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.
The first requirement is where they tend to fall down.
That said, the defacto standard is Moon+ Reader. That said, I use Legado for my epub consumption needs.
Gonna jump in to agree that Moon+ Reader seems to be the most commonly used. And for good reason: it’s very customizable and it does a great job presenting text in an easy to consume way.
OP, I’m sure you’ve already tried it, but consider giving it another go. You can make it do nearly all the things on your list.
I used Lithium in the past until I bought myself a Paperwhite (still dislike Amazon).
Maybe it ticks of some of your points.
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.
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.
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;
}
Honestly, IMO they all suck. I’ve tried most around up until about 4 or 5 months ago when I gave up, and each one has some really annoying issues. that I never managed to work around
These requirements are really specific. Whites parts of black pictures in particular, I can’t think of anything that implements that.
Anyway, these probably don’t have everything you want, but I use Librera:
website: https://librera.mobi/
Github: https://github.com/foobnix/LibreraReader
No material you theme, but I know it has font selection, and dictionary/translation integration.
The website claims it supports custom themings, and CSS. I can find the options in my app, but I haven’t touched them.
It also supports custom fonts, including user added ones.
It supports sync between librera instances (Google Drive has first class support), but not with Foliate.
It defaults to “book mode” which is page
Bit off-topic…Librera is decent but I hate that I can’t use custom background without changing the opacity. It seems like it doesn’t have the ability to use a background but it rather puts the image on top of the text and then lowers the opacity of the custom image, which doesn’t look nice.
