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submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] ikidd 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

You might try out FBReader. It has lots of options to customize it, and you can store your books in Calibre where it can access them via OPDS instead of getting locked into some online BS like Google.

[–] umbraroze 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Oh wow, FBReader was literally the first Android EPUB reader I used... In 2013 or so. I guess I need to see how it has improved since then.

Also, Calibre and I have a strong frenemies relationship. Once upon a time I wanted to meticulously download, de-DRM, catalog and locally archive all of my ebooks. But while Calibre has the technological chops to do it, usability is a bit quirky. I actually just installed Calibre at my current system and will bring over my old ebook library as soon as I dig up my old laptop. And also bring over about a decade of Kindle purchases (most unread, yeah).

Edit: Wikipedia on FBReader:

In 2015 the software for all platforms became closed-source: the old open-source code hasn't been updated since. The Android app was split into Free and Premium versions,

Awwwww crap. Hope there's an actually maintained open source fork.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I really love calibre, but agree it can be a bit quirky. Like many ADHD people, I'm my own worst enemy sometimes, when I attempt to do a big import of books and then it's too much work and my library gets messy. Something I did that helped was I had different tags for different levels of processed. Newly imported books would be auto-tagged "new". Then I'd batch process them and remove the tag if I fully completed it. Often I'd burn out when I'd discover a book that still had DRM, or was missing OCR (ability to select text within pdf), so I'd add "DRM" or "NoOCR" tags. My workflow works pretty well for me now, because I've made it easier to do half a job

[–] umbraroze 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

True! One of the big things that really put me off from reading ebooks was that I used to buy book bundles (e.g. from HumbleBundle) and then just dumped them in my library. I really should have been cataloging each new book bundle, but I didn't, somehow. I just saw a giant big mess of my own doing in the ebook library and went "nope" and that just became another Big Pile of Stuff I Need To Deal With Later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Book bundles make things messy, yeah.

Something that I've really struggled with is that I wish it were easier to make notes of where you've gotten a recommendation from. Like let's say I'm learning Python and there's a dizzying amount of books available for that. Someone I personally know and respect gives a glowing recommendation of a book, so I download it and process it's metadata in calibre or similar. Then a Reddit thread has a dump of free books. I download and import those. Then a blogger I really like recommends a few books, so I retrieve any of those I haven't got yet and import them. Time passes, and I go looking in my library for a book to learn Python with, and I get overwhelmed by choices and I can't remember which of them were good and for what reasons.

I have a similar problem with bookmarks, because sure you can add tags, but tags are best when you've got a limited vocabulary, to maximise reusability. What if I just want to write a brief note about why I deem this worthy of saving, so that I'm not confused when I'm skimming over bookmarks months or years later.

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