Magazines

Magazines have their own place in Kevra, like a newsstand: kept apart from your books, grouped by title (for example, “Desperta Ferro”) and with each issue in order.

How your magazines get in

Magazines come from your cloud libraries (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Telegram…). You decide which folders hold magazines:

• When picking folders in a cloud, each folder is set to Books, Magazines or Comics: choose Magazines and everything inside goes to Magazines.
• If Kevra spots a folder that looks like one, it suggests it: They're magazines or No, they're books. It never marks them on its own.

Kevra reads the issue number, date and topic from each file name, and the cover from its first page. See Cloud libraries.

Where to find them

In the Library tab, switch library and choose Magazines: the magazines from all your clouds are there together. You can search by magazine, publisher or tag, and sort by name, recently read or newest issue.

Inside a magazine, Continue reading takes you to the issue you were on. You'll also see issues you don't have, dimmed, because other readers have them: hide them with Hide the ones I don't have.

Reading without downloading

When you open an issue, Kevra asks your cloud only for the pages it needs, so you can start reading right away even if the PDF is huge. Your place is saved and you'll see it on your other devices.

• Reading without downloading needs a connection.
• For a trip, use Save to read offline: the whole issue is saved to your library and isn't deleted automatically.
• Kevra keeps the last 5 issues you've read without downloading on your phone, and deletes the oldest when you open another.

The magazine reader

• Tap the sides to turn the page; pinch to zoom. In landscape or on a tablet you get a two-page spread.
• Magazine settings (settings icon at the top):
  • Turning pages: Page by page, Page turn (the sheet folds like paper) or Continuous scroll.
  • Legibility: Original colours, More contrast or Black and white, for grey scans.
  • Sharp text (beta): on scanned pages, rewrites the text on top so it stays sharp at any zoom.
  • Text alongside (split screen): on a tablet in landscape, tap a paragraph and read it on the right.
• Text mode: the page as regular text, at whatever size you like. If the PDF is a scan, Kevra recognizes the text on your phone (it may contain a few typos).
• Translate: in text mode and in text alongside, if the magazine is in another language. The first time, Kevra asks before downloading the translator (about 30 MB per language); after that it translates offline and the page never leaves your phone. It's a machine translation.

Fixing details

If you manage the library, a magazine has Edit details: name, publisher, category, tags, frequency and cover. You can also fix an issue's details or group several series under one title. If something that came in as a magazine is really a comic, choose This is a comic → Move to Comics in its page's menu.

Issues in the wrong magazine

Kevra puts together issues with the same name even when it's written differently: «Microhobby 12», «micro hobby 13» and «Microhobby España 14» go to the same magazine. If one still lands in the wrong place:

• Move to another magazine: press and hold an issue to select it (tap others to select several), then tap the move icon. Pick the magazine, search for it by name or create one with New magazine…. The issues stay there even when you sync again, sorted by number.
• Merge with…: if a magazine came out split in two, open one, tap ⋮ → Merge with… and pick the other. All its issues move to this one.

Kevra learns from your fixes: the next issues with that name go straight to the right magazine, for other readers too. Whoever manages the library can do this.