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Author here, fancy seeing this here (again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190657)! I keep updating that article as I find things, the most progress there is is in ebook readers. I mostly use Koreader on a Kobo now, but they also have an Android app which I used when I had a tablet (which has been unfortunately bricked recently). This meshes well with Syncthing as I have read progress propagate everywhere, and I use git-annex for archival / backup / redundancy. I still use Calibre for importing books. I think I could get rid of it if I had Something that would: 1. take a book and search for missing metadata (e.g. publication date, author, title, series, publisher, cover) 2. record addition date (git-annex or filesystem m/ctime could be used for that) 3. ... well, that really is it Really, I don't use Calibre for anything else anymore. In the article I talk about the book browser, but I don't really use that anyway. I'm actually considering "flattening" my archive so that all books are in the same directory. That would make Koreader possibly more usable as it would directly show book covers while browsing around. It might also make navigating through a file manager better for exactly the same reason. More broadly, I wish we had better file managers on the Linux desktop. What I'm looking for, repeatedly, is something that would show me a preview of what's inside a folder, kind of a photo gallery / music browser / ebook browser all rolled into one. The generic idea is that if there's a `cover.jpg` or whatever it's named inside a folder, use that as a icon or at least some sort of overlay when displaying the folder. I'm not sure how that would work, I'm not a designer, but I can't help but think there Must Be A Better Way here. |
https://www.kavitareader.com/