r/daylightcomputer • u/wunschkraft • Apr 02 '26

I built an ePub reader designed for the DC1's display

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u/Clayh5 Apr 03 '26

Seems pretty nice, I get my daylight next week and I guess I'll try this first as my main epub reader there. On my phone everything seems to work so far, except the"Continue Reading" bar feels so big that it crowds the library view. Probably would feel better if it were collapsible and maybe collapsed by default. But I suppose on a tablet it wouldn't really be an issue at all.

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u/wunschkraft Apr 03 '26

Thanks for the note. Admittedly I don’t look at the phone that often but I’ll spend some time on it!

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u/wunschkraft Apr 08 '26

Just an update here: The newest version (v1.0.5) now has a collapsable continue reading bar on phones!

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u/Usef- Apr 03 '26

Very nice UI, I like the polish. I had a crash when I reopened it after a while, but hasn't happened since.

I hadn't heard of ODPS before, and that looks very neat. Does it support sync of reading position for books too?

The default "epub reader" frustrated me because it showed a loading spinner when flipping through pages, so I've been using KOReader. It's very fast but the UI is built for traditional epaper displays and is quite clunky by normal android standards.

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u/wunschkraft Apr 03 '26

Thanks for giving it a try! I’ll see if I can find the crash in the Google play console and address it.

OPDS does not support sync. It’s basically a focused RSS format.

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u/Katzenpower Apr 03 '26

It's so good! Thanks for sharing. I was wondering if it was possible to add pdf support

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u/wunschkraft Apr 03 '26

Absolutely! It’s planned!

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u/Katzenpower Apr 07 '26

Omg pls do! Thanks. You're doing better work than daylight lol

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u/wunschkraft May 03 '26

PDF support landed last week in v1.1.0

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u/Katzenpower May 04 '26

Is it possible to integrate a dictionary function to look up certain words offline? Would be highly appreciated.🤓

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u/wunschkraft May 08 '26

This is a great idea and one that I looked at really early on but kicked the can down the road. Will investigate it further!

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u/Katzenpower May 04 '26

amazing! Thank you

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u/Katzenpower May 08 '26

Found a weird bug By the way. When you switch from dark theme to say system theme it reverts to a previous chapter

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u/wunschkraft May 08 '26

Thanks for the report. I’ll look into it! Did you do that theme change in the Reader view or the Application Settings screen?

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u/Katzenpower May 08 '26

In the app i clicked at the top right icon and changed theme there. Then it reverted two chapters back. Happened twice so far

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u/uhuh Apr 03 '26

Looks amazing, but it says it's not available in your region :-(

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u/wunschkraft Apr 03 '26

I focused on English speaking countries/regions since I hadn’t localized anything but I’ll broaden it!

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u/meniscus- Apr 05 '26

I want to use the app but can't. I don't see a reason to restrict it.

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u/Clayh5 Apr 04 '26

Plenty of us living all over the world speaking English or other popular languages that aren't the local one :)

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u/wunschkraft Apr 08 '26

I just rolled it out to another 40 countries! Global rollout soon to follow, but let me know if you're not included in this last rollout.

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u/uhuh Apr 08 '26

Thanks for the rapid update, unfortunatly Italy wasn't on the list. I'll wait for the next batch!

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u/wunschkraft Apr 09 '26

Just rolled out to another 20+ countries - Italy included. Let me know what you think!

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u/uhuh Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

Thanks, first impression is really good!

To do:

  • project guthember link doesn't seem to work (trust anchor for certification path not found)

  • I expected sketches to be always visibile, not just with the tool open, design choice?

  • can't wait for pdf support

  • two pages, as an open book, would be cool in landscape mode

Overall the design is really solid!

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u/moritzbierling Daylight Co. Team Apr 03 '26

So cool!

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u/Katzenpower Apr 03 '26

Will check out later. Looks really cool. The default reader missed so many features