Comment on Searching for eBook reader solution

ray@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• hoppolito@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been exclusively reading my fiction books (all epubs) on Readest and absolutely love it. Recently I also started using it for my nonfiction books and articles (mostly pdf) as an experiment, and it’s workable but a little more rough around the edges still.

  You can highlight and annotate, and export all annotations for a book once you are done, for which I have set up a small pipeline to directly import them into my reference management software.

  It works pretty well with local storage (though I don’t believe it does ‘auto-imports’ of new files by default) and I’ve additionally been using their free hosted offering to sync my book progress. It’s neat and free up to 500mb of books, but you’re right that I would also prefer a byo storage solution, perhaps in the future.

  The paid upgrades are mostly for AI stuff and translations which I don’t really concern myself with.

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