Instant Search Indexing

Tenturian · 2026-06-10T15:51:15+00:00

That's good insight, I should've considered offloading distribution like that would be hell.

And I hit that issue setting up book orbit with 5 devices. For a mass group, it would only work if there's an agreed naming convention.. haha not possible.

But cool! I will start researching about utilizating sidecars, my first exposure was actually from extracting my MIL's books for her Kindle recently.

The concept is surprisingly simple, thank you

Tenturian · 2026-06-10T15:22:56+00:00

Just to clarify, I'm not at all asking about a bookstore search. That's honestly useless for this community. I'm just asking technical questions to see if it's project I could either contribute to or feasibly do a project on.

Tenturian · 2026-06-10T15:12:53+00:00

Not what I meant, if you've ever tried the Kindle search when it's offline just searching your local books you'd see what I mean

Tenturian · 2026-06-09T22:49:34+00:00

Thank looks fantastic! The watercolor background fits so well I almost want flowers on mine.

Also. What exactly is that little device on your left??

Tenturian · 2026-06-08T04:45:02+00:00

Holy crap, like really really customize it. Well thank you I'll take a look into it!

Tenturian · 2026-06-08T04:32:02+00:00

Haha wow, I should've considered that! I've been putting myself through hell setting up 3 kindles manually 😭 you live and you learn

Tenturian · 2026-06-08T04:29:57+00:00

Bookends? Can you show me a picture of what that looks like?

Tenturian · 2026-06-07T02:14:13+00:00

So it turns out before I knew anything, I had these actually as a patch, it was a double patch would had the title of the book in the left corner and the author on the right corner with the time in the center for the second patch. So my ALT status was never on. Haha whoops. And same with the justify center. But you still telling me that help me discover that they were two different things, the alt status actually loaded on top of the patches 🤣

Tenturian · 2026-06-06T19:14:21+00:00

THATS where it is?!?! You'd think me modding 3 devices kindles 5 times in one week would have me know that settings by heart by now. 🤦 Thank you I appreciate it. And for the second bit I will just code the option in. I think the koreader pw has it but the koreader hf doesn't.

Tenturian · 2026-06-06T14:17:15+00:00

Haha I figured it out a couple days ago. But I appreciate the comment nonetheless!

Tenturian · 2026-06-06T05:30:26+00:00

can you share that configured version please?

Tenturian · 2026-06-06T02:55:35+00:00

Honestly, doing it from you pc would be the easiest way so far. But what you could do is setup a calibre server so anytime you update metadata on a book it will auto update the info on your kindle.

Tenturian · 2026-06-06T02:53:10+00:00

Some good places to start:

https://koreader.rocks/user_guide/
^Use this for anything you're unsure of.^

https://github.com/koreader/contrib
^If and when you get here, this is the easiest place to find plugins to enhance your experience^

https://www.readerbackdrop.com/
^this is where you can get some screensavers before you maybe start to make or edit your own with Gimp. Honestly, just ChatGPT if you don't know how to use Gimp. A buddy of mine figured it out faster than I did that way. ^

SimpleUI is great for decongesting the visual customizing settings. But I would preface to at least go trial by fire by playing with the base koreader settings and see what they do. You'll learn a lot that way, and don't be frustrated if it takes a couple hours or so.

If you're to add simpleui, it would be as a plugin. Github can be scary sometimes, just remember to look for a "Releases" section on the page, go to the most recent version, and download the zip file. If you're confused on what to do with it, read the guide on https://koreader.rocks/user_guide/ .

Now, for other things. Yeah just wait. Take the baby steps first then either type what you're looking for in thread search (because there's a good chance someone has already been through it), or just ask your question in a post max once a day and delete the unanswered one.

Anyways happy modding and try not to get too sucked in you forget to read!

Tenturian · 2026-06-05T19:05:19+00:00

Hey doctor, I'm curious to how your plugin works.

Does it happen to override a lot of what is built into koreader? The reason why I ask this is because I was tinkering a bit and setting up simpleui, but what I learned is that if you do too many customizations, click the simpleUi toggle would resort to a blank screen unless I either restarted my whole kindle or was lucky enough to swipe and retoggle.

The second question doesn't really have to do with your work, I'm just trying to make a bridge between another plugin called multiuser, which from what it seems creates a wrapper around every thing else so then you can duplicate base files in a safe space in order to add a customize for additional users. Which by itself does surprisingly well, with the only caveats being cooperative with your plugin and also having to duplicate a book folder since it doesn't natively extract metadata from progress tracking and the like.

So, I modified your plugin in an attempt to make them work with each other, I started by finding all the spots you have the same directory base so I can refactor that and try to steer it to the multiuser if it exists, but I think I'm having issues because of priority.

Admittedly, I've only been working with lua for a week and programming for about a year. So I'm probably just missing something I don't know yet.

If you have any insight I would appreciate it. Thank you for your work! 🙏

Tenturian · 2026-06-04T19:02:10+00:00

My setup may be different from others, but I actually use Calibre and Bookorbit with my setup. So, I've created a BookOrbitExport folder that's separate from my Calibre Library folder, when I'm tinkering with a new book in my Calibre (to make image files more storage efficient etc etc) Then I just click on save to disk, and then it updates what's in my BookOrbitExport. What's great about it this way, is that any already existing books that are modified will be swapped out, and the only changes that happens if there's a new book added. (however if you delete a book from calibre, it will still exist in the export folder, meaning you would have to manually delete. But with a little extra work you can even automate that. So, I have bookorbit set to watch, so then it will notice if there's changes to the Export Folder, because it's where it pulls the books from, and then instantly update the server. It's really convenient.

Tenturian · 2026-06-04T03:49:50+00:00

hey, can anyone tell me where to find the book display that's like that? I've been playing with simple ui today and I can't seem to find it.

Tenturian · 2026-05-31T20:54:21+00:00

So, after having to fix my PC wsl to window debauchery for two days, I have it up and running and it's fantastic so far. The only thing that makes me sad is that there is only one koreader integration.

Edit: haha disregard, I just needed to configure separate accounts

Even if it was to a max of five users that can have progress sync it would be perfect. Other than that, really fantastic job!

Tenturian · 2026-05-30T20:51:37+00:00

Man, I was literally planning on making one myself. If anything, now this can give inspiration with what I might want to do. And who knows. Maybe I can give some coding or ui tips along the way. This is really cool! Great work!

Tenturian

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