AbsoluteChicagoDogRecommend me an eink reader that I can transfer files to from my phone
Kobo ereaders are great, when I’m on trips I download epub files on my phone, plug the ereader to my phone via USB, copy-paste the books and it just works. No need to install anything on the Kobo.
I got a kobo recently and noticed bad performance with some epubs, very slow loading times and page flips. If I convert the to kepub with calibre (requires a plugin) then it’s super fast but I don’t think there is calibre for phones.
It’s probably make able though. Looks like calibre just uses python and there are a couple options for running python on Android.
Seems doable to make an app with the embedded python requirements and then pass a file to convert. Might be tricky with file system access since Android can get a bit anal about reading from some dirs… But you should be good read/write to/from downloads or documents.
I never had performance issues, but I don’t read huge books or anything. There seem to be some online converters, but I agree that is not the most ergonomic. Maybe calibre-web could also do the job, with you connecting to it through your phone’s browser.
Never heard about the kepub format but I’ll look into it, sounds cool.
Thanks for the links!
I had trouble with a couple fan made books. Usually it comes from the .epub being set up improperly, so that the chapters are not set properly, causing it to reload the whole book every page turn.
Havn’t run into it with any purchessed .epubs
I thought so too, the main problem I found mentioned online is a file with only one chapter for the whole book. But mine was fine and was an official publication. I even tried a repair tool to no avail. Converting did the trick though.