Currently I’m using Google Play books and there are few things I’m used to and can’t live without:

  • turning pages by volume keys
  • cloud syncing (doesn’t have to be their cloud, but implementing some cloud services would be nice, bonus points for S3 compatible)
  • searching text in the book
  • supports epub

I want to switch to something open source because I’m often using my S-Pen to turn pages and I’d like my book reader to support it too. I’m fine with contributing the code myself (as I’ve done for the comic book reader app I’m using), but if there already is one, it would save me some work.

  • Rikudou_SageOPAEnglish
    6•6 months ago

    I have no idea why you would use a pen to turn pages???

    Because the pen can be held in the other hand which can be anywhere - you turn the page with a click of a button. And the pen doesn’t have to be anywhere near the screen. After a few hours of reading you can feel the difference between having your hand in a natural position and forcing it in a position to be able to turn the pages.

    • @Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•6 months ago

      Ah OK I thought you used it on the screen, which made little sense to me. But that’s pretty cool. 😎 AFAIK KOreader allows you to customize input for turning pages, so I think you can do it, but I haven’t tried.
      KOreader is very customizable.