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Cadmus

Cadmus is a document reader for Kobo’s e-readers.

Documentation

This site is the primary source of documentation for Cadmus. Use the sidebar to navigate, or start at the overview for installation, usage, and workflows.

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.

Screenshots

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Acknowledgments

Cadmus is a fork of Plato, a document reader created by Bastien Dejean.