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Submitted by slava on Mon, 05/21/2018 - 12:07
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E-book reader for Sailfish OS.

The core functionality is based on FBReader source code with a few modifications. In theory, it should be able to handle all E-book formats supported by FBReader. Books are imported from the ~/Downloads folder, where they are saved by the browser or email client. Alternatively, you can manually copy your books to the ~/Documents/Books directory. Removable storage (SD-card) is supported as well. Switch between SD-card and internal memory by flicking left and right. Use volume keys (or swipe) to turn the pages.

This is pretty much a copy of the Jolla Store version, except that settings are moved from the app's pulley menu to the Settings -> Applications grid.

Source code: https://github.com/monich/harbour-books

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AttachmentSize
File openrepos-books-1.0.31-15.1.armv7hl.rpm1.33 MB
File openrepos-books-1.0.31-15.1.i486.rpm1.46 MB
File openrepos-books-1.0.30-12.1.armv7hl.rpm1.33 MB
File openrepos-books-1.0.30-12.1.i486.rpm1.46 MB
File openrepos-books-1.0.29-10.1.armv7hl.rpm1.33 MB
File openrepos-books-1.0.29-10.1.i486.rpm1.46 MB
File openrepos-books-1.0.28-9.1.armv7hl.rpm1.33 MB
File openrepos-books-1.0.28-9.1.i486.rpm1.45 MB
File openrepos-books-1.0.27-7.1.armv7hl.rpm1.32 MB
File openrepos-books-1.0.27-7.1.i486.rpm1.45 MB
Changelog: 
  • 1.0.31 (May 21 2018)
    - Fixed "Keep display on while reading" for older systems
  • 1.0.30 (May 19 2018)
    - Added Brazilian Portuguese translations
  • 1.0.29 (May 19 2018)
    - Updated Swedish and Hungarian translations
  • 1.0.28 (May 17 2018)
    - Added option to keep display on while reading
    - Fixed a few memory leaks
  • 1.0.27 (Apr 27 2018)
    - First openrepos release

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TamarindoJuice

Sat, 05/19/2018 - 14:03

Thank you, no problem! I will take care about the utf-8 next time. Your app is the best avaliable for Sailfish in its category, good job!

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TamarindoJuice

Sat, 05/19/2018 - 03:14

Do you need something more or is it ok to be used dev?

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slava

Sat, 05/19/2018 - 12:19

No, it's ok as is. I have just commited your translations:

https://github.com/monich/harbour-books/commit/654b2b6c

Thanks for the contribution!

It would be very nice if you kept an eye on it and provided translations for new strings when they appear.

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fr3d

Wed, 05/16/2018 - 08:52

Good work ! I tested the latetest version.

An option for deactiviting automatic screen turnoff is needed ;-)

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slava

Thu, 05/17/2018 - 20:32

Implemented in version 1.0.28

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TamarindoJuice

Sat, 05/19/2018 - 01:34

I do not have experience with GitHub, so i translated the xml .ts file to pt_BR and sent you the file over e-mail.

Thank you.

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slava

Sat, 05/19/2018 - 02:23

Your file doesn't seem to be utf-8 encoded. There's a problem with accented characters. Can you somehow save it as utf-8?

(never mind, it seems to be in CP819, I was able to convert it myself)

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slava

Wed, 05/16/2018 - 11:17

Good idea. And it shouldn't be hard to implement.

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TamarindoJuice

Sat, 05/12/2018 - 07:48

Transifex avaliable?

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slava

Sat, 05/12/2018 - 12:14

A few other people also mentioned to me this Transifex thing, so I decided to give it a try. I honestly spent couple hours on it, couldn't get it to work correctly with numerus forms and gave up.

Specifically, I played with the Russian translation. First, it failed to parse the existing translations for numerus forms. Then it insisted on having 4 numerus forms for Russian plurals even though Russian only has 3 forms. Then I received an email from them hinting that it's just a free trial. No, thanks.

I'm glad to accept translations as pull requests on github. Here is the English source:

https://github.com/monich/harbour-books/blob/master/app/translations/har...

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fr3d

Thu, 05/10/2018 - 11:48

Any chance to select background picture ?

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slava

Fri, 05/11/2018 - 10:29

Background picture for the book page?

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fr3d

Mon, 05/14/2018 - 13:55

Yes, background for the book page ! I would appreciate it.

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slava

Mon, 05/14/2018 - 14:10

I wrote it down so that I don't forget:

https://github.com/monich/harbour-books/issues/41

No ETA though. I've got plenty of other things that I would also like to be done.

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vovaplushkin

Tue, 05/08/2018 - 14:11

How to view the table of contents?

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slava

Fri, 05/11/2018 - 10:28

Not implemented (yet). And it's on the todo list: https://github.com/monich/harbour-books/issues/34

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TamarindoJuice

Mon, 04/30/2018 - 19:09

An advanced option that would be useful is the function to bookmark and add notes to the selected text.

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Ingvix

Fri, 04/27/2018 - 20:23

Have you considered adding cbr/cbz support?

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slava

Fri, 04/27/2018 - 21:08

When/if I have time, although I have to admit these are not high on my priority list. I would probably do fb3 first.

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TamarindoJuice

Fri, 04/27/2018 - 02:37

Using it from Jolla Store since first release, amazing to know it's here now too! The best SFOS E-reader.

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explit

Fri, 04/27/2018 - 02:33

Спасибо тебе огромное, человеческое!

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dfstorm

Fri, 04/27/2018 - 02:13

Seams to work fine :) thanks for the app.