seen my previous posts.
Im using a new Kobo Libra Colour Got it 2 Weeks ago

I started reading in Koreader & the batter drain concerns me
started reading at 1.30pm with 97% (the battery just dropped to 97%)
continued reading till 1.55pm 96%
continued (inconsistent read after) 2.20pm dropped 95% n stopped
read about 20 more mins at 3pm-3.20pm it dropped to 94% (0% brightness at this time)

Honestly these are quite drastic changes..
I have :
WIFI OFF
SLEEP MODE WHENEVER I STOP USING
BLUETOOTH OFF
DISABLE WIFI CONNECTING
BRIGHTNESS 0%-30%
WARMTH MIDDLE RANGE

It seems to drastically drop 1% per 20mins.

Do you guys have any ideas what is causing this issue because I read for some people the battery is similar to stock UI while some eats up theirs?

How do I fix this to reduce battery drain because if its impossible to fix then I might uninstall Koreader…
I really care about battery life huhu because I use it everywhere and everytime Im free. I barely charge my device till the end of day or smtimes never.

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u/toffeechann — 13 hours ago
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The plugin community is the best!

So after many hours of tinkering and with the amazing help of Claude.ai I think I'm in a place I'm happy with.

My ebooks are stored on my Synology which Calibre Web Automate runs on. I then put syncthing on, Claude wrote a script that runs daily which copies these books to a flat structure that then synce to my Kobo when I'm on wifi to push any updates and keeps them without subfolders.

It also made a script to correct and move over the series data as I found that wasn't pulling through.

It does mean on my Synology I double up my ebooks but I have the space (but I have plenty) so now I have Bookshelf running with various other pluggins but it world seamlessly.

Kobo is so good for tinkering when KOReader is on it.

Thanks so all the people that make these amazing plugins!

u/ajfromuk — 1 day ago

Floating Dictionary, un preview compacto del diccionario en vez del popup completo

Hola a todos, hice un plugin para KOReader llamado Floating Dictionary y quería compartirlo por si a alguien más le sirve.

El problema que quería resolver:

Cuando buscás una palabra en KOReader, el diccionario se abre en un popup grande que ocupa gran parte de la pantalla. Está bien si de verdad querés leer una definición larga, pero para el caso más común (solo querés acordarte rápido qué significa una palabra) se siente pesado y te corta el ritmo de lectura.

En vez de abrir directo el popup completo, Floating Dictionary muestra una tarjetita flotante y compacta cerca de donde tocaste, con la palabra, el diccionario de origen y la definición.

Funciones principales:

  • Preview compacto: palabra + diccionario + definición en una tarjeta chica, no en pantalla completa.
  • Usa la misma tipografía del libro que estás leyendo: si tu libro tiene una fuente configurada, el preview la usa automáticamente.
  • Botones A- / A+: podés agrandar o achicar el texto del preview (palabra, diccionario, definición) de forma independiente al tamaño de letra del libro. Se guarda tu preferencia entre búsquedas y reinicios de la app. Los botones del pie de la tarjeta mantienen siempre el mismo tamaño, para que la barra de acciones no salte de tamaño.
  • Múltiples resultados de diccionario: si varias fuentes tienen la palabra, podés navegar entre ellas.
  • Acciones rápidas configurables desde el menú del plugin:
    • Resaltar la palabra buscada
    • Buscar en todo el libro (fulltext search)
    • Buscarla en Wikipedia
    • Agregarla a Vocabulary Builder (si tenés ese plugin instalado)
  • Compatibilidad con botones de otros plugins: si otro plugin agrega sus propios botones al popup nativo de diccionario, Floating Dictionary los detecta y también los muestra en su propio pie, para no perder funcionalidad por usar el preview compacto.

Estado actual:

Lo vengo puliendo a mano, probándolo en mi uso diario de lectura. Si alguien lo prueba y encuentra algo raro (con algún diccionario o libro en particular), decime y lo reviso.

Repo acá: https://github.com/DisastrousPatience83/Floating-Dictionary

Instalación: descargar/clonar, copiar la carpeta floatingdictionary.koplugin a la carpeta plugins/ de KOReader, y reiniciar.

Cualquier feedback, bienvenido 🙌

advancedreadermenu.koplugin

Plugin que busca mejorar la experiencia a la hora de resaltar, subrayar.

A la hora de seleccionar un texto, te encontrarás con un nuevo popup basado en el de readermenuredesign, pero con nuevos botones (los íconos son personalizables)

Luego, al presionar el botón de resaltado te aparecerá una barra de selección de "colores". Está pensado para pantallas Blanco y Negro donde añade 3 tonos de grises bien diferenciados y patrones (ya no tendremos 8 diferentes tipos de gris)

Si presionas el botón de Estilo (underline) aparecerá la barra de selección de estilo donde podrás elegir los estilos por defecto de KoReader: Resaltado, Invertido, tachado y subrayado, pero también 5 nuevos estilos.

También cambia la apariencia de los marcadores de página y les da "color". Para activar el selector de color de marcadores de página puedes asignar el gesto que desees.

Por último, un menú de acceso rápido a los marcadores de página que puede ser iniciado con el gesto que le asignes.

Disponible en appstore.koplugin. Github: https://github.com/DHaizon/advancedreadermenu/releases/tag/v4.0

A la hora de seleccionar un texto, te encontrarás con un nuevo popup basado en el de readermenuredesign, pero con nuevos botones (los íconos son personalizables)

Luego, al presionar el botón de resaltado te aparecerá una barra de selección de \"colores\". Está pensado para pantallas Blanco y Negro donde añade 3 tonos de grises bien diferenciados y patrones (ya no tendremos 8 diferentes tipos de gris)

Si presionas el botón de Estilo (underline) aparecerá la barra de selección de estilo donde podrás elegir los estilos por defecto de KoReader: Resaltado, Invertido, tachado y subrayado, pero también 5 nuevos estilos.

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u/NoBarracuda616 — 23 hours ago

Is there a way to change the names of the highlight colors?

Im on kindle, so all of the colors are just 8 different shades of gray, instead of it saying red, yellow, green… is there a plugin/setting that I can change the names to something else for organization?

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u/Loose_Cranberry_491 — 21 hours ago

Looking for simple plugin

Im COMPLETELY new to Koreader. I followed through this post to install everything. However, I quite dont like the jumbled up books and i know that you can set specific folders for series.

Im looking for a simple plugins thats almost like the stock UI? Just prettier library page & arrangement I like the tab of “Author, Series, Collection” but my current koreader dont have that feature. I also prefer reading in a similar way as the stock kobo (just the koreader font is better)

Some might say then just use the stock UI, but i do love the aesthetics of the library. I still have alot to learn and play around with the plugins & add ons.

Also this is just is theres any out there, if not i might reconsider uninstalling bcs its quite a messy library and too many icons during reading js quite distracting.

On the book page the 3rd pic is stock UI. I do just enjoy the chapter pages & the percentage.
I really dont want the time n etc above i like it clean haha.

Im still new, so i dont know what else koread has to offer.

Also i usually load my books through calibre in stock ui,
Koreader i just add to library file
I know you can set a series file for it too manually

u/toffeechann — 1 day ago

How to Install KOReader on Android Tablet

My android tablet has Kobo as an ereader, but I want to add KOReader to it. How do I install KO to make this work?

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u/MichaelTNC — 23 hours ago

Show Book Cover on Loading (and Closing) or Nothing at all Patch

Hey everyone, how's it going?

Based on the patch by u/Fresshmaker and u/reuerendo, I created a "Plus" version of `bookloadcover.lua`.

It includes a feature to remove the default book loading and closing widgets replacing them with the book cover or simply removing them altogether. I also added a performance mode that prioritizes cached, pre-loaded images (low quality) to speed things up.

I'd love for you to take a look and let me know what you think.

Bookloadcover Plus

u/djey404 — 2 days ago
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Extremely customizable quick settings for KOreader

Hi,

Download

I was looking for quick setting for ko reader, found one by Qewer33. looked in the code and it looked simple enough to poke around and after 1 sleepless night and few more references form renandeivison here is the abomination that i came up with.

it is a completely customizable quick settings for Ko reader. here are the feature:

- Fully customizable top action buttons:

- reorder

- show/hide per button

- rows (1-3) and items per row (1-10)

- optional text labels

- icon shapes: none, circle, square, squircle, pebble, hexagon, pentagon, teardrop, flower

- Supports many actions out of the box:

- Wi-Fi, Night mode, Rotate, USB, Restart, Exit, Sleep

- Search, Cloud, Z-Library, Calibre, OPDS, NotionSync, Reading Streak

- plus icon-backed plugin actions (LocalSend, Puzzle, Crossword, stats, KOSync, BookFusion, etc.)

- Rich Frontlight + Warmth controls:

- tap/swipe sliders

- tri-state quick icons (off/mid/max)

- optional +/- controls

- Powerful Info Bar / Clock customization:

- enable/disable

- custom date/time format strings

- alignment, font family/style/size

- single/big/small text layouts

- stacked / two-column / three-column header layouts

- segment mapping (clock, primary, secondary, info, empty)

- Optional live info line under/with clock:

- reading progress, page position, book title, time left, battery, Wi-Fi, frontlight, warmth, night mode, rotation

- Custom main tab icon chooser (default, other-repo style, and additional custom icons).

- Includes a larger icon pack (SVG + PNG) with automatic usage in new buttons.

- Added Reset defaults for both:

- Button settings

- Info bar/clock settings

I am still adding new features

If you want to please try this out the installation steps are simple. read the README

Please star the repo if you liked it: https://github.com/shouryashashank/koreader-quicksettings

u/deadnonamer — 1 day ago
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Best Annotation plug-in and/or management method?

I am wanting to use my ereader to annotate more (maybe get a scribe soon if i like it enough to see if it compares to book annotating which i prefer) but I would like a way to quickly view them and where I could either have cloud or local backup methods periodically to ensure I don't lose my annotations. How do you organize your annotations? I use my home pc to manage my library on calibre and use KoReader on my Kindle PW5 so I am open to both calibre and/or koreader plug-ins or patches. something with an easy learning curve or none at all preferred <3

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u/rightryuk — 1 day ago
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Bookshelf v3.7 - Bringing it all together

Edit: I can't count - this was v3.8.0 not v3.7
v3.8.1 out now with extra font size control.
v3.8.2 had a quick gesture fix
v3.8.3 has a bunch of additional user feedback improvements implemented, thanks for all the comments :)
v3.8.4 has optional paging animation (thanks u/Academic-Promise-536 for the idea!) and some translation improvements

Over a week since the last bookshelf release, what's going on!

Lots of little bits but also bringing together several views that were previously separate. Expanded description, reviews, and the book long press menu. These are all now in one tabbed modal instead of separate views. All previous entry points still work and take you to the correct tab (long press a book to get the edit tab, tap the description to get the expanded description view, tap the hardcover star rating to get the reviews).

There's also a new view for tags - you can get to this by tapping the '+5' button that previously just let you know there were too many tags to show.

No matter how you enter this view, you can use the tabs or swipe left/right to switch through the other tabs - basically everything about the book is now in one modal.

Some other improvements in this release:

  • Edit the embedded tags in a similar way to how you can edit collections
  • Native-style divider entries and empty folders in the custom start menu, with an underline on the active folder or tap item to give more feedback when using the menu
  • White book-cover cornerglitch fixed on Android/colour screens
  • Start-menu has better support for reader mode
  • If you swipe up to expand the shelf and close the hero, bookshelf will remember that and stay expanded until you change it back. So you can go in and out of books without seeing the hero area if you prefer the full screen grid view. New option in the expanded shelf settings let's you choose what happens when you tap a cover in the expanded shelf mode.

GitHub: https://github.com/AndyHazz/bookshelf.koplugin

u/AndyHazz — 2 days ago

Bookfusion Confusion

So far, loving bookfusion, but at an absolute loss on something: when you go to browse books in the plugin and see things like "currently reading" or "completed" -- where are those being populated because it's certainly not matching what I am actually currently reading, nor what I have completed. It's had exactly one entry of a book I finished already and marked as finished. But it's still under "currently reading."

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u/InnovationHack — 1 day ago

How do I make these covers only?

I have a bunch of author folders and when I click on them, it goes to the book collection with that author, I don’t want that. I just want the book covers sorted by author with their picture.

Can someone help or point me in the right direction?

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u/newbettaintown — 1 day ago

Project title showing series instead of books?

I'm know I did something but I can't figure out how to undo it (it's been a HOT minute since this happened. I just want to to go back to showing single books now not like this. Help would be lovely lol

I did it ! on my tolino shine 2 hd

I'm so grateful to all the passionate people that work on koreader and plug in.

I have an old device, a tolino shine 2 hd, I bought it second hand just to try e-reader and i loved it so much that I wanted to buy a new device that could be faster, with more stats.

Koreader did all that and more ! I don't need a new one anymore.

I love that you can personalize every f thing. I'm obsessed.

I have :

Simple UI

ACSM plugin (i needed that so I can open my public library books, so glad it exists)

Booksend

It tooks me 2 days to have the perfect setup and I don't need my tolino app anymore.

But I'm still curious about other plugin I could have, if you have any idea to share !

Customizing my koreader is a new hobby I guess

u/warriorweird0 — 1 day ago