It's 2022 And You Need A PHD In Arsing Around To Open An Ebook On Android
On my new android handset, I installed fbreader from fdroid, because this worked for me before, last time I was on android. I downloaded a book in epub format using the builtin browser chrome. At this point, the book should become visible in the reader app's view of what's available. It's not there. The categories like "by author", "by title" are empty. Choosing "library" or something brings up a complaint from the developers about how google has blocked their authentication page or something I don't care about. There does seem to be an option to browse the local filesystem and find the book yourself. This exposes the dreaded Android filesystem via the cryptically-named "Device" and "Memory card", which tends to be the built-in memory. Trying "Memory card" gives permission denied, so I try "Device". The result is what looks like the root filesystem of android linux, which is internals from ...