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Readest - Open source, cross-platform ereader (www.readest.com)
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Hey all!

I just came across this a few minutes ago—looks amazing. It’s the only application of its kind I’ve seen that includes text-to-speech out of the box!

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure a lot of people don't mind, but I'm going to avoid it due to its collection of usage data in the privacy policy. Really wish this didn't exist in apps that just format the contents of a file.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Especially geolocation data...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So apparently you need to sign up for Sync feature, and the Sync server is not self-hostable…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It looked to me to be optional, but yeah I was curious about that too…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Not really related to this, but Kotatsu, a manga reading app, let's you selfhost the sync server and I find that amazing.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

Important to note, looks like the server component is not self-hostable (and the client doesn't E2E encrypt).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This seems to be a Foliate fork. I have a blurry font problem with Foliate and couldn't use it for a while, but this one doesn't have that bug. Thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is Foliate available for android?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't think so. This one has Android build but it seems to be in alpha stage.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

This was recently packaged in nixpkgs. FWIW.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Another privacy nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Alternatively there is BookStory for Android

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would recommend Librera FD for android. BookStory is still very early in development.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but it looks and feels so much better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It has a smoother UI but idk if it's a nornal ebook reader. It scrolls horizontally, no page turning, no txt to speech, not much font settings, no sync and so many more basic features. I haven't checked it recently so idk how many of these were added but the main thing is it looks and feels like tachiyomi fork for manga, idk how good it can be for book reading.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Cool! Just make such proposal:

It would be awesome to introduce something like animation of page-flipping, small shadows and possibility to list pages "taking them by angles" like you can do it in Demo or Uploading on https://heyzine.com/

Thanks for Readest :) 👍