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Re:KOReader by joshstrange on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @10:46AM (#49098251)
It does not have any sort of "whispersync" but, ironically?, I feel like whispersync could be recreated with things like Whisper and parsing the epub/whatever to line up progress. BookOrbit is in active development from what I can see (I'm not connected to the project, just a happy user) and it wouldn't surprise me if that was a feature in the future. It's something I've mulled over building for a while (even before Whisper).

For my Audiobooks I don't use BookOrbit because my setup is:

- Buy on Audible

- Rip DRM off

- Add to Plex

- Use Prologue (iOS only) to listen

And I freaking love that setup so I'm not looking to replace it currently.

Re:KOReader by jangxa on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @01:04PM (#49100096)
How do you rip the drm off audible? Id love to free my audioooks.
Re:KOReader by realtimeuzer on Monday August 10, 2026 @01:18AM (#49239482)
if your on iphone or ipad witbound basically does what whispersync does but its your m4b and epub files