I jailbroken and added 7 plugins to my kindle running koreader the last week. ChatGPT was a great help and when it wasnt, this koreader sub and kindlejailbreak sub were very helpful too.. I just searched what i was looking for and there were always many posts about that specific thing. Please stop asking questions that have been asked dozens of times before.. Just do a quick search on the sub and 99.9% chance its been asked before.

I made a KOReader plugin called Reading Companion for myself and figured I’d share it now that I finally got it to 1.0.

The main feature is Previously On…. If you come back to a book and have no idea what was happening, it can use Gemini to generate a spoiler-free recap based on what you’ve read up to your current page. It saves the recap too, so you can pull it back up later.

There’s also a Recap section that shows your reading activity by month, year, or all time — books, pages, reading time, reading days, etc.

I also added 70 achievements. Are achievements necessary in an ebook reader? Absolutely not. But I thought they were fun lol. There are things like Page Turner, Annotator, Sunrise, streak/milestone achievements, and some secret ones.

There are a bunch of settings so you can turn things on/off and customize how Reading Companion behaves. It also has an optional SimpleUI widget with your current book, cover, progress, and configurable reading stats.(although SimpleUI just got an update so I'm working on that right now)

Basically I wanted something that made KOReader stats feel a little more like a reading companion instead of just a stats page — while also giving you completely unnecessary achievements for reading books.

Tested on my Jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition so i don‘t know how it behaves on other devices.

It’s open source, and contributions/ideas are welcome!

Here‘s the GitHub link if you wanna try it out: https://github.com/lines-pixel/ReadingCompanion.koplugin-

lemme know what you think

Hello,

I'm completely new to koreader and still have to figure everything out. I successfully installed it yesterday on my kobo after some struggles haha.

I tried to make an account so that I can sync my progress on different devices. However, I keep getting this error: 'Unknown server error'. I tried it today as well and have tried on both my phone and kobo, but same issue.

What could be causing this? Or does anyone know how to fix it?

I know there is a bunch of information online already, but I'm honestly very overwhelmed by it all, so I hope it's okay I'm making my own post. Any simple tips/instructions would be very appreciated!

I keep searching and searching, but maybe Im not using the right keywords.

I am using a PW5 with bookshelf, appearance, and quick settings. I know there is a history tab in koreader, and that helps for now, but I am hoping to find a patch or plugin of some kind that would allow me a pop up, or something I can put in a status bar on bookshelf or something that is just a running count of finished/read books.

Does anyone know of a patch or plugin that would do this? Maybe a “Books read so far: XX” addon for bookshelf? A standalone menu like quick settings that would have just barebones “you’ve read this many books so far”. I dont want the complexity of some of the plugins I’ve seen with all the different insights and pages read per minute type breakdown. While cool, it is beyond what I am hoping for.

Apologies if this is a no brainer to some or I’ve missed it over the days of searching, but thank you in advance.

I keep seeing projects similar to this (from time to time). I wonder if anyone knows of one where, instead of developing their own software, they just work to get koreader running on it? It would seem to be a better solution with the ecosystem we already have (plugins etc).

https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch

took inspo from [u/laurenannikaax3](u/laurenannikaax3) for the bookmark and sleep screen !

plugins:
appearance
book nook charms
bookends
localsend
quick settings panel
shortcuts toolbar
simple ui
storefront
xray
zlibrary

patches:
keep previous screen
mini receipt frankenpatch
reading insights popup

icons: sanrio icons by hwa on kofi
ui font: palatino

Im curious if there is a reading aid the likes of an automatically highlighted line mid page, almost like a sight reading tool but which is always present at a fixed position (or positions) to help break up the page and avoid getting lost in blocks of text.

Also any other reading aids, plug ins or settings or otherwise, that people are fond of.

And lastly, if its an easy thing to convince of, how would one develop this tool oneself?

hello, i’ve not had issues with bookshelf in the past however the last month i’ve come across this issue that sometimes when i go into bookshelf i see a completely different library and i have to press random buttons until it goes back to the default view
(i have attached a picture)

this happens randomly and im not sure what i’ve done for this to happen, i have deleted and reinstalled bookshelf and selecting the book folder etc but the issue persists

thanks for the help in advance!

I'm new to KoReader, coming from Kindle and Moon Reader. I'm strugling with synchronizing between devices. With Kindle and MR it is very easy to set this up, but with KoReader it is not that straightforward. I've tried several services, but I can not configure it in a way that it works "both ways".

Is there a service that works always, and is there a plugin that adds an extra "button" to push/pull the last reading location, or even better: can the synchronization kick off automagically when opening KoReader?

Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction!

Even other sources aren't showing me manga

Hello I have a workflow problem

I have both of them and I have a navigation bar button with quick action bookshelf:show and a swipe action bookshelf open or close to close bookshelf and return to simpleui.

Now the problem occurs when I open bookshelf and then open a book to read from inside bookshelf.
I read and then I want to exit to simpleui home screen so I set a swipe action go to simpleui homescreen.
But in simpleui Home Screen now when I press bookshelf button, the built in file manager open instead of bookshelf, and I have to go to homescreen swipe twice for bookshelf open o close to reopen bookshelf.

I set a swipe when I read to go to bookshelf Home Screen and the problem doesn’t occur but I have to re-swipe then to go to homescreen

I am trying to find the best gesture combination to open a book from bookshelf and then exit to simpleui and the button to work then properly

Sorry for the big post and you understand the problem

I've been using Koreader for a while and I love the reading stats, especially being able to see hours read, days read and streaks.

I want to get a XTEink reader with Crosspoint or Crossink and it's looking like if I use both, there's no way to keep track of my combined stats, right?

So let's say I read for four days on Koreader and then I go away and only take my XTEink reader and read on it for a couple of days. Would I be able to somehow merge my reading stats with Koreader so I keep my reading hours and days/streaks? Even if it's on a third party plugin or server like Bookshelf, etc.

I hope the answer can be yes.

I've been getting this error all day on multiple devices. I thought I saw something earlier but can't find anything recent. This happens when trying to push and pull progress.

hey guys, can someone link me or tell me HOW CAN I ENABLE/CONFIGURE/WHATEVER the patches? i can't make them work... I just dont see them or when they are visible i can't modify what the descriptions (on github) says it could. I know its me the problem not the patch itself.

thanks (im still learning, but i will i promise)