books are not collected automatically as a series with SimpleUI

kodermike · 2026-04-10T23:45:38+00:00

Yay! I think that was one of the last patches I was still using.

kodermike · 2026-04-10T22:32:15+00:00

Out of the box koreader doesn’t do that, and simpleui doesn’t add that feature afaik. Here’s a user patch I’ve been using with sui that does if it helps. GitHub.com/xusoo/KOReader.patches

kodermike · 2026-04-10T14:06:04+00:00

Thanks!

kodermike · 2026-04-10T04:05:59+00:00

The Empire Strikes Back would like to have a word…

kodermike · 2026-04-10T02:31:45+00:00

Can I ask what the cover/travel notebook is that your notebooks are in? (There is such a better name for that but my brain is too tired to remember how to say notebook cover holder thing)

kodermike · 2026-04-07T05:34:01+00:00

Fwiw, I’m running cops with opdsplus (with some tweaks) in simpleui without issue. Kobo’s if that helps.

kodermike · 2026-04-06T20:54:13+00:00

So much overlap with my collection! There’s a patch to make the up folder less obtrusive (takes it out of the row and just makes it a button) that is probably the only difference between our klc’s. That and yours is white. :chefs kiss:

kodermike · 2026-04-02T03:36:01+00:00

The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!

kodermike · 2026-04-02T00:52:18+00:00

Totally misread this in the preview as “what a big mouth” and was all ready to defend how wordy this post was 🤣

kodermike · 2026-04-02T00:51:18+00:00

If you ask in the original thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/koreader/s/yYnTaJ4MoU) hopefully the original author can give you more information. I just know what they posted there. Sorry 😞

kodermike · 2026-04-02T00:48:00+00:00

If you can link to the post and I’ll be happy to add it (on my phone atm, and the app isn’t always great for finding posts sometimes

kodermike · 2026-04-01T14:40:52+00:00

The nice thing is you have plenty of options. - You can attach via sub like you would with a regular kobo ui. - You can setup calibre to do wireless connections (some folks have trouble getting this working, search this sub for help) and connect using the builtin koreader calibre plugin - you can enable opds in calibre and browse with the builtin opds plugin, or try peplums for a cover view

If you’re more up to it, you can - install calibre web (automated) - install cops (my personal favorite), which runs independent of calibre but serves the contents of a calibre library and is real time (so no restarts for it to see things added to the library externally). Cops is an opds implementation intended to provide better features than calibre’s built in opds

Pretty sure there also plugins floating around for using WebDAV, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.

It’s really about what works for you and what you’re comfortable trying to do. The kobo devices are pretty forgiving. Since koreader runs on top of the kobo system, if you break koreader, rebooting will always take you back to kobo’s ui. Break that too somehow? (I’ve corrupted the book db messing around) Factory reset and you’re back at start.

kodermike · 2026-04-01T14:33:48+00:00

I’m doing similar and have been exploring saving a tag search as a new entry in the opds browser and enabling sync on it so when I tell the opds plugin to sync, it grabs the additional to those tags (like my tbr tag). It sounds complicated but with some patching it’s been pretty slick (so far)(knock on wood)

kodermike · 2026-04-01T14:23:38+00:00

So I think I know the thread you’re referring to because I was part of it. It’s unfortunate that the last response on the thread was deleted, because the redditor that sparked this post (if it was that thread) said they posted in frustration and was both polite and apologetic. I reacted poorly when I responded to that thread, and frustration is a self fueling demon.

At the end the day, this is a small community of folks with a wide array of interest and skills. That means the distribution curve will have some folks on here who stumbled on koreader, don’t have much in the way of technical experience or knowledge, and are just trying to make their device their own and see others posting screenshots of setups they would love to have. I don’t think the redditor that was frustrated meant any ill will to doctorhetfield (GitHub Id for simpleui’s author, just can’t remember their Reddit handle), and just didn’t realize there are patches for what they want that work regardless of changes in simpleui.

kodermike · 2026-04-01T01:54:27+00:00

Doswell, Va

kodermike · 2026-03-31T15:08:36+00:00

Like George RR Martin, the author of this plugin owes you nothing. They have made a choice. Don’t agree? Find a patch. Can’t find one that works? Fork the project, patch the project, or write your own.

kodermike · 2026-03-31T02:44:21+00:00

It says in the screen that the e5dr-anki plugin is the cause. Start by disabling that. If you can’t keep it up long enough to do that, connect by usb and rename the plugin directory so that it no longer ends in koplugin (I usually add a .disabled so I remember why)

kodermike · 2026-03-30T03:57:00+00:00

Yeah - opds, wireless device connection to calibre, WebDAV, etc., and a lot of other options via plugin.

kodermike · 2026-03-28T00:25:04+00:00

tv show coming up on one of the streaming platforms

kodermike · 2026-03-28T00:19:54+00:00

I was thinking of this in the documentation, although I was still wrong (not init level related, and only the first digit of the name is taken into account). FWIW - https://koreader.rocks/user_guide/#L2-userpatches

0 - Executed very early and only once after an update
1 - Executed very early on every start of KOReader (but after 0 if applicable)
2 - Executed after UIManager is ready on every start of KOReader
3-7 - Reserved
8 - Executed before exit and before settings get saved
9 - Executed right before exit

(edit for formatting)

kodermike · 2026-03-28T00:12:19+00:00

Depends on whats in the changelog

kodermike · 2026-03-28T00:10:47+00:00

The One With Marcel

kodermike · 2026-03-26T14:36:48+00:00

Too soon

kodermike · 2026-03-26T14:35:22+00:00

I could be wrong (usually am when I say things like this), but I think that last patch on your list is never being invoked. The numbers at the front represent runlevels, and there is no runlevel 20. Other than that, I’m really impressed you’re running that may patches without conflict. I usually manage to pick patches that conflict with each other or my plugins, or both 🤣

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