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I know of plato, but haven't used it before. Do you have experience using it? / are you able to compare it with koreader?
by _emacsomancer_ 7y ago
I know of plato, but haven't used it before. Do you have experience using it? / are you able to compare it with koreader?
- therein 7y agoI haven't used it as my primary driver but tested releases of it on my Remarkable Tablet. As far as my experience went, it was pleasant and pretty feature complete, at least as an ePUB, DJVU and PDF document reader.
- _emacsomancer_ 7y agoOk, I installed it (it just sideloads like Koreader, so it doesn't 'overwrite' anything) to try it out. It worked fine overall, but: 1) It took a lot longer to load than Koreader (so much so that I thought the reader had frozen) 2) I couldn't figure out how to have it trim PDF whitespace as tightly as Koreader does, which is important for being able to reasonably read pdf files. 3) I added additional fonts into its font directory (and I noticed that some other fonts were already there), but for epubs I couldn't figure out how to change the font from Libertinus Serif. 4) It's not clear that it has all of the advanced font features regarding kerning & ligatures that Koreader has added. (I'm not sure what's enabled by default in terms of kerning/ligatures since I couldn't change to a font that I'm more familiar with.) 5) It generally seems to have fewer features than Koreader. But: 6) Visually, the interface is cleaner-looking than Koreader's. And it's a simpler (and perhaps easier/more intuitive) interface than Koreader's. So perhaps I'd recommend it for someone who wanted something more basic/easier, but at this point I'll stick with Koreader.