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#61
eLibrary Manager / Re: Screen and Font Colors
Last post by kweckwor - March 28, 2016, 12:41:41 AMThere is a Night Mode option for the reader. You can see information about that in the online documentation at
and
The night mode presents book content with light text on a dark background. The above web site has screen captures demonstrating what it looks like. As described in the docs, you can toggle between day and night mode using the Reader Display Options dialog or through the ePub Reader Display Settings.
For the full version, that is available on Google Play and Amazon App Store. If you have access to Amazon Underground, the Underground version of the app is functionally equivalent to the full version, but it is not available in all geographies. Underground apps are free to download. You can find information about additional features in Full/Underground that you do not get in Basic in the online documentation as well, at
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks.
Karl
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The night mode presents book content with light text on a dark background. The above web site has screen captures demonstrating what it looks like. As described in the docs, you can toggle between day and night mode using the Reader Display Options dialog or through the ePub Reader Display Settings.
For the full version, that is available on Google Play and Amazon App Store. If you have access to Amazon Underground, the Underground version of the app is functionally equivalent to the full version, but it is not available in all geographies. Underground apps are free to download. You can find information about additional features in Full/Underground that you do not get in Basic in the online documentation as well, at
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks.
Karl
#62
eLibrary Manager / Screen and Font Colors
Last post by Grizbokkit - March 27, 2016, 10:10:17 PMI have a small visual (optical) handicap and find it uncomfortable to read from devices that have a light background and dark text.
I am able to change to a black background with white text on my Kindle Fire HD8's Kindle app, as well as Kindle for PC on my desktops and laptops.
Try as I might, I have been unable to find settings for those properties in your KPW eLibrary Manager app. Have I missed them somewhere, or are they just not there? If they're NOT there, are they planned for the future?
Is there a PAID upgrade to your app? If so, what are the dirrerences between it and the free app?
BTW, I'm using Build 20160320.02.B [2.1.1/74/28] on my Kindle HD8.
I am able to change to a black background with white text on my Kindle Fire HD8's Kindle app, as well as Kindle for PC on my desktops and laptops.
Try as I might, I have been unable to find settings for those properties in your KPW eLibrary Manager app. Have I missed them somewhere, or are they just not there? If they're NOT there, are they planned for the future?
Is there a PAID upgrade to your app? If so, what are the dirrerences between it and the free app?
BTW, I'm using Build 20160320.02.B [2.1.1/74/28] on my Kindle HD8.
#63
eLibrary Manager / Re: external application suppo...
Last post by kweckwor - February 04, 2016, 12:39:06 PMI haven't heard anything back from the original poster on this, but I will report on what my investigation has uncovered:
- With mimetypes cbr=application/x-cbr and cbz=application/x-cbz, I've been able to launch a variety of comic readers that I randomly downloaded and tried.
- It may still be the case that the default Nook comic reader (or any individual specific comic reader) does not respond to external requests to launch through intents. If that is the case then this app cannot integrate with those readers.
- I am adding the above mimetypes for comics into the default configuration, so it won't be necessary once that is released to define your own. That will be included int the next update.
#64
eLibrary Manager / Re: external application suppo...
Last post by kweckwor - January 30, 2016, 02:55:18 AMOne more thing you should try, I've just realized. In your mimetype.txt file, you should remove the leading slash from the mimetype values. So use
- cbr=application/x-cbr
- cbz=application/x-cbz
- cbr=/application/x-cbr
- cbz=/application/x-cbz
#65
eLibrary Manager / Re: external application suppo...
Last post by kweckwor - January 30, 2016, 12:00:07 AMIn order to launch an external application, that application needs to respond to Android Intents to open resources for which it's declared a corresponding IntentFilter. It might be the case that the default Nook comic reader doesn't respond to these. Is the reader an application that you installed from an app store or did it come bundled with your Nook? If I can install the same app (I don't have a Nook), I can see if I can get it to work.
#66
eLibrary Manager / external application support
Last post by engineerairborne - January 29, 2016, 01:09:44 PMI have some comic books (cbr/cbz) files that I have added to eLibrary Manager. However I can not open them. I followed the instructions for the mimetype and created the mimetype.txt file and placed it at /Android/data/kpw.ebook/files/mimetype/ however I still get the error message unable to find external reader application for this book. The entries I made are cbr=/application/x-cbr and cbz=/application/x-cbz however I still get the error. I have a default comic book reader that I am able to open the files direct from my nook HD +. So not sure what else I would need to do.
#67
eLibrary Manager / Re: PDF book covers
Last post by kweckwor - December 19, 2015, 12:57:20 AMHi Reader101,
Right now, eLibrary Manager only really understands ePub books. It treats non-ePub books (like PDF) as "black box" and doesn't access the contents. I'll take look and see if I can do that without resorting to third-party libraries, which I've been mostly avoiding up to now. I can't promise anything until I have a chance to do my homework on the topic, but I'll see how possible it might be.
However, since you mention that you use calibre, there is another option available that will allow you to load PDF metadata (i.e. book information) from calibre into eLibrary Manager. If you configure calibre to "Save to disk" with separate cover and OPF files in addition to the PDF file, my app will read the metadata (including cover) and load that into the app library.
You can see instructions on how to do that in the online documentation at http://kpwsite.com/home/content/eLibrary/guide_book_types.html. My video tutorial (Part 2) at https://youtu.be/-y3J6QQ1_eg also demonstrates this at around the 13:46 minute mark. I'll list some of the key points here:
Thanks.
Karl
Right now, eLibrary Manager only really understands ePub books. It treats non-ePub books (like PDF) as "black box" and doesn't access the contents. I'll take look and see if I can do that without resorting to third-party libraries, which I've been mostly avoiding up to now. I can't promise anything until I have a chance to do my homework on the topic, but I'll see how possible it might be.
However, since you mention that you use calibre, there is another option available that will allow you to load PDF metadata (i.e. book information) from calibre into eLibrary Manager. If you configure calibre to "Save to disk" with separate cover and OPF files in addition to the PDF file, my app will read the metadata (including cover) and load that into the app library.
You can see instructions on how to do that in the online documentation at http://kpwsite.com/home/content/eLibrary/guide_book_types.html. My video tutorial (Part 2) at https://youtu.be/-y3J6QQ1_eg also demonstrates this at around the 13:46 minute mark. I'll list some of the key points here:
- In calibre, set the Saving books to disk preferences to enable the "Save cover separately" and "Save metadata in a separate OPF file" options.
- Invoke the "Save to disk" action to export your PDF books to your device. That should create 3 files for each book, of types PDF, OPF and JPEG.
- In eLibrary Manager, scan for books as normal, and book information and cover should get loaded into the app library based on the data contained in the extra files saved.
- Unfortunately, the "Save cover separately" and "Save metadata in a separate OPF file" options in calibre only apply to the "Save to disk" action and they have no effect on the regular "Send to device" action that you are probably used to using. Therefore, to produce the extra OPF and cover files, you need to use "Save to disk".
- On one of my devices, the calibre "Save to disk" action does not seem to work when I target any drives on that device. So when loading books through "Save to disk" on this device, I need to save to my computer first, and then copy manually to the device as a separate step. I'm not sure why this happens - I assume its just something weird with how calibre and Android (5.1.1 is the version I'm running) interact with mounted drives through Windows. On my phone, the operation works just fine, so it doesn't seem to be a global problem. But I thought I'd mention it just in case you run across the same issue.
Thanks.
Karl
#68
eLibrary Manager / PDF book covers
Last post by Reader101 - December 18, 2015, 01:37:45 AMHi,
It would be really useful if you could automatically read the first page of PDF books and generate an image to use as the book's cover. (I believe Calibre does this if it cannot find the book in the database).
All my books are in PDF format and the the lookup plugin is unable to find cover images for most books. Adding images manually is extremely time consuming on a tablet.
Thanks for the app.
It would be really useful if you could automatically read the first page of PDF books and generate an image to use as the book's cover. (I believe Calibre does this if it cannot find the book in the database).
All my books are in PDF format and the the lookup plugin is unable to find cover images for most books. Adding images manually is extremely time consuming on a tablet.
Thanks for the app.
#69
ePub Reader / Re: BOOKMARKS - E-pub Reader o...
Last post by kweckwor - November 27, 2015, 03:39:32 AMHi again Howard123,
Ahhh, I've just noticed from the build number that you're using the Basic version of the app. Annotations, including bookmarks, notes and highlights, are a feature of the Full version of the app and are unavailable on Basic. So that would explain why you are unable to find the function.
Karl
Ahhh, I've just noticed from the build number that you're using the Basic version of the app. Annotations, including bookmarks, notes and highlights, are a feature of the Full version of the app and are unavailable on Basic. So that would explain why you are unable to find the function.
Karl
#70
ePub Reader / Re: BOOKMARKS - E-pub Reader o...
Last post by kweckwor - November 27, 2015, 02:30:01 AMHi Howard123,
To set a bookmark, tap and hold (or long-tap, for a couple of seconds) on a word in the Reader view. This should bring up a context menu where you can select option "Bookmark/Note". If you select that, then a bookmark will be placed at that position. It renders in the reader as a blue highlight, and you can see it in the "Annotations" list as well.
You can find more information about this in the online documentation at http://kpwsite.com/home/content/eReader/guide_bookmarks.html, including screen captures demonstrating the feature. You can also see the video tutorial at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVbU97b95Ik at around the 12:47 minute mark to see a live demo of the same. if you check out the video, be warned that I prepared that quite some time ago and the app looks very different now (hopefully for the better), but the functionality is still relevant.
Let me know if you still have questions.
Karl
To set a bookmark, tap and hold (or long-tap, for a couple of seconds) on a word in the Reader view. This should bring up a context menu where you can select option "Bookmark/Note". If you select that, then a bookmark will be placed at that position. It renders in the reader as a blue highlight, and you can see it in the "Annotations" list as well.
You can find more information about this in the online documentation at http://kpwsite.com/home/content/eReader/guide_bookmarks.html, including screen captures demonstrating the feature. You can also see the video tutorial at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVbU97b95Ik at around the 12:47 minute mark to see a live demo of the same. if you check out the video, be warned that I prepared that quite some time ago and the app looks very different now (hopefully for the better), but the functionality is still relevant.
Let me know if you still have questions.
Karl