[Info-vax] somewhat off-topic: command line on iOS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rt2l6g$cb6$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> On 2021-01-05 21:02:52 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
> 
> > I like the books app, but haven't figure out yet how to get a 
> > substantial number organized.
> 
> Files can be renamed in Books.
> 
> Click on the ellipsis, and select Rename.
> 
> Apple offers "Collections" as a way to partition the library contents.

I'll have to investigate that.  Ideally there could be collections of 
collections, but I don't need that (yet).

A few years ago, I bought an ePub reader (also reads .TXT and .PDF 
files, but of course is designed for ePub)---intentionally not a 
Kindle---which worked fine until a) most of my locally stored books 
disappeared and b) not all of them could be downloaded from the cloud 
backup.  In addition, some I can no longer read because the encryption 
method is no longer supported.  Some, but not all, of these I can read 
with Adobe Digital Editions, which I had installed on the iPad for 
completely different reasons.  But for reading on the beach, I want an 
e-ink reader, not an iPad (less glare, longer battery life, handier 
(than an iPad Pro).

Unfortunately, the support people have made no progress at all.  While 
for several reasons I want to stick with ePubs, I need a good ePub 
reader which actually works.  One disadvantage of the one (tolino) I 
have is that while it is easy to get books onto it, it is difficult to 
get them off.  That means that it is not trivial to make a backup.  
Ideally, that wouldn't be needed, since there is the cloud and one can 
copy stuff between the reader and the cloud, sync automatically, and so 
on.  Of course, a backup contains not just the books but also my own 
notes connected with them.  As such, something like that is probably not 
portable, but still it would be nice to have a supported means of making 
a backup to an external medium.

Any suggestions?

An advantage of the tolino system (when it works) is that I could also 
read stuff on the iPad, in those rare cases where I needed high 
resolution and/or colour.