Kobo – Paolo Redaelli

Farewell buggy software! Welcome KOReader & Plato!

Paolo Redaelli — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:27:36 +0000

Since the native software of my Kobo aura is so buggy that always crash with certain EPUBs, after reaching a specific page I finally decided to follow the One-Click Install Packages for KOReader & Plato. I installed both KOReader and Plato.

I started trying KOReader. Needless to say it works like a breeze, and as far as I can tell it is quite faster that the native, buggy, crashing KOBO Reader

How to wirelessly send docs and e-books to your Kobo

Paolo Redaelli — Sun, 26 May 2024 16:05:17 +0000

As we are a family of avid readers, having the luck of having a public library very near our house, we also ended up having several Kobo ebook readers.

I’m a life-long user of free-as-in-freedom software and I like to meddle with “low level” thingies but I can’t ask my daughters and wife to do the same even if they are quite smart themselves (we do not have Windows or MacOS or iOS running here, just Gnu-Linux and Android), so today I asked on the Fediverse

“How to Wirelessly Send Docs and E-Books to Your #Kindle“
Is it possible with #Kobo?
See https://mastodon.uno/@paoloredaelli/112506334973250537

György Paksi kindly and quickly answered me to look at send.djazz.se ¹ which in turn uses https://github.com/daniel-j/send2ereader and https://github.com/pgaskin/kepubify. I shiftly copied that git repositories, now I “only” have to find some time to set it up.

1 that now seems to be offline

NickelMenu for your Kobo

Paolo Redaelli — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 20:15:20 +0000

NickelMenu is not a replacement for the “closed” environment of Kobo but it is a step in the right direction…