Question for the audience: Do you tell people you blog?
Yes… No… It depend. It is not a thing I talk about my blog in my every day life. And I have more than one blog so…
Yes I tell but not unprompted. I told people while talking about the argument of my blog, like if I have a post about what we are talking or if the topic of the blog can be usefull for the discussion.
I appreciate some people like to be anonymous when blogging. That’s their choice. I am an open book. You can ask me anything and I will reply honestly, as long as it conforms to my town-square rule.
In my case is not so black and white. This blog url and title is Fundor333. This is my online alias. If you find somewhere fundor333 you find one of my account. So I am well know as Fundor333. So I am “anonymous” when I blog (as I don’t use my real name) but I don’t hide my alias.
So I tell people I blog but not at random and I don’t hide my blog. But is not one of my opening line when talking with someone.
]]>The last one I own is a Kobo Clara Colour, this one.
I love it and the fact I can read in color comics, manga, web comics and graphic novel everywhere is a plus.
But more and more I use Ebook Readers more and more I want to customize it. Like I have in the pic.
I have some task and prerequisite for my Ebook Reader so I check an Hack which resolve all:
So I did some research on the web and find KoReader1.
It is a software which, after installing on the ereader, it add support for plugins and custom covers… So I start with it.
Searching for the wiki page for starting/installing I found some tread about the installation2 and I follow them. Here I rewrite all the steps with newer link for the stuff needed and rewrote some step because the two treads aren’t clear enough for me.
If you have doubt, here is a screenshot of what the terminal look like in step 6 if you did all in the right way.
After the reboot of the device I start to add the plugins for some customization
I add some KoReader Plugin, which you need to install.
All the plugin are installed in the same way:
I also create some image with trasparent background for having this type of cover, where you can see under the sleep-screen what are you reading.
I did a lot of configuration inside of KOReader for this or that component and I don’t want to lose all. So, after asking Reddit How can I make a backup? and make this script.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os
import sys
import shutil
from datetime import datetime
KOREADER_DIR = ".adds"
BACKUP_DESTINATION = "~/BackUp/KoReader"
BACKUP_FILENAME = "koreader_backup_{date}.zip"
def find_kobo_device():
"""Find the path to the Kobo"""
volumes_path = "/Volumes"
if os.path.exists(volumes_path):
for entry in os.listdir(volumes_path):
full_path = os.path.join(volumes_path, entry)
if os.path.isdir(full_path):
try:
contents = os.listdir(full_path)
if ".kobo" in contents:
return full_path
except PermissionError:
continue
return None
def get_koreader_path(kobo_path):
"""Returns the path to KoReader on the Kobo."""
return os.path.join(kobo_path, KOREADER_DIR)
def create_backup(source_path, backup_destination):
"""Creates a zip backup of KoReader."""
if not os.path.exists(source_path):
print(f"Error: KoReader not found in {source_path}")
return False
print(f"Creating backup from: {source_path}")
date_str = datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
backup_filename = BACKUP_FILENAME.format(date=date_str)
backup_path = os.path.join(backup_destination, backup_filename)
print(f"Backup to: {backup_path}")
try:
shutil.make_archive(
backup_path.replace(".zip", ""), "zip", root_dir=source_path, base_dir="."
)
print(f"Backup created: {backup_path}")
return True
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error during backup creation: {e}")
return False
def main():
kobo_path = find_kobo_device()
if not kobo_path:
print("Kobo not found. Connect the device and try again.")
sys.exit(1)
print(f"Kobo found at: {kobo_path}")
koreader_path = get_koreader_path(kobo_path)
backup_destination = os.path.expanduser(BACKUP_DESTINATION)
os.makedirs(backup_destination, exist_ok=True)
success = create_backup(koreader_path, backup_destination)
if success:
print("Backup completed successfully!")
else:
print("Backup failed.")
sys.exit(1)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()This Python script is run every time I connect to my computer with the Kobo and copy the .adds in a specific path with a new folder tagged with the timestamp.
So if I break my KOReader config, I can reset all and copy the .adds for restore the KOReader.
For now this is what I did with my Kobo but I am thinking new stuff so if I will do something new I will write about it.