Got my secondhand Kobo Libra Colour this week. I set up custom fonts (Lexend, Fantastique, Alice), KOReader with Date Time Plugin, transparent backgrounds, and e.Mote page turner for iOS/watchOS which I'm alpha testing. Speaking of clocks, I picked up a secondhand Spartus 1099 for $12. I like the large display size. It's sitting on a mousepad I found on the ground in the city that looks like a carpet lol

#kobo #eink #eReader

For my birthday I got a colour e-reader (Kobo Libra Colour). The obvious 1st book to read was The Neverending Story with its two colour text, red for our world green for Fantastica. But there don’t seem to be any ebooks recreating those original editions, they just use italic text. And all the illustrations are awful quality black and white.
Challenge accepted.
I’ve edited the text to be multi colour, and scanned illustrations from my old paper copy!
#ebooks #kobo #TheNeverendingStory

Sharp Edge of Yesterday is my biggest chonkiest novel so far.
https://books2read.com/SharpEdge
What's inside:
midlife crisis superpowers
no capes
chosen families
grumpy hero
older heroines
younger heroines too
fighting the system
defying expectations
coming of age
fantasy but also science fiction
definitely hopepunk
Book 2 of the Rollover Files, built for stand alone/series entry

#scifi #fantasy #books #reading #writing #kindle #kobo #nook #goodbooks #goodreads

Sharp Edge of Yesterday is my biggest chonkiest novel so far.
https://books2read.com/SharpEdge
What's inside:
midlife crisis superpowers
no capes
chosen families
grumpy hero
older heroines
younger heroines too
fighting the system
defying expectations
coming of age
fantasy but also science fiction
definitely hopepunk
Book 2 of the Rollover Files, built for stand alone/series entry

#scifi #fantasy #books #reading #writing #kindle #kobo #nook #goodbooks #goodreads

On uk kobo Equal Rights and The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett are only 99p each
#kobo #books #bookstodon #discworld #GNUTerryPratchett

On uk kobo Equal Rights and The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett are only 99p each
#kobo #books #bookstodon #discworld #GNUTerryPratchett

In a rare bright spot for consumers, I learned today that bookshop.org is working with #Kobo to get first party support for ebooks purchased from bookshop.org. You’d no longer have to choose between using your eReader or supporting your local book store! As someone who has greatly preferred reading on an eReader this is very exciting for me, as I have always felt a little bad for not supporting local #bookshops with my reading purchases.

In a rare bright spot for consumers, I learned today that bookshop.org is working with #Kobo to get first party support for ebooks purchased from bookshop.org. You’d no longer have to choose between using your eReader or supporting your local book store! As someone who has greatly preferred reading on an eReader this is very exciting for me, as I have always felt a little bad for not supporting local #bookshops with my reading purchases.

My #kobo reader has got very slow. It's claiming that I'm using
27.6 GB of 32 GB of storage but I've only got 1GB of books on there.
Surely the firmware isn't that big?

@heiseonline
trotzdem kein Grund, sich mit einem Kindle an Amazon zu binden. ( #fckbezos) #Calibre #Tolino #Kobo

@stefano I can borrow library books on my kobo using the Libby app. Hope your local library provides something similar #kobo

Early birthday/Christmas gift to myself

#Gift #eBookReader #kobo

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle currently free on the #Kobo app.

#bookstodon #FreeBook
https://www.kobo.com/GB/en/ebook/the-complete-sherlock-holmes-31

Quill OS – an open-source, fully-functional standalone OS for Kobo eReaders

https://quill-os.org/

#HackerNews #QuillOS #Kobo #eReaders #OpenSource #TechInnovation #eReaders

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle currently free on the #Kobo app.

#bookstodon #FreeBook
https://www.kobo.com/GB/en/ebook/the-complete-sherlock-holmes-31

49 – 63 minutes estimated reading time?!

There are better places to read the latest anticipated article from @pluralistic than on my old, worn office chair.

Interoperability in 2025 sometimes pleasantly surprises me, and it turned out that #Kobo + @instapaper integration just, worked?

So now I simply click that button in the toolbar and the article arrives on my e-ink device. 📰⚡

Bonus tip; if you ARE reading on your work pc, try Reader Mode (F9).

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free-web-pages

49 – 63 minutes estimated reading time?!

There are better places to read the latest anticipated article from @pluralistic than on my old, worn office chair.

Interoperability in 2025 sometimes pleasantly surprises me, and it turned out that #Kobo + @instapaper integration just, worked?

So now I simply click that button in the toolbar and the article arrives on my e-ink device. 📰⚡

Bonus tip; if you ARE reading on your work pc, try Reader Mode (F9).

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free-web-pages

The AI brand of #Enshitification has come for #Calibre.

https://www.howtogeek.com/calibre-has-finally-given-into-the-ai-trend

Anyone started a fork yet?

Anyone got a workflow for decrypting #Kobo #ebooks without Calibre? #ebook #ereader

8/x I was wondering what the color epaper of my #ereader ( #kobo Libra Color) looks like in #microscope closeup. It's kinda interesting to see how the color and grey tones are two different layers and resolutions.

75x magnification.

Help!
Non vorrei cedere, però credo proprio che dovrò dotarmi di un #kobo o #kindle o simili.
Per quanto io sia un'assidua frequentatrice di biblioteche non sempre trovo quello che cerco o magari non in tempi utili e comprare tutti i libri che vorrei...

Qualcuno usa quelli o delle alternative? Come vi trovate?

Suggerimenti? Non di scaricarli su cellulare o pc perché ci ho già provato e non mi trovo!

Grazie!