Readest - Open source, cross-platform ereader
Hey all!
I just came across this a few minutes ago—looks amazing. It’s the only application of its kind I’ve seen that includes text-to-speech out of the box!
https://www.readest.com/Open linkView original on lemmy.ml
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I'm sure a lot of people don't mind, but I'm going to avoid it due to its collection of usage data in the privacy policy. Really wish this didn't exist in apps that just format the contents of a file.
Especially geolocation data...
So apparently you need to sign up for Sync feature, and the Sync server is not self-hostable…
It looked to me to be optional, but yeah I was curious about that too…
Not really related to this, but Kotatsu, a manga reading app, let's you selfhost the sync server and I find that amazing.
Important to note, looks like the server component is not self-hostable (and the client doesn't E2E encrypt).
This seems to be a Foliate fork. I have a blurry font problem with Foliate and couldn't use it for a while, but this one doesn't have that bug. Thanks for sharing.
Is Foliate available for android?
I don't think so. This one has Android build but it seems to be in alpha stage.
Another privacy nightmare.
This was recently packaged in nixpkgs. FWIW.
Alternatively there is BookStory for Android
I would recommend Librera FD for android. BookStory is still very early in development.
but it looks and feels so much better
It has a smoother UI but idk if it's a nornal ebook reader. It scrolls horizontally, no page turning, no txt to speech, not much font settings, no sync and so many more basic features. I haven't checked it recently so idk how many of these were added but the main thing is it looks and feels like tachiyomi fork for manga, idk how good it can be for book reading.
Cool! Just make such proposal:
It would be awesome to introduce something like animation of page-flipping, small shadows and possibility to list pages "taking them by angles" like you can do it in Demo or Uploading on https://heyzine.com/
Thanks for Readest :) 👍
Is your kindle updated to the latest version? I jailbroke mine and now I use Koreader exclusively.
Likewise. I am loving koreader
Take a look at Kavita for selfhosting bools!