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Increase swapfile size in Ubuntu

The default of 2 GB turned out to be a bit limiting.
There was a nice guide over at here.
sudo swapoff /swapfile
sudo fallocate -l 16G /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
swapon --show
free -h

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Ignore Electron Sandbox Containment Error, to run Itch or any other app

In short, ELECTRON_DISABLE_SANDBOX=1 /home/frans/.itch/itch.

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KOReader 2025.04 “Full Moon”

As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.

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The user guide received a big update, full changelog here.

Dictionaries with images now automatically take the res folder as their point of departure (#12877). This means you’ll have to adjust your dictionary content scripts. If you’re lucky you can simply delete them.

Various changes in plugins:

  • exporter plugin drops support for memos and flomo. You can install them from https://github.com/koreader/contrib if they work for you as is but they won’t receive support here.
  • autofrontlight plugin was removed.
  • backgroundrunner plugin was removed. Third party plugins that rely on it to work need to be updated!

New support for KindleHF. Any Kindle running firmware ≥ 5.16.3 will need the kindlehf package.

This month’s logo was contributed by @Sonnenfee

We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v2024.11...v2025.04closed milestone issues


Installation instructions: AndroidCervantesChromeOSKindleKoboPocketBookReMarkableDesktop LinuxMacOS

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KOReader 2024.11 “Slang”

As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.

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Some of you on Android may have had dictionary issues. That should be fixed now.

Connecting to Wi-Fi should be more reliable on platforms where we manage it ourselves, most notably Kobo (koreader/lj-wpaclient#11).

Color is now supported when reflowing (#12085).

This month’s logo was contributed by @Sonnenfee

We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v2024.07...v2024.11closed milestone issues


Installation instructions: AndroidCervantesChromeOSKindleKoboPocketBookReMarkableDesktop LinuxMacOS

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KOReader 2024.07 “Outside”

As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.

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Bookmarks have been renamed to annotations to reflect that notes and bookmarks are two sides of the same coin.

A big thanks to @ezdiy and @benoit-pierre for taking on the major effort of updating MuPDF (#11940). Unfortunately or hopefully you won’t notice a thing, but some edge cases in PDF rendering have been fixed.

Likewise our gratitude to @Commodore64user for the many non-touch/keyboard focused improvements.

If you used the built-in update to try out a development version in the last week of June you might need to overwrite the install manually, see #12115.

This month’s logo was contributed by @Sonnenfee

We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

Full changelogclosed milestone issues


Installation instructions: AndroidCervantesChromeOSKindleKoboPocketBookReMarkableDesktop LinuxMacOS

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KOReader 2024.04 “Sourdough”

As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.

As usual, there have been so many changes that it’s difficult to tell a coherent story about them. One of the more noticeable changes is that the sleep screen menu (formerly known as the screensaver menu) has been reworked (#11549). But there’s also been a lot of work on the backend, updating the build infrastructure and crengine.

This month’s logo was contributed by @Sonnenfee

We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

Full changelogclosed milestone issues


Installation instructions: AndroidCervantesChromeOSKindleKoboPocketBookReMarkableDesktop LinuxMacOS

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Forwardport (reverse backport) Muon to Ubuntu 24.04

Apparently Muon was kicked out of Debian/Ubuntu for being inactive, but since it’ll take a while longer for bitrot to set in, for now a quick forwardport will suffice.

Muon is nice for quickly being able to select multiple things at once and it searches while you type. They’re just a few little UI conveniences. Synaptic is seemingly identical, but there you have to authenticate even before performing any actions, which makes it much more annoying to use.

dget -xu http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/muon/muon_5.8.0-2ubuntu1.dsc
cd muon-5.8.0
dch --local ~frenzie "forwardport"
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -sa
cd ..
sudo apt install ./muon_5.8.0-2ubuntu1~frenzie1_amd64.deb

For more info on how to backport packages, see this random search result.

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KOReader 2024.03 “Read ‘n Relax”

As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.

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The cover grid is now adjustable, allowing you to display more or fewer book covers at once (#11232).

In more technical news, the CSS pseudoclasses :is(), :where() and :not() are now supported (#11353), as well as a private syntax extension for matching text in user stylesheets (#11323). Also of note is the new HttpInspector plugin, that can be used to inspect KOReader internals while it’s running (#11457). This can be useful when the program is running on a device.

Last but not least, the user guide received a big update again by @offset-torque, full details here.

This month’s logo was contributed by @Sonnenfee

We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

  • CoverBrowser: adjustable mosaic grid (#11232) @hius07
  • Reader: Do less work on same-orientation non-gyro rotations (#11297) @zwim
  • Input: Simplify input slot storage alloc (#11296) @NiLuJe
  • Fix missing diacritics on first row of Slovak keyboard layout (#11343) @sonix-github
  • OTAManager: Slightly less cryptic error on connectivity issues (#11341) @NiLuJe
  • Text selection: add option to disable corner scroll (#11327) @poire-z
  • Text selection: show top left icon when very-long-press delay reached (#11327) @poire-z
  • bump base: add cre.findAllText(), many 3rd party bumps (#11347) @poire-z
  • Fulltext search: all entries in entire document (#11313, #11388) @hius07
  • bump crengine: fix CSS cascade, support :is(), other fixes (#11353) @poire-z
  • ReaderStatus: Fix some more lifecycle issues in onEndOfBook (#11350) @NiLuJe
  • InputDialog: Don’t close the VirtualKeyboard when you tap inside a key’s border (#11350) @NiLuJe
  • reMarkable: More robust Wi-Fi scripts (#11287) @gbyl
  • Frontlight widget: add left button as close key on hasFewKeys devices (#11376) @a-ignatev
  • Virtual keyboard: add Scandinavian layouts (Norwegian, Swedish & Danish) (#11365) @cookiebit
  • TextBoxWidget: allow showing bits of text in bold (#11362) @poire-z
  • UI: Add a verbose debug logging checkbox next to “Report a bug” (#11366) @NiLuJe
  • PRSTux: Disable OTAs, since we actually stopped offering them a few years ago (#11395) @NiLuJe
  • Terminal: Clearer error message on prereq failures, and disable it (#11395) @NiLuJe
  • Text editor: refresh path on saving file (#11396) @hius07
  • CoverBrowser: use bookinfo cache in Classic mode (#11404) @hius07
  • PathChooser: fix calling Folder shortcuts (#11367) @hius07
  • Clear UI leftovers before doing an OTA-install, add unmovable to InfoMessage and ConfirmBox (#11412) @zwim
  • TextViewer: make find result bold (#11427) @hius07
  • CoverBrowser: do not call lfs on every item (#11449) @hius07
  • [i18n] ReaderSearch: add translation context to “All” button (#11352) @Frenzie
  • bump base: libjpeg-turbo, libpng, and other tweaks (fixes some PocketBook devices like PocketBook Basic 613) (#11462) @poire-z @NiLuJe
  • HttpInspector: new plugin for developers to inspect KOReader (#11457) @poire-z with thanks to @bneo99
  • bump crengine: text selection and footnotes fixes and tweaks (allows for single images in footnotes) (#11468) @poire-z
  • Style tweaks: add inpage foootnote classnames and a tweak (#11468) @poire-z
  • FileChooser: add new percent - unopened - 100% or complete sorting method (#11369, #11472) @hasezoey
  • Various pan zoom mode fixes (#11325, #11408, #11425) @hugleo
  • Kindle oasis has no ambient brightness sensor (#11456) @Hzj-jie
  • Alt status bar: custom metadata support (#11463) @hius07
  • VocabBuilder.koplugin: support batch operations in book filtering (#11475) @weijiuqiao
  • Wallabag: match text/html mimetype as starting with rather than exactly (#11492) @Frenzie
  • MenuSearch: open upper menu when needed only (#11495) @hius07

Full changelogclosed milestone issues


Installation instructions: AndroidCervantesChromeOSKindleKoboPocketBookReMarkableDesktop LinuxMacOS

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KOReader 2024.01 “Snowy Summit”

As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.

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We wish everyone a happy and prosperous 2024!

Image credit for snowy mountains: Bing Dall-E

We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

Full changelogclosed milestone issues


Installation instructions: AndroidCervantesChromeOSKindleKoboPocketBookReMarkableDesktop LinuxMacOS

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KOReaver 2023.10 “Ovis”

As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.

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Image credit: Bing Image Creator (Dall-E 3)

The user guide has had a big update. Included below is the full release announcement.

USER GUIDE 23.10 UPDATE

This is the biggest ever update to the guide. 2 years ago I started with the intention to make a simple how-to guide. With this release, user guide reached 60 A4 pages ! KOReader might be the best documented reader app now 🙂

Our guide is now a HTML document:
https://koreader.rocks/user_guide/

It was very tedious to recreate the PDF as a web page (especially considering that I had to learn CSS to do it).
But there are many benefits like:
– More frequent and real-time updates
– Better compatibility for smaller devices
– Ability to directly link to it in issues and discussions
– Possibility to be packed as an EPUB
– PDF sucks

Also I recently noticed that our color palette in the guide was not suitable for color blind people. Some important items were indistinguishable for color blind users so I updated the colors to provide nice contrast for them too. Also added icons and visual aids to make the text more accessible.


CHANGELOG

GUIDE CHANGES:

  • Recreated the guide in HTML
  • Updated the colors, fonts and styles to accomodate color blind users
  • Optimized all the images to make them as small as possible without degradation (Achieved ~50% reduction in size)

MAJOR CHANGES:

  • Fonts has its own section now
  • Quick Menu and Profiles has its own section now
  • Expanded Plugins section to include contrib and external plugins
  • Rewritten Highlighting, Bookmarks and Notes section
    • “Highlight icon” in the File Browser
    • Bookmarks: filter by highlight style
    • Multiple highlights and notes
  • Expanded Export section
    • Export multiple files
    • Export to clippings format
    • Export to memos format
    • See and choose export folder
  • Added Keyboard shortcuts section for non-touch devices and Linux
  • Added full list of actions that is available in Gesture Manager

ADDED INFO ABOUT:

  • Partial rendering
  • Translate current page
  • Scrolling modes
  • Creating a profile with current document settings
  • Open with: Archive viewer
  • Open with: Image viewer
  • Patch manager
  • Menu search
  • Location history
  • Setting to turn off flashing on pages with images
  • Ability to change statistics calculation time
  • Clearing PDF cache
  • Switching the style to HTML5 to fix some problems
  • Toggle status bar via gestures or Quick Menu
  • Scrollable Quick Menu
  • “Move to archive” availability in Gesture Manager
  • Custom book cover setting
  • Using “Exit screensaver” gesture as a pseudo lock screen
  • Tap on time to show date
  • Verbose logs procedure in How to report problems section

UPDATED IMAGES:

  • File Browser
  • Skim widget
  • Book map menu

We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

Full changelogclosed milestone issues


Installation instructions: AndroidCervantesChromeOSKindleKoboPocketBookReMarkableDesktop LinuxMacOS

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