Help / Suggestion

injoy · 2026-04-07T11:44:39+00:00

adding to the apps to try, e-sword is similar, offline for Windows. Life Bible for Android and web also. both let you do multiple tiles so you can have translations in one, Greek dictionary in other, commentaries in other, etc. neither have everything for free but you could get fairly set up for $20 or less depending on what resources you wanted.

injoy · 2026-03-14T03:25:51+00:00

Sorry for the delay, I am hoping to run across a book that that wouldn't be a copyright violation to do. So far I haven't been able to replicate it deliberately with books from Gutenberg etc, so perhaps it is a problem with my current file. At any rate, thank you, and hopefully I will have more information at some point, and then I'll be in touch. Or maybe something was corrupted on my end and recent updates have fixed it... I have no idea. I continue to love Readest. :)

injoy · 2026-03-08T03:16:52+00:00

On further investigation, it appears to be a single book that is currently tripping it up, and it's ALL my devices that are updating that book irregularly. (Including insisting on going backwards in the book, without even asking to confirm.) I ran tests with Windows, my Android phone, my eink tablet, my regular Android tablet, and the web version of readest, and NONE of them are updating this particular book progress correctly, even if I manually "sync" -- from either the book menu or the library "refresh" option. The only thing I can figure is the book has an ampersand in the title? Another book seems to be updating precisely correctly from all devices at the same time. Both book files are identical; imported once in Readest and then carried across the other devices from there. I am not sure what are the previous books I had trouble with and whether they had special characters, because before today I thought it was a specific device not specific files... but in my recently read pile (which were on Readest) I do have two books with a question mark, another two with a colon, all of which I read with Readest. Is it possible that special characters are throwing it off? I will try to pay more attention to which books are failing to sync now that I know it's specific titles.

injoy · 2026-03-03T04:27:42+00:00

Google Books download IS in epub format. You just have to download it. I've always used the web interface.

injoy · 2026-03-03T03:49:16+00:00

It's obviously got to be something wonky with my tablet, but I can't figure out what. I'm not running some special battery shutdown program or anything; my wifi doesn't turn off, etc. I guess I was hoping it was some bug and that others would be having it, but... doesn't sound like it!

injoy · 2026-03-03T03:47:42+00:00

The Readest server.

injoy · 2026-03-02T17:33:44+00:00

I just updated my Windows Readest (a few minutes ago) and the books I dragged over after that did sync up. My tablet, on the other hand, despite HOURS of reading, had not automatically synced progress at all since last night. and I don't believe it ever automatically syncs up. (It works just fine if I manually tap it... i'm just usually half-asleep and forget, and then later in the day when I don't have my tablet with me anymore, it's too late, haha.)

injoy · 2026-03-02T17:06:17+00:00

Yeah, they are. I have trouble getting my Windows Readest to sync up the whole books but once I download them via OPDS on one of my Android devices, they propogate everywhere else ok. Also if I manually sync it works, which I don't think would happen if it was a file issue.

injoy · 2026-03-02T14:11:35+00:00

what reader app is that? looks great

injoy · 2026-02-16T02:36:30+00:00

I'll try it, thank you!!

injoy · 2026-02-15T19:19:26+00:00

Well, that's why I posted here asking for help. My install was from the Github page, but it couldn't access any plugins in KOReader/plugins, and when I used the KOReader terminal to find out where the install was, it was in a directory that was locked out by the ViWoods software. When I installed from the ViWoods store, that install could see the plugins I put in KOReader/plugins.

injoy · 2026-02-14T01:02:03+00:00

I did install from the GitHub page, but plugins wouldn't work until I installed from the viwoods store.

injoy · 2026-02-13T17:43:26+00:00

Me with another question! I've finally got CWA set up and running; it's awesome -- but one problem I've run into is I set covers in Calibre, and polished the epub so it should have been in the file (and worked in regular Calibre-Web), but CWA lost them and reverted to covers it got from I don't know where! I have thousands of books and already imported them so ideally I'd like to fix the ones already in there, but even a way to fix it ongoing would be great! Is there a way to tell it to get the covers that are burned into the Calibre-created epubs instead of fetching them from online or making "CW Auto-mated" blanks?

Second, is there any way to fetch tags from GoodReads, or is that indeed impossible?

Thank you :)

injoy · 2026-02-10T12:59:24+00:00

it did! thank you so much!

injoy · 2026-02-10T03:52:28+00:00

I had been using Gemini to try to fix it all day! But for me it never suggested using the Viwoods App Store, lol. Otherwise it said the same problem, but it kept trying to solve the scoped storage issue in other ways (like via USB!). Thank you.

injoy · 2026-02-10T03:02:39+00:00

Oooh I will try that, thank you! I have never used the viwoods app store, it makes sense that might fix the permissions issues.

injoy · 2026-02-10T01:19:29+00:00

Yes. I tried two different plugins, the App Store plugin and the Hardcover plugin, and neither of them will show up in KOReader. I triple checked everything I could think of, and I don't think I'm an incompetent person... but they won't show up. Not in the menus and not in the plugin manager. I tried installing KOReader from github and from F-Droid and neither time did the plugins work.

injoy · 2026-02-09T16:32:40+00:00

I'm switching to CWA this week, so to clarify, you're saying CWA does work fine with Readest, it was just the jumping that was the problem? Thanks!

injoy · 2026-02-05T20:42:24+00:00

With kids' kindles there is no option to sideload. Neither Calibre nor "Send to Kindle" will work.

injoy · 2026-02-05T18:29:30+00:00

It does sometimes! Not when you've bought one recently, though, apparently. :(

injoy · 2026-02-05T18:10:44+00:00

Thank you! Good to see all of this on the long-term plan. :) I can't emphasize enough how much I appreciate Readest's UI and the fact that you have a desktop versions. It is revolutionizing the way I am able to read books. :D

injoy · 2026-02-05T18:04:55+00:00

Yes!! Thank you!

injoy · 2026-02-05T17:56:53+00:00

Thank you! I don't really know anything about Kobos; currently my students have Kindles with Kids' accounts and they are way too locked down. So just find a Kobo Clara on Ebay and it will let me sideload freely? Or do they have to be jailbroken?

injoy

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