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[Help] Looking for an ebook reader with highlight syncing across devices (lemmy.today)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Outwit1294@lemmy.today to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/31866583

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/31866530

I am looking for an ebook reader which can highlight text in various colors. Everything should get synced across iOS and desktop. By sync, I mean that highlights I make in a PDF on one device should be treated as an editable highlight on the other device, and not as a permanent part of the PDF. This is to be used for textbooks.

Currenty, I use Apple Books but it is very slow and I cannot sync it outside the Apple environment.

I am okay with free options, self hosted options and one time purchases. I am not so keen on subscriptions but will consider a cheap one.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

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[–] 4k93n2@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i havnt tried it but librera on android has a sync option that uses google drive

https://librera.mobi/faq/setting-up-synchronization/

i think it only does highlighting in pdfs though.

for other things like epubs, you can select text and then bookmark it, you can add in your own notes to the text, but they are mainly used for navigation. when you add a bookmark first, the text is visually highlighted but it goes away as soon as you scroll and i dont know if theres a setting to keep it highlighted

[–] Outwit1294@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

It is good but it doesn’t have an iOS app.

[–] jacksquat@what.forfi.win 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I use Yomu across my devices and it works great. I'll use highlighting for when switching between phone and ipad especially in between chapters. The formatting difference keeps me where I left off with the highlighting. It is $8 one time purchase.

[–] Outwit1294@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

It looks good but it is not available for Linux/Windows or as a web app.