Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org musaoruc @lemmy.ml 11 mo. ago

Any good ebook readers for Android?

I am looking for a nice ebook reader app for android but it's proving to be quite difficult. Every app I stumble open misses at least a few things I want. So here is a list of things I want:

-Material You UI

-Custom themes

-Font selection

-Dictionary or translator integration

-Page view (NO scrolling through the book)

A few things that could be nice but not necessary:

-I use Foliate on desktop so a way to sync with that

-Make white parts of the black and white pictures same color as the backgroud.

I think that's all. I searched a lot but to no avail. Hopefully this community helps me and others. Thank you guys in advance.

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Have you tried KOReader yet? It's not Material UI and doesn't have any sort of "theme", since it's very focused on just showing your text, but it lets you extensively pick fonts and styles for your books, has dictionary lookups (tap and hold), page view, and it can sync with itself (available on the desktop and many physical ereaders). My main gripe is that it's very configurable, and I don't personally like many of the defaults. After setting it all up it's quite powerful, and I use it on my physical ereader, Android phone, and desktop PC in roughly the same configuration.
- Yes I have but it’s either pure white that burns your eyes or eye burning white letters on deep space black and I do not want that. I really want the app to either adapt to my material you theme (which is yellow-brown colored and really nice to look at I think) or give me the option to make my own theme.
  
  You can change the background color by changing the ["cre_background_color"] key in settings.reader.lua (again, I dislike needing to configure it like this). On my Android and desktop I set it to ["cre_background_color"] = "0xECECEC",, which inverts into a nice gray when I set it to night mode, then I invert all the image colors so they're a normal color. ~~Font color can't be changed though, TMK.~~ You can change font color with custom CSS snippets.
  
  Not sure about UI font color, but user style tweaks can change book font colors.
  
  :root { color: yellow; background-color: navy; }
  
  Wow I feel dumb for not thinking of that. In my defense I like the text as #FFF on gray. KOReader's arbitrary CSS snippets and style tweaks are really neat.
- I'm interested in installing KOReader on my Kobo. Its good, portable and lightweight software
  
  This is all I needed to do so: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=314220
  
  Run the script from the second post, then eject the Kobo and let it install. Afterwards you can open it from the new NickelMenu button at the bottom right. My Kobo just stays in KOReader mode all the time.
  
  Thank you for the link. Saved!
- Yes I have but it's either pure white that burns your eyes or eye burning white letters on deep space black and I do not want that. I really want the app to either adapt to my material you theme (which is yellow-brown colored and really nice to look at I think) or give me the option to make my own theme.
  
  You can change the background color by changing the ["cre_background_color"] key in settings.reader.lua (again, I dislike needing to configure it like this). On my Android and desktop I set it to ["cre_background_color"] = "0xECECEC",, which inverts into a nice gray when I set it to night mode, then I invert all the image colors so they're a normal color. Font color can't be changed though, TMK.

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