Please through up some feature requests (highlighting is an existing one). Otherwise, it wont happen as I look at the feature requests site each release to pick a few that make sense to me or the community wants.
https://feats.kavitareader.com/

https://feats.kavitareader.com/posts/86/highlighting-saving-selected-text-annotating-for-epub-and-pdf

No. Tachiyomi uses the API directly, but has some hacks in the code, because of Tachiyomi's architecture. Chapter 0 of a volume means the whole volume is represented in that one file. So if you read it in Tachiyomi, then you'd expect the whole volume to be read in Kavita.

Flattening is where if you have just loose leaf chapters and no volume, Kavita would originally serve as the DB ordered it, so you'd have to click through a pointless Volume 0. Now, everything is put in one and minimized as much as possible to get you to your media as quick as possible.

What is this goodreads bookshelf in Readarr?

f there's a method to edit the Metadata of the epub and write it back to the file that I haven't found that would be great.

I got you. We have a wiki article just for this thing:
https://wiki.kavitareader.com/en/guides/misc/calibre

Yeah, those kindle-like devices really suck in that there is no way to load a modern website on them, you have to maintain a non-modern javascript app. It's just a ton of maintenance and extra testing that I'd have to do to support them. I haven't found the email service to be that bad, but agree, the extra step is annoying.

Phone app is coming for sure. It's always been in my vision for the software because I got to have a better Sync support than Plex. I've been hinting at it in my past 4 release notes, basically this 0.7.x are all massive foundational changes that are required before I can even think about starting on mobile development.

Just know it is not a metadata editor, like Calibre. It's focused on Exploration of your media and consumption. You'll still need to boot up Calibre to get the metadata into your epubs.

I never read on my PC personally. The app is more aimed for using on your tablet. Kindle isn't trivial because it doesn't support modern js. So it's not really feasible, hence why we allow you to setup a Kindle on your account and then send files directly to it (or other devices/email).

Glad to hear it :)

If you're using the demo, you're not going to be able to do a lot of the things, because you're not the owner of the server.

You would be able to import a cbl or create a manual reading list, but some things are admin only, like editing metadata from the UI. Would be weird if a random user on your server could grief your metadata.

There is actually a feature request for using a non-card based view for rendering out series, but not many people from the community have shown interest.

> When trying to filter, there is no option for Author or Illustrator. Can I add those, just not in the demo?

Wow, what a find. I can't believe it was missed in 3 releases now. I'll add those in the next release.

> Is there an option to at least remove the cover from the series summary that I am not seeing in the Demo?

No, the cover images are how nearly every server works. Although, we do have custom theme support, so you probably could easily by using a custom theme for yourself.

> Is there an option to disable the translucency/fake glass effect not present in the demo?

No option needed. You can use a custom theme and just override those variables so it can be to your liking.

> In the Book list, can we get an option in the menu to skip to reading to save the clicking and scrolling?

I didn't fully understand what you're asking but for the epub reader, it will save where you scrolled to and resume that when you open. If you're seeing it different, it is likely due to people being on the demo, as a new release just came out today.

That was a joke btw about the notes as most people don't read them and they are usually notoriously long.

Yeah, there really aren't any book readers that support page synchronization, like at all. It could be due to not many projects existing or because epubs are quite complicated and with virtual paging, it can be very difficult to store progress back that would be beneficial to the user.

I think most users either download them or realistically save the web app to their homescreen and use the built-in reader, which is pretty good.

1. All Series or your library view
2. Kavita doesn't support adding via the UI nor likely will. But you can add it to the underlying storage and either use the API to trigger a scan, the UI, or just let the folder watcher do it's thing and scan it in for you.
3. Into a reading list? Usually I bulk select items and use the context menu to add to a reading list, but I think CBL import is much more flexible and easy for big reading orders.
4. You can remove them via internal metadata or just remove them from the UI. Not sure if you're asking for something else.
5. The pencil item
6. On Deck is in progress or recently released chapters of a series you might have finished but new stuff was released. You can remove it via Customize Dashboard.
7. See above.
8. You can't remove Home
9. I'm not sure why you would. No program to my knowledge has no cover art.

I would highly recommend you visit our Wiki to learn about how to use Kavita. A lot of your questions indicate that you haven't played around much with it.

Seems like you're not reading my release notes because a mobile app is something I'm looking at building for Kavita.

Although CDisplayEx does have this out of the box if you buy it (I believe it's a one time)