COPS VS awesome-reMarkable

This add-on is based on Sebastian Lucas' COPS, updated to work with PHP8.

I started with calibre-web with COPS. It worked fine. Now I use Kavita.

Sounds also like a nice approach too. For me personally an overkill as I only want to copy and read the book I am currently studying. My (calibre) library is synced between my servers and accessible via cops if I really need to search/download a book on the go.

cops - Cops(http://blog.slucas.fr/en/oss/calibre-opds-php-server) by Sébastien Lucas, stands for Calibre OPDS (and HTML) Php Server.

If you're technically literate and don't mind some work, consider setting up COPS on a Raspberry Pi. You'll have a full OPDS server that you can connect to a local wifi network or (with some more work) expose to the full internet. I use this setup as a backup for my Calibre libraries and usually browse them with Yomu or TiReader on an iPad.

I do something similar except I use COPS to host the mobi files and download it via the Kindles web browser. I did switch the theme to a basic black and white theme.

> As much as I love the hacker spirit of cracking open hardware and software and bending it to your will (whether or not it was designed towards that end), I enjoy my reMarkable precisely because I can get away from the ubiquity of computing and needing to constantly tinker with and repair software.

Personally I completely agree with you, and could have written almost exactly that paragraph - I too have a ReMarkable (the 2nd / current version), and love using it as it ships for both note taking and especially for reading ebooks/PDFs ("especially" just because it's what I use it for more, not because that's what it's better at - in fact, it's UI for reading documents is among its weaker points and I hope they improve it in future software updates).

However it's worth pointing out that you can SSH into it, and there are a fair few 3rd party tools and hacks for it - so far I've avoided trying any of them as there's nothing that I want enough to have even a 1% risk of bricking it to worry about. But I'm tempted to start playing around with it someday.

This is the best list of stuff for the ReMarkable that I'm aware of, though I don't know how complete it is / how many released tools or guides there might be that aren't included here:

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

There are options for USB/wifi syncing and lots of other community mods if you're handy with a terminal: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

If you follow the instructions and you are fine to turn automatic updates off, you may have a lool at awesome-remarkable https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

This sentence doesn't make sense. People apply hacks because they want to make full use of their device. reMarkable has shortcomings, yes, but they can be overcome with the software that others have written. The Awesome reMarkable link the sidebar was basically a founding document of this very subreddit.

More info can be found at awesome-ReMarkable: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

Use a software to manage your templates automatically. See the Awesome reMarkable list, and Ctrl-F "templates".

You can also take backups using easy, convenient, community-written software, like RCU (which I'm the author of), reMy, reMarkable HyUtilities, rmExplorer, rmAPI, and many others found in the Awesome reMarkable list.

You could try reMy, which has its own renderer. There are more rendering programs in the Awesome reMarkable list, many of which will work with 2.15 and below--just avoid anything saying 'cloud' or 'web UI'.