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  • I can’t think of a feature that KOReader provides that isn’t already in the Kobo software.

    There are many many such features, such as

    • style tweaks where a book’s CSS can be altered,
    • plugins
    • an in-depth progress and session tracker,
    • the ability to ghost pages (like copyright and index) so they are skipped and don’t contribute to progress stats.
    • RSS reader
    • Progress syncing between instances

    The killer feature for me however was in-page footnotes, so they show up at the bottom of the relevant page rather than having to trigger a popup or follow a link.

    It also supports wireless transfer from Calibre-web, direct download via OPDS from a Calibre server or online providers like gutenberg, or syncthing.

    The problem is, as you’ve experienced, there are so many tweaks and features that it takes a long time to get to grips with the possibilities.






  • I found the guides overwhelming too at the start, but then I skipped them and just went for it with a simple container in a compose file (doesn’t even have to be sonarr).

    The benefit of containerisation is that if you break it, it’s simple to remove the container, delete the config folder and start again without affecting your system. Give it fake data files to munch on and it’s unlikely to ruin anything if you muck it up.

    So I did that a few times until I got the basic relationship between the docker compose file and the functions of the program. THEN I looked up some guides on the arrs and saw I needed to structure the volumes better, but that’s fine because I could wipe clean and go again.

    Only when it worked predictably and I understood it did I let it loose on my library.

    The good news is that if you figure Sonarr out, Radarr is almost exactly the same. As are all the arrs.

    And then if you need some of them to route through a VPN container, that’s just one line in the file. And so on. Before you know it there are 20+ services and they’re easily managed.

    So from services on a single compose, I can mark a show to follow, it’ll automatically download on release, rename itself, any extraneous subtitles and audio tracks removed, ingest to the media server, and delete the files when they’ve been watched. Basically, all I do is ask for the show and watch it. Everything else is automatic.