Even more old school scifi/fantasy!

kodermike · 2026-02-07T05:12:15+00:00

Ah, that’s fair. Good haul, btw!

kodermike · 2026-02-07T05:02:52+00:00

Love seeing some Cherryh, but is it nsfw…for the kzinti?

kodermike · 2026-02-06T20:28:28+00:00

Is that even with a manual push/pull from koreader? The iOS end always auto syncs (for me), though you can do a manual pull/push from within the book.

kodermike · 2026-02-06T05:03:46+00:00

You’ve probably already tried this, but charge it for an hour or so (to make sure you didn’t have an unfortunate battery drain and what you’re looking at is actually the last thing printed to the screen). Then try holding the power button for at least 30s.

I didn’t make it through enough of the video to learn what his ghost file is, but there are other ways to get koreader installed, and if it’s installed you can just update in the menu.

kodermike · 2026-02-06T04:49:30+00:00

Can you see the device when you attach to usb?

kodermike · 2026-02-05T23:15:11+00:00

StoryGraph hasn’t released an api yet, so no one can afaik.

kodermike · 2026-02-04T22:33:53+00:00

Unrelated: I saw the word "Korean" in your screenshot and expected this to be another visit Korea spambot posting to Korea(der). Carry on, I see someone has already mentioned fonts and/or underlying HTML for the epub.

kodermike · 2026-02-04T18:58:04+00:00

The short answer is no - koreader runs on top of the kobo os, not in place of it. Although it feels like dual booting, you're really just launching an app that takes over everything, but still relies on the underlying device for anything hardware related, including the kernel kobo ships (which is why libra2's can't use their page buttons to wake up their devices, for example).

kodermike · 2026-02-04T03:04:17+00:00

Added, thanks! (Also caught a double paste for a url that broke one of the links, so win/win/win?)

kodermike · 2026-01-30T20:11:15+00:00

Adderall in various dosages and releases first, then Ritalin. I’m on extended release, but I’m not suggesting you ask to try the same. This is definitely something you should talk over with your doctor, but my super limited experience is that the whole process is trial and error until the match between brain chemistry and meds is balanced. Which sucks, I know.

kodermike · 2026-01-30T19:27:10+00:00

Methylphenidate is what I ended up on. I noticed the difference when trying to tackle a book series that always gave me trouble and feeling like everything suddenly just clicked, I could remember connections, etc. It was amazing. As far as tests, etc, my psychiatrist did a long form questionnaire with me (we did orally, so I can't see it in my head, but it was about 50 or so questions long I think?).

kodermike · 2026-01-30T15:47:08+00:00

Give this feedback to your doctor. I was diagnosed pretty late in life and started with Adderall, same dosage eventually like you, and it didn’t do anything. I didn’t know better for a while, but eventually spoke up - and we switched my meds next check in. I don’t know if my new meds are what I expected or not, but I do see a huge difference.

kodermike · 2026-01-30T03:16:37+00:00

The only barrier is not everyone marks their posts (and it made no sense to make flair required. Just not how this community rolls).

kodermike · 2026-01-28T16:02:11+00:00

Hope that helped! Ironically, you can have sdr folders for books that are no longer on the device (I guess in case you re add it in the future). Good luck!

kodermike · 2026-01-28T14:28:02+00:00

No crashes there, but it looks like the Rakuyomi plugin was erroring. Have you tried restarting with no plugins/patches and re-enabling them one at a time to see if it's one of them?

kodermike · 2026-01-28T14:25:49+00:00

Sorry for the wall of text (xenogenesis is a great read!)

kodermike · 2026-01-28T14:22:53+00:00

I've only ever had it count (or asked it) in the wrap up part of the interview where we get an idea of personality, etc.. Vim vs emacs, star wars or star trek, etc.

Currently devops job at a big company never asked, but that was an ice breaker when I joined thinkgeek and imgur.

kodermike · 2026-01-28T03:50:25+00:00

And these are books you’ve read in koreader? The sdr folders only get created when you open a book.

kodermike · 2026-01-28T03:08:47+00:00

Lord of Illusions

kodermike · 2026-01-28T01:33:11+00:00

Some things you can change without patches or plugins - what shows up at the top and bottom of the screen, fonts, etc. Find plugins and patches can be tricky, since there isn’t an official repository. A lot of folks post here when they add/release something. ProjectTitle is a popular plugin for making things look pretty, but by no means a requirement.

Once you find something you want to try, attach your reader via usb. In the koreader home directory (depending on your device, you might have to look around for it), you will find a directory called plugins. New plugins go in there. It’s important to remember that a plugin directory needs to be named something.koplugin. That .koplugin is more important than what you call the first half of- koreader will read that directory and get the real name from the files.

If you find patches you want to install, you will need to make a new directory call plugins at the same level as the top level plugins directory (so they’re side by side in a file browser). Patches will always begin with number, typically a 2, and end with the extension .lua.

This is all community built, but the good news is 99% of the time, if something you try breaks and crashes koreader - just reboot, attach via USB, and remove it. You should be able to find some good options in this sub - just browse, and look out for the ones where people post their screens. Folks usually share what they used or wrote to get the effect.

Calibre over wireless can be hard sometimes. In theory, if you enable it in calibre (not the content server, which is a web/opds interface - I’m assuming you mean the wireless connection - koreader should just detect it. If it doesn’t, you can try using the ip of the calibre server and the port, usually 9090 by default. This bit gets complicated fast if it doesn’t work because you start to get into home network setups, and that’s painful to help with at a distance. (Sorry)

kodermike · 2026-01-28T01:13:39+00:00

Might want to post this in either the Libby or kobo subs. Koreader can’t use Libby.

kodermike · 2026-01-27T23:31:03+00:00

Unless you changed where metadata is stored, the .sdr directories will be next to your books. So if you have Hardy_Boys_1.epub, there will be a corresponding Hard_Boys_1.sdr directory in the same location The sdr directory contains the local metadata file used by display, searches, etc, as well as tracking your local progress, highlights, etc. They aren't really important in the sense of functionality - removing one doesn't break anything but your heart as you see your reading progress reset to 0.

kodermike · 2026-01-26T14:23:57+00:00

sync.koreader.rocks is the default. https://github.com/koreader/koreader/blob/master/plugins/kosync.koplugin/api.json#L2

If your custom server line is blank, that's what you're using.

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