kfmon VS kepubify

- It is likely that NickelMenu and KFMon will be updated to support the Libra2 and Sage. You can use them to launch custom software like KOReader, an alternate reader that gives more flexibility to PDFs.

NOTE: Another thing that bears repeating is that on FW >= 4.17, you'll probably also want to prevent Nickel from scanning *nix hidden folders. And you'll want to tweak your config before unplugging your device (i.e., before installing this; or, if you've just upgraded your FW, during the first USB connection after the update).

Oh and step 4.( On FW >= 4.17, you'll need to prevent Nickel from scanning *nix hidden folders) from the link i sent you might be bit confusing to understand on first reading. Basicaly after you done the previous steps, before ejecting the reader you just open your config file which is /Kobo/Kobo eReader.conf , find line [FeatureSettings] , and under it paste this ExcludeSyncFolders=(\\.(?!kobo|adobe).+|([^.][^/]*/)+\\..+) . It will prevent default reader(nickel) indexing the system files in koreader hidden folder as books.

The big utility of WASM for me, like OP hints at, is bringing things that would be infeasible to port to the web to it, like, say https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and other conversion tools (eg ffmpeg-wasm). Much preferable to downloading something or uploading a file to some random person’s server

But now just before I did the whole NickelMenu hack I realized that if I download for example 10 epubs and put them on a folder in Dropbox with my phone the kobo will pick them up easily but not perfectly since they will be in epub format and not kepub.... So in the end why risk and spend so much time installing NickelMenu? If in the end probably I will probably still need to go to https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ to convert my epubs to Kobo Epubs one by one to then put them in Dropbox..

If you don't want to use Calibre at all, you can also convert epub to kepub using https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and then sideload the kepub file you get manually on your Kobo

Kobos are good. You can load them with your own files and they support a nice range of formats. Before loading EPUBs, convert them¹ for better performance². Old models keep getting software updates for years, and those can improve performance.

¹ https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

² Though you don’t have to, unconverted EPUBs load fine.

I use kepubify. It works well for me

Yes, you need to run kepubifiy first https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and put in dropbox folder the file you get after conversion :)

Convert them to kepub https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

Kepubify (pgaskin.net)

Pick whatever file you want and use kepubify to generate the kepub