Yeah they look great. One thing I focused on that I haven’t seen in them: a real offline-first PWA, books cached locally so I can read with no signal, and it syncs back when I’m online. That’s my main daily use case (train, no wifi), so it’s the part I cared most about.
Touché 😄 Honestly that’s the one feature I can’t compete with: a book has infinite battery and zero downtime. Best I can do is offline caching.
Not a problem for me, because my sync is manual, not automatic. I assigned it to a gesture (tap the top-right corner): wifi on, sync, done. Waking the device doesn’t trigger anything, so I never get that “jump to latest position?” dialog.
I did it this way mainly for battery, I don’t want wifi turning on every time the Kobo wakes up. And I push my position at the end of my reading, so the server is always up to date and there’s nothing stale to pull next time.
I did think about auto-syncing when you open a book, but haven’t done it yet, partly for the reasons you mention. For now the manual gesture works well for me.
Genuine question, which ones? I searched a lot before building this and didn’t find one that syncs both the reading position AND the reading time between a web reader and an e-reader. If you know one, I really want to hear it.
Small correction: OPDS is just for browsing/downloading books, it doesn’t carry your reading position. KOReader syncs that through kosync, which is a different thing. And kosync only syncs the position, not the reading time. On top of that, the position is stored in a KOReader-only format (XPointer), while web readers use a different one (CFI), so they don’t understand each other.
That’s the whole reason I made the plugin + my own “pivot” format: so my Kobo and my phone actually land on the same spot, with the reading time too. Maybe not the only solution, but I couldn’t find it ready-made.
Of course sir, here are the keys: API_KEY=aGVjayBvZmYgbWF0ZQ== (decode it if you dare)
Same energy as “I don’t need GPS, I have the stars” 😄 But fair enough, no problem if a real book works for you! The hard part of my project is not the library, it’s syncing the reading position between my Kobo and my phone. I put a lot of work and testing into that part. It’s been my daily reader for 3 months. Code is here if you want to look: https://github.com/ndieschburg/varbook
Thanks for the suggestion. I know Audiobookshelf, but it’s audiobook-first and the EPUB side is basic, it doesn’t do the KOReader ↔ web position sync I built this for. And no worries about the AI part, I was upfront in the post on purpose. You don’t have to use it or like it. I built it for myself, it works for me every day, and I shared it in case it’s useful to someone else. That’s all.