{"id":12120,"date":"2024-12-09T18:27:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=12120"},"modified":"2024-12-09T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:27:36","slug":"farewell-buggy-software-welcome-koreader-plato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2024\/12\/09\/farewell-buggy-software-welcome-koreader-plato\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell buggy software! Welcome KOReader &amp; Plato!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since the native software of my Kobo aura is so buggy that <strong>always<\/strong> crash with certain EPUBs, after reaching a specific page I finally decided to follow the  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileread.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=314220\">One-Click Install Packages for KOReader &amp; Plato<\/a><\/strong>. I installed both <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/koreader\/koreader\">KOReader<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/baskerville\/plato\">Plato<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">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 &amp; Plato. I installed both KOReader and Plato. I started trying KOReader. Needless to say it works like a breeze, and as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2024\/12\/09\/farewell-buggy-software-welcome-koreader-plato\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[118,53,14],"tags":[323],"class_list":["post-12120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comparisons","category-proprietary-software","category-software-libero","tag-kobo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-39u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6686,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2020\/02\/23\/e-ink-book-readers\/","url_meta":{"origin":12120,"position":0},"title":"e-ink book readers","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2020-02-23","format":false,"excerpt":"As a society, we need an open source device for reading. 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