I read books on multiple devices—GNU/Linux, Android, and Kindle. Last time I checked, Calibre was too feature-rich and heavy, but lacked a simple getting-out-of-my way workflow for syncing my reading between devices. Is there a better solution now?
Calibre is great for me when syncing epub/mobi books from my computer to my Kindle Paperwhite (I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a major problem in this particular process, only on very old books which it has trouble converting). Besides that I use it to convert epub/mobi books onto html which is where I like to read when in my computer (using the browser, chromiun or firefox, which means I don’t use the screen reader of Calibre, this way I can make easy modifications with css and inject css to highlight the most important parts with several different encodings allowed by the extension I talked about in my answer).
It’s too feature-rich and heavy and it gets in your way, but it solves many simple problem if you use only some of its features.
This is the open-source repository and I recommend always being up-to-date with the latest release (that may solve some of your problems). Besides that I really recommend Calibre, it’s an essential tool for my purposes.
VS Code + Extensions (Markdown + Latex parsing + Graphs parsing + custom snippets).
Anki
Chromium Extensions (Super Simple Highlighter)
Git
Calibre (Books manager also I usually convert books to HTML)
This “stack” is very useful for me.
I read books on multiple devices—GNU/Linux, Android, and Kindle. Last time I checked, Calibre was too feature-rich and heavy, but lacked a simple getting-out-of-my way workflow for syncing my reading between devices. Is there a better solution now?
Calibre is great for me when syncing epub/mobi books from my computer to my Kindle Paperwhite (I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a major problem in this particular process, only on very old books which it has trouble converting). Besides that I use it to convert epub/mobi books onto html which is where I like to read when in my computer (using the browser, chromiun or firefox, which means I don’t use the screen reader of Calibre, this way I can make easy modifications with css and inject css to highlight the most important parts with several different encodings allowed by the extension I talked about in my answer).
It’s too feature-rich and heavy and it gets in your way, but it solves many simple problem if you use only some of its features.
This is the open-source repository and I recommend always being up-to-date with the latest release (that may solve some of your problems). Besides that I really recommend Calibre, it’s an essential tool for my purposes.