kobopatch
kepubify
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kobopatch
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Help with Kobopatch and nickelmenu
kobopatch v0.15.1 https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch Loading configuration from kobopatch.yaml Reading input firmware zip Patching ./usr/local/Kobo/libnickel.so.1.0.0 Applying overrides ... APPLY `Allow USB storage even when device locked` SKIP `Allow rotation on all devices` SKIP `Allow showing info panel on random screensaver` APPLY `Always show confirmation dialog before upgrading` SKIP `Block WiFi firmware upgrade` APPLY `Both page turn buttons go next` SKIP `Both page turn sides go next` SKIP `Bulgarian Phonetic Keyboard (GloHD/ClaraHD/AuraOne/H2O2/Forma/Libra)` SKIP `Change Browse Kobo home screen link target - Activity` SKIP `Change Wikipedia search language` SKIP `Custom Sleep/Power-off timeouts` APPLY `Custom font sizes` APPLY `Custom header/footer page number text` SKIP `Custom kepub default margins` APPLY `Custom left & right margins` APPLY `Custom navigation menu page number text` SKIP `Customize ComfortLight settings` SKIP `Cyrillic Keyboard (GloHD/ClaraHD/AuraOne/H2O2)` SKIP `DeveloperSettings - AutoUsbGadget` APPLY `Dictionary text font-family/font-size/line-height` APPLY `Disable all tutorial dialogs` SKIP `Don't grab exclusive access to event0` SKIP `Don't uppercase header/footer text` SKIP `Don't uppercase header/footer text and change page number text` SKIP `FeatureSettings - BookSpecificStats` SKIP `FeatureSettings - ExportHighlights` SKIP `FeatureSettings - FullScreenBrowser` SKIP `FeatureSettings - MyWords` SKIP `FeatureSettings - ShowFacebookShare` APPLY `Force user font-family in ePubs (Part 1 of 2)` APPLY `Force user line spacing in KePubs` APPLY `Force user line spacing in ePubs (part 1 of 2)` SKIP `Greek Keyboard (GloHD/ClaraHD/AuraOne/H2O2)` SKIP `Hide browser from beta features` SKIP `Increase page navigation history` SKIP `KePub stylesheet additions - text justify` SKIP `KePub stylesheet additions - word-spacing` SKIP `Larger Sleep/Power-off timeouts` SKIP `My 10 line spacing values` APPLY `My 24 line spacing values` SKIP `Never show Kobo Plus, wishlist, and points SmartLinks` SKIP `Only show Pocket SmartLink` SKIP `Only show stats SmartLink` SKIP `PowerSettings - UnlockEnabled` APPLY `Remove beta features not supported text` SKIP `Remove line from bottom tab bar` APPLY `Remove recommendations (row1col2) from home screen` SKIP `Remove title from reading header/footer` SKIP `Rename new home screen footer` SKIP `Replace adobe page numbers toggle with invert screen` SKIP `Set KePub hyphenation` SKIP `Set visible SmartLink` APPLY `Shorten dictionary entry not found message` SKIP `Swap reading header/footer` SKIP `Un-Force user font-family in KePubs` SKIP `Un-Force user text-align in div,p tags in KePubs` SKIP `Un-force font-family override p tags (std epubs)` SKIP `Un-force link decoration in KePubs` SKIP `Unify font sizes` APPLY `ePub constant font sharpness` SKIP `ePub disable built-in body padding-bottom` SKIP `ePub fixed top/bottom margins` Patching ./usr/local/Kobo/nickel Applying overrides ... SKIP `Change TOC level indentation` SKIP `Custom collection/author header title font` APPLY `Custom header/footer captions` SKIP `Custom page navigation scrubber` SKIP `Custom synopsis details line spacing` SKIP `Custom synopsis font size` SKIP `Customise Header back button` SKIP `Dictionary pop-up - increase available text area` SKIP `Increase Book Details synopsis area` SKIP `Increase headlines font` SKIP `Increase home screen cover size` APPLY `Increase library cover size` APPLY `Increase size of kepub chapter progress chart` SKIP `New home screen subtitle custom font` SKIP `Reduce new header/footer height` SKIP `Reduce top/bottom page spacer` APPLY `Remove footer (row3) and increase cover size on new home screen` SKIP `Remove footer (row3) on new home screen` SKIP `Remove forgot pin button from lock screen` APPLY `Series list increase cover thumbnails` SKIP `Show all games` ... Checking patched KoboRoot.tgz for consistency Successfully saved patched KoboRoot.tgz to out/KoboRoot.tgz. Remember to make sure your kobo is running the target firmware version before patching.
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Amazon Ecosystem vs Kodo Ecosystem
The other thing I really like is Kobopatch which lets you tinker with a number of appearance things, such as offering more, smaller, font sizes, reducing the space in the footer at the bottom of a page, and also does stuff like allowing you to block firmware updates. It's definitely a personal preference thing, but I found it pretty easy to get my head around and I like being able to mess about with that kind of thing.
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Three questions from a new Clara 2E owner:
I'm not a great expert on the matter, because I'm pretty satisfied with how Nickel works (I added Dropbox support, but that's not done with a patch, NickelSeries, NickelMenu and NickelClock, but the last three are proper add-ons, so no patches again), and it's been a while since I looked closely at them, but you can find more info; - on the github page of the guy maintaining them all https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch
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Essential Kobo plugins and software?
OP probably just means stuff like kobopatch [ https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch ] or Calibre plug-ins that are handy to work alongside the Kobo, such as this extension to the KoboTouch driver [ https://github.com/jgoguen/calibre-kobo-driver ]. I personally don't use kobopatch, but the extension for Calibre's KoboTouch driver has been v useful for me.
kepubify
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Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm
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
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NickelMenu +Android combo?
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..
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Can someone walk me through the easiest epub to kepub method for fanfiction (Ao3) like I'm five?
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
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Ask HN: What eInk reader you use to read articles/books?
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.
- Clara 2E Can't Handle Large Epubs?
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Kobo epub format
I use kepubify. It works well for me
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Kobo need to implement wireless file transfer
Yes, you need to run kepubifiy first https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and put in dropbox folder the file you get after conversion :)
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Covers don't show up properly on Kobo Nia
Convert them to kepub https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/
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Is there a way to convert my books to KEPUB without losing my reading time in the activity tab?
Kepubify (pgaskin.net)
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Sideloaded kepub wrong page numbers?
Pick whatever file you want and use kepubify to generate the kepub
What are some alternatives?
calibre-kobo-driver - An extension of the existing KoboTouch driver provided with Calibre. This plugin allows modifying ePub files to enable extra Kobo features. I am providing code in the repository to you under an open source license. Because this is my personal repository, the license you receive to my code is from me and not my employer.
calibre - The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager
koreader - An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
jellyfin-server-freebsd - jellyfin-server component for freebsd
openbooks - Search and Download eBooks
solus-sc - Solus Software Center
libgen-cli - A CLI tool to access the Library Genesis dataset; written in Go.
kobopatch-patches - Patches for use with kobopatch.
vala-panel-appmenu - Global Menu for Vala Panel (and xfce4-panel and mate-panel) - GitHub mirror
kfmon - Kute File Monitor, an inotify-based Launcher for Kobo devices
send2ereader - A service for sending ebooks to a Kobo or Kindle ereader through the built-in browser