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by input_sh 1034 days ago
Isn't being cross-platform, relatively modern-looking and open source already setting it apart from the current offerings?

There's great ones (like Foliate or Moon+) which are limited to one platform, there's ones that are cross-platform, but look so dated that I couldn't seriously use them for reading (like the one integrated in Calibre), and there's ones which are both fairly modern-looking and cross-platform, but not open source (like FBReader).

If this one syncs my books, reading positions, and highlights across my devices, that's gonna be a huge win in my book.
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JNRowe 1034 days ago
Hmm, that is odd about fbreader. I have the Debian package¹ installed that is Open Source², but looks like recent versions are no longer Open Source. Hadn't noticed that before.

Might also argue that nov.el³ is high quality and cross platform, but I'm not sure my definition of cross platform would necessarily align with other peoples ;)

¹ https://packages.debian.org/trixie/fbreader

² https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/f/fb...

³ https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el

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soligern 1033 days ago
I don’t see how an ebook reader can look “dated”. It’s literally displaying your text, with your chosen font in a frame.
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slikrick 1033 days ago
That's perfectly okay that you cant see how it could look dated. If you wish to have a productive conversation you should probably open your eyes and look a bit broader, perhaps by not minimizing things to their absolute minimum and thinking about that. you reduce the entire UI/UX as "in a frame" because the rest of it is about the actual content and font, which are literally the most basic need that the rest of the discussion is what actually matters
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soligern 1033 days ago
The ebook reader on calibre is literally a frame with almost no border. There is nothing to discuss regarding UI/UX. There is nothing extraneous. You can’t even see the frame if you go full screen.
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input_sh 1033 days ago
Unintuitive toolbars, takes an unnecessary amount of clicks to simply highlight a sentence, and resizing the window or moving it to a different screen reflows the content unintuitively.

Like everything else in Calibre, it has all the features I want to have and then some, but actually using them is always just a little bit more complicated than it needs to be.

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