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Is Pocketbook a good option for me?

I'm looking to buy my first ereader! I am based in the US. I would be purchasing from Amazon, but I'd otherwise like to stay away from the Amazon ecosystem if possible. I don't want to be tied to a monthly subscription and I don't want ads. I'm looking for an ereader that's bigger than a phone yet still comfortable to hold in one hand and take on the go. I'd like to be able to read in any light conditions. I could go either way on a color screen. Page turn buttons are a huge plus.

Currently I only read on Libby and I use multiple library cards, so Kobo doesn't seem like a good option for me. I'm open to other methods of ebook borrowing. I don't need any notetaking features. It would be cool to do the NYT crossword on an ereader, but it's definitely not a requirement.

Is a pocketbook a good fit for me? Edited to add: How did you choose between a verse or an era?

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u/themakermaria — 17 hours ago
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I made a reading stats app for stock PocketBook (no KOReader needed)

I've had my Era Lite for a while and the one thing I kept missing was proper reading stats. Kobo has them, the Fable app has those nice yearly heatmaps, KOReader does it too, but I actually like the stock PocketBook reader and didn't want to switch my whole setup over to KOReader just for a stats screen. There's was an existing app on GitHub which was posted somewhere (couldn't find it anymore) that does something similar but it had some hick-ups for me, so I ended up building my own.

It's called Better Stats. It doesn't replace anything, it just reads the reading data the firmware already keeps (the library database) and turns it into a stats screen. There's a small background tracker that logs your sessions, and it tries hard not to count standby or long pauses as reading time, which was the main thing the other app got wrong for me.

Four tabs, and I deliberately kept it swipe-free:

- Overview – current book, progress, time left, pages per minute, that kind of thing

- Streak – current/best streak plus a GitHub-style heatmap of the year

- Calendar – each day shows the cover of what you read; tap a day for the breakdown

- Year – books finished per month with the covers

The whole UI is built from the firmware's own system font and dark/light. Covers are pulled straight out of the epubs. German and English, picks whichever your device is set to.

Fair warning: I've only been able to test it on my own Era Lite (PB710, FW 6.x). It should work on other newer readers but I genuinely don't know. If you try it on a different model I'd really appreciate hearing whether it works or blows up.

It's free and open source. Grab the release app into your applications folder, open it once and reboot so the icon shows up.

Repo + download: https://github.com/nikljuel/better-stats

Happy to hear feedback or feature ideas.

u/epixnick — 1 day ago
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Touch Screen Problem

I’ve had a PocketBook InkPad 4 e-reader since 2023. Yesterday, my water bottle spilled in my bag and soaked the device. I managed to use it afterwards, despite the backlight seeming slightly faulty (an LED at the bottom right appeared dimmer than the others). Aside from that, there were no issues. However, when I turned the e-reader on today, the touchscreen was unresponsive. It’s as if the screen is detecting constant touch input in the top-left corner. I can still use the buttons to turn pages, but it’s not an ideal situation. I’m wondering if I can keep using the e-reader with a Bluetooth remote. If so, do you know if I could use the screen with a USB mouse? Or if the screen might be repairable? Thanks for your answers.

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u/aubin49 — 3 days ago
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New Era Lite - English settings?

Just opened my new Era Lite and there are small parts in the menu that aren't in English. Like under the music player, it says "Mediateka" instead of Media Library. It also says "Onleihe" under one of the icons in the general apps section. Is there any way to fix this?

*Edited for more info

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u/clashfn — 5 days ago
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Over night screen froze partly PB touch lux 5

Like the title states, was reading just fine during my holiday. Picked it up and started the PB up to continue reading but then the lower half of the screen doesn't work anymore. Tried to reset, recharge and switch to dark mode but this lower half still doesn't work. Is my screen broken or are there any other tips?

u/justapuzzle — 6 days ago
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Pocketbook 634 - stop font from being absolutely massive & misaligned?

how do I change the font settings to be smaller and ideally left aligned? it‘s an ebook downloaded as an acsm file. this layout is honestly terrible & I‘m not sure I can read like this.

I was able to borrow this pocketbook from an older relative. I thought they had the text set to extra large, but when I checked the settings, the font was set to the smallest size. can I fix this?

u/le_chic73 — 6 days ago
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Is it normal to have two koreader apps?

Hello, I installed Koreader for the first time yesterday on a pocketbook, I can see two apps now, one is Korader and actually works and the other one is an app called "@_koreader"

What is this second app? can I remove it?

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u/Razer_PC — 7 days ago
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Easy way to build PocketBook apps with Qt Quick and QML

Hey all, I've been experimenting with homebrew apps for my PocketBook and found the latest firmware ships with Qt 6.8.2 and that the QML of many built-in apps is also available. It seems PocketBook created their own QPA plugin named "pocketbook2", presumably adding some device optimizations which is used by default.

After some wrangling with CMake, I managed to build an app that dynamically links Qt and I made a "kitchen sink" app to play around with them.

I packaged everything in this GitHub repo I just created alongside my "kitchen sink" example. I only tested this on my InkPad Color 3 - I'm fairly confident it'll work on other devices with newer firmware, but would appreciate it if you test and share your results.

u/fstanis — 8 days ago
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Read any web article as an e-book on reMarkable

I built Inkbox to send web articles to any e-reader, properly formatted and stripped of ads.

Open the extension on any article page, pick your device, and it extracts the content, builds an EPUB, and delivers it to reMarkable, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Boox, and others (via email or cloud folder, depending on your setup). You can preview before sending.

Website: useinkbox.app

Chrome Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/inkbox/jepgoeaebepeadgcehcpocpfcogakfoc
Firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/inkbox/

P.S. I know that on reMarkable devices a lot of tools already exist, but maybe this could still be useful to not technical people, that just want a 1 click, optimized solution from web to e-reader

u/Illustrious_Fly_97 — 8 days ago
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The lack of pocketbook case options are killing me

I just ordered a Verse and it'll be my very first e-reader 🥹 Still cost me quite a lot due to where I'm located (and currency issue) but it's cheaper than Kobo/Kindle at least. I've been scouring through taobao and our usual shopping apps but the case options are very limited and boring so it's kinda sad but anyway, I'm still excited for my Verse to arrive

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u/Electrical_Witness60 — 12 days ago
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no libby on pocketbook verse 🤬💸

I got a pocketbook verse SPECIFICALLY to use libby easily and reading on THEIR website that all of their devices over 6.10 firmware updates have it. Well the verse I got has a version over 6.10 and doesn’t have it. Do I return it??? What do I even do?????? My entire use case for this device is library books and the website said that it supported this. I am very confused 😵‍💫

u/pompadare — 13 days ago
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Reading pdfs on Inkpad One

Hello everyone,

I just bought an Inkpad One and I'm trying to find the best way to read epapers (newspapers as pdfs).
My first attempt is not going so well: Overall terrible formatting. And on many pages of the pdf, no matter where I click on the screen, it will open the browser (which I don't want).

I tried to install KoReader in hope for a better expereience, just to find out that it cannot be installed.

How can I get the best experience reading pdfs (especially daily newspapers as epapers) on this device?

Thank you for your help!

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u/cryptolepis — 11 days ago
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Battery suddenly got really bad. Did I accidentally removed wrong folder, or the heat broke the battery (pocketbook verse 629)?

This is about pocketbook verse 629 which I bought 8 months ago. 3 things happened almost simultaneously, and it's hard to pin-point what caused it. I am afraid that it's because of the latest heat waves in my country, but maybe I removed something by accident:

  1. I haven't been using the device for the last week. I turned it on today after recent heat waves in my country. There was almost 40*C in my house for a few days. According to the manual it's the maximum level for this device.

  2. I loaded an ebook and when I opened it, the pocketbook started counting pages and it kept counting (this ebook has over 1000 pages). Suddenly it got really warm on the back and the battery level was dropping in front of my eyes, 1% every 30-60 seconds. Only when it got to 5%, the battery level was dropping slower. When it got to 3% I couldn't use it anymore and I had to charge it.

  3. When I was loading this ebook via USB cable, I decided to remove those folders with books in other languages which come by default. I wanted simpler view. I am now not sure whether I removed some folder by accident and this caused the damage? This is what I currently have. Do you also have something like this? I don't remember if I created the "Downloads" folder myself or it was there by default, but is there any important folder missing here?

https://i.imgur.com/Pko1o5Z.png

I let the device discharge to 3% and now I'm charging it hoping that once it hits 100%, it will somehow magically calibrate and fix itself, heh... Btw. I have the latest firmware verson: 629.6.10.1461

edit: I charged the device fully, and my first impression is that the battery's level isn't decreasing that fast - at least after a quick 15 min test (with this big file after 15 min battery would be already like 15% lower). I think this big file was causing this for some reason, but I doubt it was a virus. It's super weird. :D It wasn't that big anyway, 16MB .epub. I removed the file just in case. :D I will need to give it a real test with real ebook.

edit2: After charging it to 100% (it was really warm when charging, not sure if this is normal), i couldn't resist and decided to take a risk with the same file, so I loaded it again and opened it and now it's working fine. The device is not overheating anymore, although now I notice it's a little bit warmer at the bottom, I am not sure if it was always like this, or if I am now oversensitive. It is definitely warmer when it's counting pages on long ebooks (~1000 pages). The battery stays at the same level and the percentage isn't dropping that fast anymore.

u/4quamarin3 — 12 days ago
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Need help resurrecting a Pocketbook 360 Plus (511) – Looking for an internal SD card dump!

Hi everyone. Dear Reddit, you are pretty much my last hope.Calling all Pocketbook 360 Plus (511) owners!

My faithful old companion decided to pass away after many years of loyal service. Even though I now have a Pocketbook 628, I really want to bring this old friend back to life and pass it down to my niece.

Comprehensive troubleshooting points to a bad sector on the internal SD card (yes, this is one of those e-readers where the OS and internal memory live on a regular 2GB SD card). It seems the bad sector is located right in the boot sector because even writing its dump to a new card doesn't let the e-reader start up. (I know about the CID matching process for the new card, but unfortunately, the corrupted data in the dump won't even let the device get to the card ID verification stage :().

Sorry for the long intro!

Here is my request: if there are any owners of a working Pocketbook 360 Plus (511) out there, could you please disassemble your device, take a dump of the internal SD card using free software like Win32 Disk Imager or HDD Raw Copy Tool, and upload it to any file-sharing service? If you use HDD Raw Copy Tool, the compressed image will only take up about 1GB.

I really hope someone can help, and I want to thank everyone in advance for taking the time to read this!

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u/Trollok314 — 11 days ago
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Pocketbook Sock

Hello, I have recently bought a Pocketbook Verse Pro Colour - I love!

I like the way it feels in my hand beyond all the great specs. and I have already read so much stuff on it - parts of books and scientific stuff / articles and reference material.

I was wondering if anyone knows where I could find / buy a sock where to fit it in when I’m not using it … Something like what was common for Apple iPod.
Don’t want a case that will make the PocketBook heavier!

I guess I could buy a felt sleeve made for a Kindle with similar dimensions

Thanks! ☺️

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u/Agreeable_Tea_7745 — 11 days ago
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Is it normal that Pocketbook gets slightly warm when it's turned on (PB 629)?

Sorry for spamming, but I wanted to ask a separate question and not mix with my previous post. I have a Pocketbook Verse 629 and it gets slightly warm at the bottom, when it's turned on. Is it normal?

Also, is it normal it gets noticeably warm when it's charging? I think it only draws 5W when charging, which I don't think should make it warm, but I want to make sure.

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u/4quamarin3 — 11 days ago