I wanna buy an ebook reader but i don’t want any amazon or other companies shit in there, just something i can connect to my pc, pass ebooks in different formats into it and read.

  • the16bitgamer@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I have a Nova 3 Color and 2 like books.

    The likebooks never got OS updates, but the Nova got updates, but they were updating the default apps.

    I don’t like moonreader, as I found it to be a battery hog. KOReader is my favourite and its the default reader (or a skin of it is)

    By bloat I am referring to the Onyx store which is on my home screen and is not removable.

    With that said my Nova is my preferred eReader, especially when I kill the WiFi. 2+ week battery life FTW

    • greenskye@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s fair. Using moon reader makes the library and store tabs useless. I have the store ‘disabled’ but the tab remains. Moon reader doesn’t like it when I open books via the library tab (creates a duplicate) so I stopped using it. Personally I rarely need to exit the moon reader app, so the base UI really doesn’t impact me much.

      Haven’t noticed moon reader hogging the battery. I keep Wi-Fi and Bluetooth off and use a decent amount of backlight and still get a couple of weeks out of it. Which is so much better than the 2-4 days my oasis got.

      Part of the reason I love mine is that it supports TTS so I can create my own audiobooks. Currently using Google wavenet to read books to me. This is nice for car rides especially cause I read a lot of books that will never get audio book versions (translated Chinese cultural cultivation fantasy)