Comment on I read every day but rarely have my e-reader on me — so I built a self-hosted EPUB library that syncs my reading position between my Kobo and my phone

beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• n2024@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly, partly history. When I started, I wasn’t sold on KOReader yet, and the project began as a simple catalog just to push EPUBs easily onto my phone and my wife’s phone. Then I thought “why not read them right here”, so I built the PWA reader. Later I grew to really like KOReader, and that’s when I wrote the plugin.

  But there’s also a real reason it’s not just KOReader-on-everything: my wife and I read in the browser (the PWA), not in KOReader. KOReader-sync only works between KOReader instances, and it only syncs the position, not reading time. I wanted the web reader in the loop, and stats too, so I needed something that bridges KOReader and a browser reader. That’s the whole point of the pivot format.

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