Ereader

Kobo is relying too heavily on 3rd parties for their software, such as Dropbox, Overdrive, Pocket, and Device Repairs. This is coming to haunt them.

Kobo has announced that it will replace Mozilla Pocket with Instapaper on its e-readers by the end of summer 2025.

The Boox Note Max comes with a 13.3-inch E Ink Carta 1300 e-paper display

Pocket is no longer available on Kobo e-readers, and no software update has been released to remove the broken code yet.

E INK had big plans for large-screen e-paper for 2025, but they are having massive setbacks in manufacturing.

Netronix had a tremendous year in 2024, thanks to sales of color e-readers. The company is optimistic about continued growth in 2025, projecting record revenue.

What new features, functionality, and changes can we expect for e-readers in 2025? Have we already glimpsed the future of reading?

I'm thinking of getting an ereader since i prefer reading paper to reading on a normal computer and most of my library is digital.

I don't need one that comes with an online bookstore (i get all my ebooks from sites like Project Gutenberg). I certainly don't need Amazon ads on the lock screen. My local library doesn't use OverDrive as far as i know. I don't use Pocket.

I do want one with e-ink, which i think is most of them. Being able to easily put my own epub files on the thing is essential, but that's about all i need. Though i wouldn't mind if what i get also works for taking notes.

I'm currently looking at a Kobo Libra 2, but i figured i should ask if a different option fits my criteria better. Just a more comfortable way to read ebooks than on a landscape laptop screen. Thanks in advance.

Paging rather than scrolling works really well on things like Boox, Bigme HiSense Pro and others. Are there any recommended apps for things like email, browsing (einkbro etc), Fediverse, RSS feeds etc etc that "page" rather than "scroll"?

So I tried to create an epub using google docs, but it has issues. Would anyone here know how to do it?

Tia

I just started working on a self hosted Android & iOS ereader app. I’d like to know what features you would like to see if you use this kind of app.

Current Planned Features

• Support for EPUB, TXT, and HTML ebooks.
• Syncing over WebDAV. (Bring your own server. I’m not hosting people’s pirated libraries.)
• Multiple libraries (a WebDAV server is a library), and multiple users per library.
• Current progress from offline reading will get synced when back online.
• Dark mode.
• Custom fonts and themes.
• Text to speech.
• Keep awake.
• Orientation lock.
• Open source. (GPL license)
• Native apps using React Native.
• Animations can be turned completely off.
• Really good e-ink screen support.
• Tablet and phone sized device support.

Background

I use a Boox Palma, but sometimes I don’t have it with me, and I’d like to read on my iPhone.

With the current ereaders I know of, there’s always some downside. Syncing costs money, rendering is janky, page turn animations can’t be disabled, themes cost money (really???), no cross platform support, etc.

I want to learn how to build native apps with React Native, so I’m using this as a learning project. I’m not trying to make money on it, so it’ll be open source, and you have to have your own WebDAV server with all your ebooks on it to sync.

Non-Planned Features

Some things I just can’t do or won’t help me learn, so I’m not going to do them.

• PDF support. (Maybe in the future, but not the initial version.)
• Web app. (I don’t want to host it.)
• Kindle app. (React Native doesn’t support them.)
• Syncing over anything but WebDAV. (I’ll be using WebDAV properties, and I’m not interested in doing any other providers.)

So I’d like to know, what are some features you would like to see, and what are the pain points you’ve experienced with your current ereader apps?

I have an aging Kindle and am looking for a new eReader to both read books and articles I've saved throughout the day. I use Wallabag to save articles. I like it over Pocket because it's better for paywalls because it fetches content directly from the browser.

I am leaning Kobo because of apps like Wallabako and KoReader (not exactly what that is yet but people seem to like it).

Anyone else have a similar setup or have any advice?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38498490

Seems like many are moving towards LCP in the future for e-books. But last I heard the NoDRM gang had to exclude the LCP DeDRM from the Calibre plugin due to legal issues (GitHub), and either way it was for an older version of LCP so it wouldn't work nowadays. Do you think someone will come up with a way to DeDRM these?

Internet Archive moving towards LCP as well

I recently got my Kobo Elipsa 2E and it's better than I expected, especially the simplicity of OS and how well handwriting generally works were a surprise to me.

Given that its handwritten notes features are surprisingly capable, I've been trying to use it to take notes for learning physics but quite soon ran into an issue in trying to use the advanced notebook:

In physics, there's a notation where you can write dx/dt as an x with a dot above it (ẋ), adding more dots the more often you take the derivative w.r.t. time though you typically only need 2 max. The handwriting recognition for formulas does not know this notation however and therefore converts any attempts to stupid stuff instead.

Additionally, I quite frequently write sentences that also contain some "math symbols" such as δ or θ or even just mathematical expressions such as L(x). Formula fields would recognise these just fine but no such luck with regular text fields; it tries to make normal letters or words out of these.
The maths formula mode cannot be used for annotating equations either as it garbles words into symbol structures.

The fall-back would be to just use raw drawing plots but my handwriting is quite poor and I'd rather have text because that really works quite well otherwise. I could write text mode until I need a sentence with a symbol in it but I don't know ahead of time whether I'll need it and by the time I know, it's already too late and I'd need to write the entire sentence again inside a raw canvas.

Are there any solutions or potential workarounds to my problems?

Is it possible to make the formula recognition aware of this notation somehow? I'll likely need further such niche notations in the future too.

Is it perhaps possible to have sections of text (or even formulas) that contain small raw canvases which don't get converted to text? That would also be a nice escape hatch.

Is there an alternative note-taking app one could side-load that works better perhaps? The hardware is surprisingly capable as mentioned; these issues are purely in software.

I've been gifted a Sony PRS-T3 over a decade ago. I've recently gotten into reading again and used it to read a manhwa/webtoon/web novel (or whatever the Korean ones are called) and most recently a light novel.
It's functional and perhaps even decent (especially given its age) but my main gripes with it are:

• Size: It's much too small to fit an entire manga page with readable text, so you need to use hacks like kcc which is suboptimal. I'd like the display to be the size of a typical manga or slightly larger.
• Lack of customisation: It has this ugly indented paragraph style in books which I don't like and the selection of fonts aswell as font rendering isn't great.
• Artifacts in images: When anything more complex than text is on display (and even with text it's subtly noticeable), you always see ghosts of the previous image. This is perhaps the most critical flaw for the purpose of reading Manga. Image quality in pictures isn't great to begin with either.
• Slow: Page turning is fast enough but doing anything else it turns into a slog. Switching between "books" (the manhwa had each chapter as a separate book) was annoying to say the least.
• Bad UI: It's just generally poorly organised and common things required way too many interactions (which, mind you, are slow).
• No light: I appreciate not requiring a light but I'd sometimes like to have the option.
• Ergonomics: It's light but not very comfortable to hold. I think I've seen readers that have a thicker end on one side so that you can better hold onto it? I'd appreciate advice here.

It's also showing its age; I had to tape the lid already as the material started to disintegrate.

I did very much appreciate how simple it is though. Open the lid, it immediately turns on, (I enter my PIN) and I can continue to read my book where I left off. Just like a real book but more convenient. I'd like to retain that property.
Battery life is also still great, even after all these years. I can close the lid and leave it sitting around for weeks and return to it with barely any battery drained. Again like a book where I don't have to worry about any battery charge either.
It's also quite light which I like, though a little bulky but totally acceptable.

Deal breakers:

• Enshittification: If the primary purpose of the reader is to sell books rather than read them, I don't want it.
• Espionage: I don't want Google, Amazon or anyone else spying on when I read what books. I'm probably going to have its networking off anyways but I don't want anyone spying on me offline either.
• Gesture-only page navigation. Physical buttons please.
• Ads of any kind.
• Any power/data connector other than USB-C

I don't care for DRM. I'll be loading epubs onto the reader from another machine.

I don't think I need colour. I mean, it'd be nice I guess (especially for manhwa, those appear to frequently be coloured?) but if that compromises on greyscale or text clarity, no thank you. I also don't know whether e-ink can reproduce colour accurately enough that it's even an upgrade over greyscale and doesn't just look ugly.

FOSS firmware would be amazing but my research suggests that's not really a thing? I'd settle for a decently customisable proprietary firmware as long as it doesn't suck donkey balls or needs to be connected to the internet.

I don't need to draw on it.

Price is secondary but I don't like wasting money either.

I'm in Germany/EU.

I don't have a single clue about the e-reader market. I'd appreciate any advice on what I want and, more importantly, don't want given the constraints and desires I described.

You may already know what EpubPress is. It is a tool for creating EPUB from web pages. The easiest way to do so is by using their browser plugin.

Unfortunately, that plugin doesn't work on the mobile browsers. That is why I created this webapp where you can set the name and description of the book and a list of links (one per line) and generate an EPUB. The EPUB will be downloaded automatically once generated.

Hello, I am looking for a 7 or 8 inch e reader which supports KOreader. I dont have to big expectations, it should just have a Touchscreen and preferably wifi so I can wirelessly transfer books to it. I currently use an old kobo aura, and ereaders based on Linux are pretty interesting to me, but i also dont really care if the device runs Android. Also, I would like to stay und er my budget if 250€

A cozy way to sneak in some classics.

I want to read books, not just buy them.

My Boox Page just got this tonight. Main new feature for me is that they added dark mode to the stock Neoreader app.

Does the Nextcloud SyncClient (Android) work on any ereader? I'd love to use it to snc my books and notes, but the blueish interface does not display at all on my monochrome eink tablet. Does anyone use Nextcloud successfully on a b/w device?

Does the Nextcloud SyncClient (Android) work on any ereader? I'd love to use it to snc my books and notes, but the blueish interface does not display at all on my monochrome eink tablet. Does anyone use Nextcloud successfully on a b/w device?