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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by hresvelgr on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @09:51PM (#41865699)
I will second that the Kobo Libra Colour is an excellent device. To me it's the perfect reading device. To anyone using Calibre with it, make sure you get the Kobo plugin that transforms epub into kepub when sending to device. It normalises text size, margins, and so on so the reading experience is consistent no matter where you uh... procure your library from. I reconvert all my epubs anyway, but that step is critical.
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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by pfooti on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @11:06PM (#41866063)
Ooh, thanks for this. I was having all kinds of font and margin irregularities with my side loads, assumed I just had to power through and manually adjust the fonts in each book
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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by alias_neo on Thursday October 17, 2024 @04:59AM (#41867700)
I use Calibre-Web (self-hosted web-UI for Calibre) with my Kobo Forma, and with a quick change of a config file on the device (by plugging it into PC) I can use Calibre-Web as an online book store and retrieve my books over my network, I'd recommend it for anyone interested in keeping a large library and wanting to manage what's on-device.

No jailbreak or anything required, just some config in Calibre-Web and replace a URL or two in a config file on the Kobo.

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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by NoGravitas on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:03AM (#41868830)
Does the Libra Colour support KOReader? That removes the need to convert to kepub and generally gives you better rendering, at the cost of having to do more setup.
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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by hresvelgr on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:31AM (#41869038)
Well, their website seems to suggest it does. I will mention though, that plugin converts them automatically without intervention and does a pretty flawless job.
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Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle by Larrikin on Thursday October 17, 2024 @10:30AM (#41870033)
I run KOReader and Tailscale on my Libra Color. I personally very much dislike Calibre for organizing my library and use it only as a metadata editor, since I don't need to actually convert formats anymore. With Tailscale I can connect to my NAS running Kavita over OPDS and browse my library with the organization I've decided on.

KOReader has some quirks, but Kavita is trying to work around them. Theres a PR for proper syncing so you can read on multiple devices and KOReader doesn't respect the specs for OPDS so doesn't always update after you add books, but it is fixed by a restart of KOReader.

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