• emb
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    6 hours ago

    I hear these names thrown around a lot. I’ve only briefly tried Calibre, and not KOReader yet.

    I’m kinda curious, what’s the difference between them and the roles they fill?

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      2 hours ago

      You already received a reply to this, but I recently had both installed and also recently reviewed my apps to uninstall duplicate-purpose apps.

      KOreader looks like what comes on a Kindle, Nook, etc. I have it loaded on an old Kindle 4th Generation I inherited from my Grandpa. If you like eBook readers, this one is for you. Librera is for people who are Android users, especially those who download and store books on their devices. It follows more typical Android design conventions and functions more like a full eBook suite vs a reader tool.

      I think I’m going to go with KOreader for my uses, but have immense admiration for the developers of both.

    • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 hours ago

      Calibre is an ebook library manager with a reader built-in. Koreader is purely reader software, and it works particularly well on touch and eink screens.