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- Better and faster UI. I always thought the Kindle was just slow, nope, it's just really bad software - Customise any/everything. Font size, line spacing, par

- Better and faster UI. I always thought the Kindle was just slow, nope, it's just really bad software - Customise any/everything. Font size, line spacing, paragraph spacing, margins, header/footer content, the list goes on - Ability to use things like BookOrbit (or alternatives) to manage your books and sync your progress/stats. - LLM-integration through plugins like KOAssistant, highlight a word/phrase/passage to get it explained to you. This was invaluable for me when reading through a series from the 1950's about the late 1700's, lots of phrases I'd never heard. Many I could grasp the meaning from context but it was way more fun to hear the "why" behind the phrase. Same with historical events that I am less knowledgeable about than I wish. Let's me stay "in the book" instead of picking up my phone. - Full control, some people don't care/need this but I love being able to SSH into my Kindle and do whatever I want. I love having my entire book reading experience end-to-end be fully open source and self-hosted.

nonninz 3mo ago
Thanks for the BookOrbit hint. Seems very interesting. I see it supports audiobooks and ebooks. Do you know if there is any way for keeping sync between an audiobook and ebook?
- joshstrange 3mo ago
  It does not have any sort of "whispersync" but, ironically?, I feel like whispersync could be recreated with things like Whisper and parsing the epub/whatever to line up progress. BookOrbit is in active development from what I can see (I'm not connected to the project, just a happy user) and it wouldn't surprise me if that was a feature in the future. It's something I've mulled over building for a while (even before Whisper). For my Audiobooks I don't use BookOrbit because my setup is: - Buy on Audible - Rip DRM off - Add to Plex - Use Prologue (iOS only) to listen And I freaking love that setup so I'm not looking to replace it currently.
  - jangxa 3mo ago
    How do you rip the drm off audible? Id love to free my audioooks.
  - realtimeuzer 2mo ago
    if your on iphone or ipad witbound basically does what whispersync does but its your m4b and epub files
CWuestefeld 3mo ago
Ability to use things like BookOrbit (or alternatives) to manage your books and sync your progress/stats I discovered BookOrbit about two months ago. I think that it, together with the KOReader plugin that exposes the remote BO UI, may turn out to be a game changer in how I organize and access my ebook repository.
- joshstrange 3mo ago
  Same here, I jailbroke my kindle just 1-2 months ago (when the PW5 JB came out) and I had been using BookOrbit for only a few weeks before then. Since then I've read over 15 books and been loving BookOrbit and KOReader.

nonninz 3mo ago

Thanks for the BookOrbit hint. Seems very interesting. I see it supports audiobooks and ebooks. Do you know if there is any way for keeping sync between an audiobook and ebook?

joshstrange 3mo ago
It does not have any sort of "whispersync" but, ironically?, I feel like whispersync could be recreated with things like Whisper and parsing the epub/whatever to line up progress. BookOrbit is in active development from what I can see (I'm not connected to the project, just a happy user) and it wouldn't surprise me if that was a feature in the future. It's something I've mulled over building for a while (even before Whisper). For my Audiobooks I don't use BookOrbit because my setup is: - Buy on Audible - Rip DRM off - Add to Plex - Use Prologue (iOS only) to listen And I freaking love that setup so I'm not looking to replace it currently.
- jangxa 3mo ago
  How do you rip the drm off audible? Id love to free my audioooks.
- realtimeuzer 2mo ago
  if your on iphone or ipad witbound basically does what whispersync does but its your m4b and epub files

CWuestefeld 3mo ago

Ability to use things like BookOrbit (or alternatives) to manage your books and sync your progress/stats I discovered BookOrbit about two months ago. I think that it, together with the KOReader plugin that exposes the remote BO UI, may turn out to be a game changer in how I organize and access my ebook repository.

joshstrange 3mo ago
Same here, I jailbroke my kindle just 1-2 months ago (when the PW5 JB came out) and I had been using BookOrbit for only a few weeks before then. Since then I've read over 15 books and been loving BookOrbit and KOReader.