Plato is a document reader for Kobo's e-readers.

Documentation: GUIDE, MANUAL and BUILD.

This fork #

This fork contains small opinated changes and features to my personal usage. Some modifications were taken from thataboy.

Fixes: #

• Hide menus before take screenshot

Features: #

• Screenshot save path default to /mnt/onboard/Screenshots but can change in Settings.toml.
• New swipe interactions while reading:
  • up/down (on left side): increase/decrease brightness
  • up/down (on right side): increase/decrease warmth (if compatible)
• New view modes:
  • Larger thumbnail (2x size)
  • Cover view
• New items to menu:
  • Suspend
  • Power off
  • USB
    • Force reconnect
    • Auto connect

Supported firmwares #

Any 4.X.Y firmware, with X ≥ 6, will do.

Supported devices #

• Libra Colour.
• Clara Colour.
• Clara BW.
• Elipsa 2E.
• Clara 2E.
• Libra 2.
• Sage.
• Elipsa.
• Nia.
• Libra H₂O.
• Forma.
• Clara HD.
• Aura H₂O Edition 2.
• Aura Edition 2.
• Aura ONE.
• Glo HD.
• Aura H₂O.
• Aura.
• Glo.
• Touch C.
• Touch B.

Supported formats #

• PDF, CBZ, FB2, MOBI, XPS and TXT via MuPDF.
• ePUB through a built-in renderer.
• DJVU via DjVuLibre.

Features #

• Crop the margins.
• Continuous fit-to-width zoom mode with line preserving cuts.
• Rotate the screen (portrait ↔ landscape).
• Adjust the contrast.
• Define words using dictd dictionaries.
• Annotations, highlights and bookmarks.
• Retrieve articles from online sources through hooks (an example wallabag article fetcher is provided).

Donations #