As you say, I love ebooks for fiction. But the folks building these apps and devices still haven't hit on an interaction model that works well for non-fiction.
I might have three copies of the same book open at once. One for linear reading, one for search and one for cross referencing. Much better than a physical book. A bookmarks side-bar works well in e-readers if there are specific locations you regularly need access to.
Tablets and physical e-readers suck in comparison to a proper computer. You also might need to strip DRM to get out of some walled-garden reader that prevents you opening multiple instances of the same book. Copy paste is a killer feature for note taking (and another reason to ditch ecosystem readers that interfere with copy paste like Apple books).
I’ve never used or looked into non-ecosystem e-readers. Do you have any recommendations?
I don't use Calibre as a library tool, I find that pretty annoying. I just use a git repo with folders for genres and markdown file with each book for notes.
On Android I use ReadEra.
This is what I have in my notes for the settings. Just a result of iterative poking until I like it so the css is uh... not fit for a code review :)
# Font
Baskerville (google fonts) I think I might use Merriweather on some OS because they render differently, I can't recall offhand).
custom scheme:
foreground: #2f2f2f
background: #fcfcfc
100, 100
75, 75
- remember window last position
- progress bottom right
p
{
line-height: 1.5em !important;
font-size: 0.854em !important;
padding-bottom: 25px;
text-indent: 35.868px !important;
}
div
{
line-height:1.5em;
padding-top: 1em;
}
line-height: 1.5em;