LibreRead 1.0
Productivity
ebook reader
SHOW HN2017
210points
83comments
#150of 2,242 in 2017
Top 7%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
7 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 10 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Execution: 4 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Single Go binary is easy to self-host
From 3 comments
Self containing binary that runs anywhere is the pinnacle of deployment :)
mariusmg on HNIt's. And really big one. I don't use Go, but I self host some services. You need to host few services to understand how important this feature really is. I hosted owncloud,…
slezyr on HNThat tells me I'm not going to have to install some command line tools, a couple scripting language or JVM runtimes (make sure it's the right version, which may not be the…
ashark on HN
Objections
Requires 1GB memory minimum
From 2 comments
1GB memory min. That's heavy :/
one87 on HNAn epub file is basically a web page; HTML/CSS rendering ain't cheap.
leggomylibro on HN
PDF handling opens in browser viewer instead of reader
From 2 comments
It works with the epub book in the demo, but with the pdf one, it just opens the whole pdf file in my viewer.
rplnt on HNIt looks like it takes PDFs and epubs and serves them as HTML - but PDF conversion is particularly tricky and prone to failure. When I clicked a PDF link it opened in FireFox's…
smhenderson on HN
Lacks Calibre-level library management features
From 2 comments
If this were designed to seamlessly interoperate with Calibre (a filesystem and sqlite3 iirc) this would be potentially useful to me. I could more confidently selfhost a web…
hammerandtongs on HNOff the top of my head, this needs: Table of Contents support with working links; per-user storable bookmarks; font and color control; margin control; multiple methods of page…
dsr_ on HN
Requests
Support for mobi files
From 1 comment
I'd really like a project like this that could read mobi files. There's also calibre-web[1] which also has a nice mobile interface and also doesn't support mobi. I don't know…
rkachowski on HN
Integration with Kobo or Kindle readers
From 1 comment
It would be great if we could integrate it with some ereader (kobo, Kindle). I don't really like reading ebooks on my desktop or mobile
cdancette on HN
Metadata-based library search by default
From 1 comment
I had the same reaction after trying the demo. I have tens of thousands of e-books, and have been looking for some kind of self-hosted, web-based library system like this.…
ThinkingGuy on HN
Questions
Why Go instead of other languages
From 1 comment
Nice! Why did you use golang over other programming languages?
xchip on HN
Does it track current page in PDFs
From 1 comment
Does this track current page in PDFs? I had a quick look and it seems like this feature is supported for epub files. I maintain, for personal use, a self-hosted web service that…
gravypod on HN
Alternatives named
Calibre
From 2 comments
I'll stick to Calbre
avryhof on HNIf this were designed to seamlessly interoperate with Calibre (a filesystem and sqlite3 iirc) this would be potentially useful to me. I could more confidently selfhost a web…
hammerandtongs on HN
Calibre-web
From 1 comment
I'd really like a project like this that could read mobi files. There's also calibre-web[1] which also has a nice mobile interface and also doesn't support mobi. I don't know…
rkachowski on HN
Ubooquity
From 1 comment
This is really nice and I'm definitely planning on giving it a looksee. I currently use Ubooquity since it's a very simply no-fuss reader that works fantastic on tablets and has…
bane on HN
KOReader
From 1 comment
I was just reading about a couple of ereader apps this morning. https://github.com/koreader/koreader and a newer one that the developer just announced in a Reddit rust group:…
digikata on HN