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I have a jury-rigged system, as I use my 2-in-1 stylus-equipped Chromebook for most of my reading and annotating. It's not very elegant, or FOSSy, but it works
by HuShifang 7y ago
I have a jury-rigged system, as I use my 2-in-1 stylus-equipped Chromebook for most of my reading and annotating. It's not very elegant, or FOSSy, but it works reasonably well.
I basically use Dropbox as a back-end, using Autosync for Dropbox (fka Dropsync) [0] on Android and ChromeOS (and the vanilla Dropbox Linux desktop client on Kubuntu) to keep the files synchronized (storing them on SD cards on my phone and Chromebook). I have it automatically sync frequently, and the app automatically uploads local changes to the cloud.
For PDFs, syncing the highlights is of course trivial; as a reader, I use Okular on Linux and Xodo [1] on Android/ChromeOS. Xodo has more features -- I like using my Chromebook's stylus to scribble notes in the margins -- and everything ports well to Okular, and vice versa.
For EPUBs, I use Calibre on Linux and Moon+ Reader Pro [2] on Android / ChromeOS. In practice, though, I use the latter almost exclusively; it has a built-in Dropbox sync functionality [3], though I'm not sure the highlights etc. are accessible by other apps.
[0] https://metactrl.com/ https://metactrl.com/
[1] https://www.xodo.com/ https://www.xodo.com/
[2] https://moondownload.com/download.html https://moondownload.com/download.html
[3] https://raymondlamsk.blogspot.com/2018/03/moon-reader-how-to-sync-bookmark-bet-devices.html?m=1 https://raymondlamsk.blogspot.com/2018/03/moon-reader-how-to....
- burtonator 7y agoI'm working on having Polar work with iPad (iOS and Android) and I have an iPad and REALLY want it to support stylus input. It's so so so much easier!
- HuShifang 7y agoThat would be very appealing to me. (Not sure what you have in mind, but it could also serve as a backdoor into freehand note capability, as it does in Xodo -- you just make your stylus input on a blank PDF page...)
- skillachie 7y agoYour setup sounds ideal for BookFusion. Would love to get your feedback. BookFusion currently allows you to easily upload,organize and sync your eBooks across Android, iOS and Desktop(via Web). All your highlights, bookmarks, notes and reading progress will always be synced. More at: https://www.bookfusion.com/reading https://www.bookfusion.com/reading Calibre plugin: https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/calibre https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/calibre There are some gaps and features that are missing but they all will be filled with our new release in Q3 2020.
- Brave-Steak 7y agoThis looks interesting. Is stylus-support (iOS and Android) planned? Free-form marking and writing notes directly on an ebook (in whatever format) would be awesome.