livelight.koplugin

KOReader plugin: adjust brightness and warmth in realtime by dragging your finger on the screen edges, just like in Kobo’s own software.

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Details

Niche: ebook and reading apps
Vertical: Horizontal
Function: Dev tools
Audience: Prosumer
AI stance: Not AI
Project type: Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner: koreader gesture brightness and warmth plugin for ereaders
Manually corrected: False

Yes KOReader plugins are simple Lua scripts that consume built-in touch gesture hooks and invoke existing device brightness APIs.

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Attention rank: #26 of 58 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 344 days after the earliest competitor.

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