I like e-readers now

• koreader

  390 15,254 9.7 Lua

  An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

  

Definitely install Koreader!

http://koreader.rocks/

I can't even begin enumerating the features. It really rocks!

• plato

  23 1,181 7.8 Rust

  Document reader

Kobo is quite friendly with 3rd party software. Both Plato (in rust) and KO-Reader (in c/lua) are excellent alternative to builtin reader app, the only drawback is they can't open DRM-protected books.

https://github.com/baskerville/plato

https://github.com/koreader

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• The-Open-Book

  38 7,362 3.7 C++

Worth highlighting the Open Book Project [1], an open source e-reader hardware design and software stack.

The design is open, and you can make your own with commodity parts. People are starting to sell PCBs, and complete devices.

It has its own open software stack, and I hope will have a variety of vendors in the coming years.

Ofc the e-ink patent issues remain, but this goes some of the way to solve things at the e-reader level.

[1] https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

• kindle2notion

  9 865 1.8 Python

  Export all clippings from your Kindle device to a database in Notion.

My favorite part about ebooks, and specifically Amazon is that you can flip through your highlights. I will highlight parts of a book I really enjoyed and sometimes write personal notes about them as I read.

I enjoy going back and spending 15-30 minutes going through my highlights and notes on books I previously read and re-reading sections around highlights. It brings back a surprising amount of memories and emotions from the book that get lost over time. Now Amazon lets you read these with read.amazon.com and offers some export features. The export features are still not perfect, but are better than they were.

I also like the sheer number of books I can keep on my Kindle and they don't take up physical space in my home. I don't want hundreds of books stacked up that i read once. So instead I find that I read on Kindle first. Then if I REALLY enjoy the book, I will purchase a physical copy for my bookshelf. So my bookshelf becomes a physical embodiment of my curated favorites.

Here is the tool I use to get highlights and notes off my Kindle and onto Notion, which allows multi-device syncing and web-access to my notes and private storage.

https://github.com/paperboi/kindle2notion

• inkpalm-5-adb-english

  16 63 4.1 HTML

  Instructions to setup an Xioami Inkpalm 5 with English and other apps

I bought a phone sized ereader and it has really amped up how much I can read. Now when I have a moment to spare I can decide to pull out my phone or my ereader and after a certain time in the afternoon I plug in my phone and leave it so I only consume books or saved items in pocket.

My device of choice was the Inkpalm 5. Some setup instructions :https://github.com/philips/inkpalm-5-adb-english

I also highly recommend readwise.io: a super polished service for collating and reviewing highlights from books.

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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