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Any good ebook readers for Android? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by musaoruc@lemmy.ml to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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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[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] brie@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not sure about UI font color, but user style tweaks can change book font colors.

:root {
	color: yellow;
	background-color: navy;
}

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

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.