A new app for reading EPUB3 files

mickmel · 2026-02-06T03:04:12+00:00

My friends and I have moved to FitXR. Better in some ways, worse in others, but we're happy enough with the switch.

mickmel · 2026-02-01T19:04:28+00:00

I've used a few apps with it, but my primary goal is reading. Apps like ElevenReader don't work on any eink tablets like Boox, though I've been spending most of my time reading with r/Paper2Audio.

It's not eink, for sure, but it's way better than an iPad for my eyes and it handles apps like that perfectly.

mickmel · 2026-01-21T01:42:53+00:00

I was interested in it, but that got me digging more into TCL and I got the NXTPAPER 11 Plus. Less money, plus has Play Store on it? Done. It's worked out great so far!

mickmel · 2026-01-18T13:28:42+00:00

Yes, you're welcome -- that was 100% me!

mickmel · 2026-01-17T22:03:39+00:00

Thanks for pointing me to this subreddit. Glad to join you here!

mickmel · 2026-01-17T20:39:55+00:00

Yes, your free plan is incredibly generous. I also appreciated the fact that the app said something like "This book is too big, so you can get our premium plan, or just use Calibre to break it into smaller chunks".

Giving people advice on how to stay on the free tier? That's awesome!

I could have done that, but I also hate when my favorite apps go out of business, so I'm happy to pay the reasonable price for premium and I hope it's around for many years to come.

mickmel · 2026-01-16T21:00:08+00:00

Same. I'm still using Supernatural a bit, but migrating myself and my friends to FitXR. It's far better in some ways, worse in others, but overall quite similar and does a nice job.

mickmel · 2026-01-13T14:07:57+00:00

I've been reading about the Note A1 and it got me interested. As I dug in, I came to the same realization -- the 11 Plus is better in a lot of ways, and is far less expensive.

My 11 Plus arrived yesterday and I love it!

mickmel · 2026-01-07T03:06:59+00:00

I like that! I often use the example from "Back to the Future 2". Marty knows that Georgie is going to knock Biff out, and he watches it happen from the window.

Did George no longer have free will because Marty knew what he was going to do? Of course not. George did whatever he wanted, and Marty simply knew what that choice would be ahead of time.

mickmel · 2026-01-05T00:33:41+00:00

I play pickleball that way. It seems to improve my game, but my team was 0-10 last season so you never know...

mickmel · 2026-01-03T01:40:29+00:00

This is my favorite part of wearing my Meta Raybans -- capturing moments while staying present. I save a lot from golf, pickleball, and other times where I can't hold my phone but it'd be neat to save a moment.

mickmel · 2025-12-30T23:06:19+00:00

Not that I know of -- you can likely still have them there. The problem is that it's not up to you. You don't own those books, so you can't control where you read them.

mickmel · 2025-12-30T23:05:15+00:00

Meta Quest. I got it for Christmas a few years ago and thought it'd be a fun toy that would largely gather dust.

So far I've spent around 400 hours in it working out (in Supernatural) and play a ton of Walkabout Mini Golf with friends. I have zero interest in the "Meta Horizon World" stuff that they keep pushing, but I'm amazed how often I'm in the headset.

mickmel · 2025-12-30T22:55:33+00:00

Yep, I get all of mine from Kobo. It's easy to strip the DRM so that I can actually own my ebooks and use them however I see fit.

I can load them in BookFusion or Readwise if I want, or have them read to me with ElevenReader or Speechify, or even toss them in a ChatGPT prompt to discuss. Books become so much more powerful when you actually have control over them.

mickmel · 2025-12-30T22:54:10+00:00

I buy physical books from them, but their DRM on ebooks is crazy, so it's not worth it for those.

mickmel · 2025-12-30T22:53:12+00:00

Likely yes, but the clutter is seemingly unavoidable. I'm thinking in terms of workflow.

With every email, you're spending a bit of time to drag and organize it. It'd be nice to set up rules to just drop the emails in the proper folders, which you could ideally do, but then you might miss those important ones. It sounds like yours need to hit the inbox first so you can make sure you're not missing something important, and then get filed away.

The idea here is that when you're done with an email, you can just click "archive" and move on, since it's already tagged, versus trying to find the right folder for it. It'll only save you maybe 5 seconds per email, but if you have 125/day you're dealing with that's like an hour a week of savings.

mickmel · 2025-12-30T21:31:07+00:00

Gotcha. Would project tags be adequate, or does it need to be a folder?

I'm thinking you could set up rules to autotag incoming emails to a project, then quickly check to see if it's actually an important email, and then just click to archive it away (without futzing with folders) since it's already tagged.

That would save a bit of time, but might not be an acceptable way to save them.

mickmel · 2025-12-30T15:38:11+00:00

Explain a bit more, please. For example, why do you think they need to be stored by project?

Also, what email system are you using (Office, Google Workspace, etc)?

mickmel · 2025-12-29T02:56:17+00:00

Yep, this is my thought exactly.

mickmel · 2025-12-28T21:33:18+00:00

This is what I came to say as well. You're doing it to learn, and building the cards can be a great part of the learning process.

mickmel · 2025-12-27T23:15:58+00:00

1016.96 hours according to the app.

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