Drider 3DS

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Drider
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General
Authoringolemo
TypeOther Apps
Version0.6
LicenseMixed
Last Updated2017/11/15
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Drider is a epub reader for the Nintendo 3DS. It is written in Lua using Rinnegatamante's Lua Player Plus 3DS.

Installation

Available in 3DSX and CIA formats.

  • CIA - Install the .cia with the CIA manager of your choice.
  • 3DSX - Use the .3dsx provided with the Homebrew Launcher.

Put your ebooks in a folder called books at the root of your SD card.

Drider works best on text-heavy, low-formatting books such as novels.

User guide

Limitations

  • Does not support css or any kind of inline styling, such as <b> or <i> tags.
  • Text rendering on the 3DS is not very good so you will see plenty of bad kerning.
  • Drider can crash with books that contain large images. If the images are not important then consider disabling them (x button at the book select screen).
  • Does not handle non-ascii text well. If you're reading a utf-8 encoded book then it tries to translate some of the most common symbols to ascii equivalents, but the conversion is incomplete so mojibake is common.

Bookmark

  • If an ebook has a page bookmarked then drider will jump to that page when you load the ebook.
  • Only one page can be bookmarked at a time per ebook.

Controls

Selecting:

Up/Down - Choose a book to read

A - Select the book

X - Toggle loading of images

Start - Exit

Home - Return to the Home Menu (cia-only)

Reading:

Up/Down - Scroll. You can also drag the touch screen

D-Pad Left/Right - Switch pages

A - Bookmark/Unbookmark a page

Tap an image - View it more closely

Start - Exit

Select - Go back to the book selection

Home - Return to the Home Menu (cia-only)

Image viewing:

C-Pad - Pan across the image

D-Pad Up/Down - Zoom in/out respectively

B - Return to the page you were reading

Start - Exit

Home - Return to the Home Menu (cia-only)

Screenshots

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Changelog

v0.6

  • Images now show for more than just the first page of the book.

v0.5

  • This release makes the scrolling much smoother and adds support for images. Other minor fixes too.

v0.4

  • Fixed crash bug when trying to view epubs that contain high numerical html entities (e.g. &8230;).

v0.3

  • CIA users no longer have to copy files to your sd card. Except the books, still have to copy those.
  • More pretty menu.
  • More stability.

v0.2

  • This time there should be a unique id.

v0.1

  • First release.

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