Read Books On Your Nintendo Switch

Last update: Nov 23, 2022

Overview

eBookReaderSwitch

Features:

Saves last page number
Reads PDF, EPUB, CBZ, and XPS files
Dark and light mode
Landscape reading view
Portrait reading view
Touch screen controls
- Touch the botton/top of the screen to zoom in/out and left and right to change the page.
Books read from /switch/eBookReader/books

TODO:

Do some extra testing on file compatibility.
2 pages side by side in landscape.
Hardware lock to prevent accidental touches (maybe Vol- ?) (?).
Save orientation, and dark mode settings.

Screen Shots:

Dark Mode Help Menu:

Dark Mode Landscape Reading (With the Switch horizonal):

Dark Mode Portrait Reading (With the Switch vertical):

Dark Mode Book Selection:

Light Mode Landscape Reading:

Credit:

moronigranja - For allowing more file support
NX-Shell Team - A good amount of the code is from an old version of their application.

Building

Release built with libnx release v4.1.3.
Uses freetype and other libs which comes with switch-portlibs via devkitPro pacman:

pacman -S libnx switch-portlibs

then run:

make mupdf
make

to build.

If you don't have twili debugger installed, delete the -ltwili flag on the Makefile to compile:

LIBS: -ltwili

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Comments

Simple touch controls

Hey! I added simple touch controls and some tweaks in the inputs and the status bar. I don't know how to make touch gestures so it's just simple touches to move between pages and zoom heh Also I uploaded the binary on the releases section on my fork

opened by Quest84 5
Added CI/CD pipeline with artifacts

Added a CI/CD pipeline with artifacts, now after each commit you can download a binary file for tests. WARNING: The twili module is excluded for this pipeline.

Visit https://github.com/Disinterpreter/eBookReaderSwitch/actions/runs/1084880507 for checking the pipeline

opened by Disinterpreter 2
implement file assoc

Implemented passing an ebook title as an argument. With the additional config placed in "/config/nx-hbmenu/fileassoc/" you can open them directly from hbmenu. https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Menu#File_Associations

You'd want to ship this with the corresponding icons in a zip.

(I removed run because it didn't do anything)

opened by HookedBehemoth 0
eBook list won't scroll down

eBook list bigger than expected. Have to highlight ebooks off-screen in order to read them. Any chance of making an update that allows you to see ALL eBooks on your list?

Thanks!

opened by nanashi89 1

Releases(0.4.0)

0.4.0(Jul 30, 2021)
Changelog:

Simple touch controls, that's it.

Touch the bottom/top of the screen to zoom in/out and left/right to change the page.

Minor input fixes and tweaks on the status bar icons.

All the work done on this release is thanks to @Quest84!
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
eBookReaderSwitch-0.4.0.nro(42.66 MB)
0.3.1-beta(Jul 13, 2021)

Built with the latest version of LibNX, now it works with AMS 19.4
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
eBookReaderSwitch-0.3.1.nro(42.66 MB)
0.3.0-beta(Oct 30, 2019)

Moronigranja fixed the file format issues with some pdfs, and all epub, cbz, and xps.
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
eBookReaderSwitch-0.3.0-beta.nro(43.03 MB)
0.2.2-beta(Sep 24, 2019)
Changelog:

All button prompts are now images instead of text.

Example: " 'B' - Exit " is replaced with " (switch_b_control.png) Exit " (terrible explanation).

Possibly unsupported file formats now have an image to the left of the file.

Things to look forward to:

Other file type support

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
eBookReader-0.2.2-beta.nro(43.01 MB)
0.2.1-beta(Sep 22, 2019)
Changelog:

Now saves page numbers in "/switch/eBookReader/saved_pages.cfg"

New app icon image (ugly but works).

Things to look forward to:

Other file type support

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
eBookReader-0.2.1-beta.nro(43.71 MB)
0.2.0-beta(Sep 20, 2019)
Changelog:

Built with the new LibNx update so controls will work fine in 9.0.0.

Added dark mode, enabled by default (press "-" to toggle).

Due to me just inverting colors, colored images wouldn't look so nice.

When reading a book there is a help menu if you press the "+" button.

The book folder is created by default on the start.

Things to look forward to:

Other file type support

Enjoy!
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
eBookReader-0.2.0-beta.nro(43.68 MB)
0.1.1-beta(Sep 7, 2019)
Changelog:

Apparently some people couldn't start the app, should be fixed

In portrait mode, the text now displays at the top of the screen instead of the side.

Things to look forward to:

File type support

Dark mode?

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
eBookReader-0.1.1-beta.nro(43.63 MB)
0.1.0-beta(Sep 3, 2019)

I've got something working now, doesn't crash your switch and loads files! Currently, most pdf files work, but all of my tested xps, cbz, and ePub files don't work. All books go into "/switch/eBookReader/books/" make sure the folder is created or it may crash. The screen is black for multiple seconds before actually loading, just wait. Enjoy!
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
eBookReader-0.1.0-beta.nro(43.63 MB)