Duocan It is an alternative operating system to the operating system that Amazon includes in all its Kindle devices and that emerged thanks to a group of Chinese developers in order to achieve better compatibility of Chinese characters with the famous Amazon eBook reader.
Today it has become a very powerful operating system and that improves in many respects the official Amazon operating system. For all this, there are already many users who have decided to install it on their devices.
It is vitally important to know that Duokan does not replace or eliminate the official Amazon system at any time and that it does not require any jailbreak process either and that it instills so much respect in many users of devices of this type. Once Duokan is installed, we can choose normally on which operating system we want to start our Kindle.
It is fully compatible with different models of Kindle, with the additional advantage that you can continue to use Caliber to manage the device.
What are the advantages of installing Duokan for us?
Undoubtedly the main advantage that this new alternative operating system to the official Kindle devices will offer us is the PDF file support, much more advanced than the official operating system.
Also some of the advantages that we can find in Duokan are:
- Much faster loading of PDF files
- Elimination of margins from the screen which will allow us to make the most of it
- Several different types of zoom
- Voice reader in English and Chinese with the possibility of choosing male and female voices
- On-the-fly conversion to text from a PDF, known as reflow
- Possibility of partial updating of the page with also greater speed
- Possibility of showing the beginning of the page and the end of the previous one, which will greatly facilitate our reading
- Ability to use fully custom TTF fonts
- It incorporates the ability to natively read other formats not supported by the official Kindle system, such as EPUB, DJVU or CHM
- System to move with the advance of the page very in the style of comics
- MP3 player much more manageable and simple than the one that we can find in the official version
- Possibility of using the personalized screensaver images that different users of this type of device like so much
What drawbacks does Duokan have?
The drawback of the Duokan operating system we could say that it is only one and it is its language since It is not translated into Spanish and is entirely in Englishs and with a few words in Chinese, their native language. At the moment it is not expected to be translated into Spanish, although after trying it we can tell you that even though it is not in Spanish it is not too complicated to use.
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Source - at.duokan.com
Very interesting, I did not know of its existence. If it goes that well, it still uses caliber and supports ePub… I'm afraid I'll have to give it a try. Mobi take up more space than e-Pubs.
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Good morning Daniel.
Duokan is going to have an important place in this blog so we have or have started with a general article and the most basic, soon you will see progress and Duokan in Spanish.
You can find the source of the article at the end of the article, you will find the options, pros and cons on all the sites exactly the same and the design of the article is my own design and that of thousands of other authors that you can find anywhere.
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There is no for kindle touch 🙁