Ben TaskerMar 1

New #Documentation: Installing #KOReader onto a #Kobo

Having gone to the effort of setting up Booklore, I realised that its Kobosync was unable to send PDFs to the Kobo :(

This post talks about installing KOReader onto the Kobo so that #ebooks (and PDFs) can be pulled using OPDS (opening up access to things like Project Gutenberg in the process)

It also goes through installing #NickelMenu so that menu items can be customised

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/general/setting-up-koreader-on-a-kobo.html

Installing KOReader onto a Kobo

Short post detailing how to install KOReader onto a Kobo, providing the means to wirelessly sync PDFs to and from the device as you would with standard ebooks

www.bentasker.co.uk
Show threadJames
@ben Hi, I was going to comment that there had been some huge drama regarding Booklore on Reddit in the last week which the main developer wasn't handling too well. I just went to find the link and there's this: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rvmpnv/booklore_is_gone/
From a quick skim it looks like it has been forked, but you might want to have a look.
Mar 17 at 12:20pmWeb
Show threadJames6d ago
@ben If you don't want to visit Reddit, after a big stooshie mainly regarding AI coding, which got quite heated, with much throwing the toys out of the pram and wiping the Discord it looks like the github repo has been also been nuked.
Show threadBen Tasker6d ago

@james Yup, someone else pinged me earlier too - I'd completely missed it all :(

It does add up though, I commented somewhere recently to say I was a bit worried by Booklore's rapid release cadence and frequent introduction of new bugs - I did think AI tooling was probably enabling that.

It's unfortunate to lose it as a project, but I think, although I'll keep an eye on the fork, I'll probably head to calibre-web next

Show threadJames6d ago
@ben Yeah, somewhere buried deep in a massive pile-on there were glimmers of an interesting debate around AI 'assisted' coding Vs vibe coding, open source licensing etc etc. But it was buried _deep_.
I liked Booklore, but I use an ancient tablet as an ebook reader and having a few folders on Nextcloud probably does all I need.