solus-sc VS kepubify

Solus

If you are interested in an excellent, 100% community-based distro without any corporate involvement whatsoever, consider Solus.

You might consider Solus OS, an independent that is not derived from Arch, Debian, SUSE, Fedora or anything else. Built from the ground up. I've been using Solus since 2017, and have been happy with it. Solus is focused on the use case of an "ordinary home desktop user", and is remarkably stable and reliable. Solus is a curated rolling release, which means that Solus is always up to date, but nothing is released unless and until it has been thoroughly tested. I've used both Solus Budgie (2017-2020) and Solus Plasma (2020 to date).

You might want to take a look at Solus Plasma. Solus is an independent, entirely community-based and community-funded distro, offering KDE Plasma, Budgie and Gnome desktops.

Solus MATE. Solus is extremely fast and lightweight. I'd say is perfect for this case

https://getsol.us > Blog

The main Solus website (getsol.us) is back online. DataDrake also updated it with some of the changes she's been working on. In the next few days she's going to go back to the datacenter to bring the rest of the infrastructure online.

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