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Ext Dictionaries definition overload doesn't work anymore since 2020.09

November 16, 2020, 1:41 am
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I am using this excellent function implemented here by @Pazos:

https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/5664

which makes it possible to use virtually any installed external dictionary app on Android, given it supports curresponding intent.

It has been working fine until 2020.08.1 (I am using the app picker variant,
where the dictonary is selected by app picker dialogue on its first usage attempt) but after update to 2020.10 the dictionary isnt's started anymore.

I tried to isolate the problem and found out that it stopped working already in 2020.09, and can reproduce it on my Samsung mobile (Android 8) with this simple dictionaries.lua (taken from Pazos's example in github link above)

return {
{ "Generic", "App picker", true, nil, "send" },
{ "ColorDict", "ColorDict", false, "com.socialnmobile.colordict", "colordict" },


If I copy this dictionaries.lua to koreader folder, both entries are shown if you go to ex. dictionary selection dialogue, but:

If you select app picker option, nothing happens afterwards, it doesn't work.
On the other hand, you are not able to select ColorDict, although it is installed on the Android.
Only if I change the boolean flag in the ColorDict line from false to true
(as not to check whether the app is installed), the I can select it and it really works !

I see that there were some changes in dictonaries handling, the list of predefined dictonaries was moved from dedicated frontend\device\android\dictionaries.lua file to frontend\device\android\device.lua
and perhaps there soomething happend ... I tried to understand the changes but do not know the LUA syntax so good (:-( so am not able to recognize it at first glance

Thanks, Norbert
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How to re-install Koreader on fw 4.25.15875

November 16, 2020, 8:19 pm
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Dear all,
I've just update my Kobo Glo into FW 4.25.15875 and i get generator error on my Koreader.
I've also manually install new Koboreader v2020.11 by copy to folder koreader but still have "generator error".

Please help me re-install koreader in fw 4.25.15875.

Thanks in advanved!

Best Regards.
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2020.11 update & status bar

November 17, 2020, 7:55 am
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Hi,
Just installed OCP-KOReader-v2020.11 update on my Kobo Glo and noticed that I cannot dismiss the status bar like I used to. The bar will go away with a page turn and a couple of other actions but otherwise persists. Is this a new feature?
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KOReader and Calibre OPDS file formats

November 20, 2020, 9:44 am
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Well, that's embarrassing. After writing this long post it just started working w/o me doing anything... no idea why it only offered me AZW3 the dozen or so times that I tried before... :/ So, now I have a new question, which is probably a big stretch, and probably not possible...

Is there any way to remotely trigger Calibre to do a conversion on the fly when making an OPDS request?


~~~~~ OLD QUESTION ~~~~~

Not sure if this is a Calibre question, KOReader question, or limitation of the OPDS protocol, but thought that I'd start here.


When connecting to the Calibre OPDS server from KOReader and select a book from my library that has more than one format, I'm not offered an option to select the format. The book that I want to download now was purchased from Amazon, so it's in azw3 format, but KOReader apparently doesn't support that, so I converted to epub, but the OPDS interface only offers me the single file format to download.
  • Is this a limitation in the KOReader UI? Is there some way to get it to prompt which format I want?
  • Is this a limitation in Calibre? Can I configure which file format to default to?
  • Is this a limitation of the OPDS protocol, only supporting a single file? If so, well, hopefully there's a good answer to one of the previous two bullets. :)

Thanks!
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Video with KOReader and Kobo

November 28, 2020, 6:20 am
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"Dictionary lookup canceled" can be stuck

November 29, 2020, 3:46 am
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I am really into the dictionaries, I have many on my readers. There is a KOreader feature: on dictionary lookup you can tap the "Seraching dictionary for:" message and the lookup will be cancelled immediately.
But this could happen quite unexpectedly. When you search for a common word and many dictionaries are searched, the result window appears, and you switch back and forth between dictionaries to check all results. But sometimes when you close the results and choose another word to look up, instead of the results the "Dictionary lookup canceled" message appears immediately. After that, you are not able to look up anything because you will constantly get that message until you restart KOreader.

I know this is a very special bug, and could be huge work to locate. Everything could affect it: slower reader, a lots of big dictionaries and so on, so I don't ask for really eliminate this bug. Rather I am wondering if somebody could do a simple workaround: when the dictionary search is starting, please empty out the variable or something which indicates that the search is cancelled. Or maybe when a search starts, KOreader thinks incorrectly, that a tap happened and cancels the search, so maybe the stack of taps should be emptied out. I think this kind of reset on start could prevent this bug. Thanks, if sombody could do anything about.
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Markdown?

December 2, 2020, 1:07 am
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I was thinking about it while using a Notepad++ plugin which renders a markdown file directly in html: it would be great to have the same in Koreader! I mean a plugin which opens a .md file as a fully rendered .html. This way I could store a lot of small size files but read them in an elegant way... And even edit them!
Would it be possible and of interest?
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Frontlight control gesture : Minimal step is 5% instead of 1%

December 3, 2020, 12:14 pm
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Hello,
I have just updated my koreader with the lastest nightly realease after 1 year without update. (!)
I was happy to discover new features :))
But in my old release, i was able to set frontlight control gesture percent by percent. But from now, the minimal step is 5% instead of 1%

I tried to edit readerfrontlight.lua with another values but no any effects.

Can you help me please ?

DEVICE : KOBO LIBRA
GESTURE : 1 finger in the border of the screen. Tried with 2 fingers in the center : same result : 5% step
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See highlights on Kobo Clara HD

December 6, 2020, 1:04 pm
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I just installed KoReader and realize this is a noob question, but where can I see all of the highlighted sections I marked in an epub? I'd like to do this directly on my Kobo Clara HD, not on a connected labtop with KoHighlights.

Many thanks!!
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KoReader settings to optimize battery life

December 7, 2020, 12:20 am
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I run KoReader on my Kobo Clara HD and notice some, but not severe, battery drain. For instance, putting the Kobo in sleep mode over night drains the battery about 4%, reading an epub for an hour drains about 3% on average.

Are there specific settings or plugins I could optimize to improve battery life, for instance, possible settings about background scanning, choosing specific screensaver settings or disabling some features, etc.?

Many thanks for your inputs.
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Finding books by metadata

December 7, 2020, 12:50 pm
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I put my books in folders manually on my Kobo Clara HD without having Calibre do the synching. I see how I can find books by filename or Calibre metadata, but how could I find them with the metadata already stored in the files? All of the files have titles, subtitles, authors, descriptions, but the "find" functions on Koreader seem to ignore that, unless Calibre wrote that information on the device.

Does anyone have a (simple) solution for finding and sorting books easily by the embedded book metadata on Koreader?
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Clean up tags

December 9, 2020, 10:44 pm
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I have a Calibre library with about 2,000 epubs organized with roughly 15 bookshelves and an additional 20 tags. I'm putting these files on my Kobo Clara HD and access them with KoReader.

When I use Calibre's "update cached metadata on device" and use KoReader to search by Calibre metadata and browse tags, I see thousands of tags except my own tags and bookshelves. Some of the additional tags read for instance (1), 181, history, etc. and seem to be the tags embedded in the epubs themselves.

With the Calibre's "configure this device", how can make only my own tags visible in KoReader?
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Problem with kosync

December 11, 2020, 8:55 am
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Hello, I'm looking for a way to sync my koreader devices.
As far as I understand, there is no way to have a complete sync, but I have to sync each book, one by one. Is it correct?

Even so I have some issues: I have been able to register and push a few data from my JDRead t65s, but I can't pull them on my Pocketbook touch lux 3: koreader is logged in, try to pull but disconnect the wifi and ask to turn it on again, with no effect.

Any help would be very appreciated.
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Updating Calibre metadata

December 11, 2020, 10:26 am
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Finally seeing the light with metadata, Calibre and Koreader, many thanks to all your inputs so far!

Some quirks still baffle me. For instance, in Calibre, I added tags to epubs that are already on the device, and I'd like to update just the metadata, so I can browse by tags on KoReader with the new metadata I added in Calibre.

Via Calibre, I update the cached metadata on the device, and the calibre.metadata file on the device updates (changed size and date), but after disconnecting from USB, KoReader doesn't recognize the new tags in the books that are already on the reader, just in new books I upload that contain the same tags.

I re-start the device and KoReader, but still, new tags don't show up. In the +Menu on KoReader, I update the cached metadata of all books (took 10 minutes for 2,000 books). Then I reconnect the device via USB and mount it in Calibre. The calibre.metadata file updates (just changes date, not size). I update the metadata again in Calibre and I disconnect the device again, but KoReader still shows the old tags.

Do I need to re-upload books when I change their tags or can I just refresh a cache on the device to make KoReader see the new tags in a more quick and easy way?
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Export bookmarks

December 12, 2020, 3:56 am
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Hi,
Is there any way to export bookmarks and notes of a book from KoReader?

Thank you in advance!
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Charging status when in sleep

December 13, 2020, 7:51 am
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Is there any settings to do in order to see charging status when Kobo with Koreader running is in sleep mode? I think somethings like in base system the visualize charging status.
Thanks
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KOreader doesn't see most PDFs and EPUBs on reMarkable tablet

December 15, 2020, 4:32 pm
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Hi, I just installed KOreader on both my Kobo and my reMarkable tablet (rM1) and I seem to have three doubts:

1. On the Kobo KOreader works perfectly, but on the rM it isn't recognizing any of the EPUBs and PDFs which were on the device before it was installed. (It does recognize one PDF I transferred over at the same time that I transferred the KOreader zip file.)

2. Maybe relatedly, I tried to download a Wikipedia page as EPUB from KOreader and it said it had no place to put the EPUB file?

3. Then I thought I'd open Calibre on my laptop and transfer some EPUBs over, but when I did, neither my Linux PC nor Calibre recognized the reMarkable.

I just started using Linux last week so the chance that I'm creating these problems through user error is still very high. Any ideas would be gratefully received.
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Change View Mode in config file

December 16, 2020, 12:22 am
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How can i set view mode from "continuous" to "page" as default for cbz files in config?
Looking at defaults.lua but cant seem to find it.
Should it be there but its not obvious to me, or its a config located in different place?

Edit:
Also would be nice to know where can "sort by" also be changed from a config file. Need to set it to "Sort by percent - unopened first"
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bookmarks and highlights-notes separation

December 16, 2020, 3:30 am
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Hi,
I think it would be practical if bookmarks were separated from highlights and notes in KOReader.
Could this change be made into a future firmware? I don't know to whom I should address this proposal. What do you think? Can anyone help?

Thanks!
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De-En and Fr-En dictionaries

December 16, 2020, 4:37 am
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Hi,
Does anybody have De-En or Fr-En dictionary for KOReader or knows where I can find them in the web?

Thanks!
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