v0.1.10

[Apps] tab in Sidle

One of my recent obsessions against depression is to make Kindle apps. This repo contains 1.5 (sidle-native, and bokai that can be run via Kterm as a cli tool) of them, and then there are 3 more doing other stuff:

• karyll, a iA Writer inspired writing app that can pair with a bluetooth keyboard, primarily for the Scribe but should also work competently on newer hardware like Colorsoft (in gray mode, color mode is not good), which has good enough CJK support, according to myself as a CJK user.
• steb, a frontend for downloading Standard Ebooks directly to Kindles, if you already have bokai in /mnt/us/extensions it will also convert the azw3 to KFX so that on Scribe one can handwrite notes with the pen, otherwise you can't do it with azw3.
• kfxdedrm-fe, a frontend for kfxdedrm, together with bokai one can just convert the kindle store books to epub and read it with koreader. It's actually makes more sense to use the KOReader plugin and do everything within KOReader instead, if you think about it, but the FE offers a nicer book cover grid picker, in my not so humble opinion :)

I actually don't really use steb and kfxdedrm-fe myself, and they are just built for fun. But in short, still, there are too many apps to manage now, and every time any of the apps got modified, I need to repeat the progress of plugging them in, replacing the bin, unplugging them and test. I was thinking that I should build yet another app to manage them, check what's new, what's stale, what should be updated, etc. But then I think, hack, why not just let Sidle handle it just like books. So now I have an apps tab along with books and notes and files.

bokai v0.1.5

The kfxdedrm-fe detour was, honestly speaking, just a low hanging fruit that I can easily split from sidle-native, for distracting myself from the depressive negative thoughts. It's rewarding in a sense that by working with the latest version of Satsuoni's kfxdedrm now I can also decrypt azw3 which still have a few graphic novels in this format, and through them I found out a few defects in converting fixed-layout comics / manga / graphic novels into KFX and EPUB.

3 more defects of image only page box alignment has been found in converting Standard Ebooks into EPUB. They are also fixed.

And obviously there's a hard float / soft float build problem for older device backward compatibility, which I can't really test it myself. bokai now ship both and should be runnable within the koplugin without modification (but you need to update bokai to this release). kfxdedrm-fe will need a soft float build too, but it will come later.

Full Changelog: v0.1.9...v0.1.10