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   s҉h҉i҉b҉c҉o҉ (shibacomputer@post.lurk.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 01:10:49 JST s҉h҉i҉b҉c҉o҉

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   Foliate is just truly wonderfully made, a thoughtful balance between capability and complexity, supports styluses for highlighting, writes changes to disk, UI disappears when not needed. I read via Foliate every day and would go literally crazy without it. 🥲https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/

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     s҉h҉i҉b҉c҉o҉ (shibacomputer@post.lurk.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 01:10:50 JST s҉h҉i҉b҉c҉o҉

     I can't believe how much reading #ePubs and #PDFs on computers sucks.

     Every eInk reader, every iPad app, every library manager eats your content and hold it within its own shitty little ecosystem. Nothing plays nice.

     Annotation support is a nightmare, leading to either useless vector-based drawing annotations rather than text highlighting (eg Remarkable and Supernote) or endless duplicates of your content after you annotate it (like every iOS app that uses iOS' horrendous app-based filesystem). Every PDF annotator has a major drawback, eg, an overcluttered interface (PDF Expert on iOS, Okular), broken export options (Xournal++, every iOS app) or simply just barebones annotation tools (GNOME PDF viewer, macOS Preview)

     The least bad of all of these is Calibre, an app that arranges your books similar to a music library. But should you wish to annotate anything you read, Calibre will absolutely not support it without hacky disk-based syncing - something the dev explicitly discourages.

     The only good app I've seen is Foliate, an incredible no-nonsense ePub reader that's literally better than any other book reader.

     Gianni Rosato repeated this.