The PineNote. Depending on your definition of “proper”, since it ships with GNOME and AFAICT only supports Wayland, and Wayland doesn’t have many compositors that work well on a device with no keyboard.
Looks like the one this is talking about is expected to be open hardware + open software. Given its based on the ESP32 chipset, should be relatively inexpensive and fairly standard
That holds if you read stuff that is mostly well known. I read in swedish a lot, and a fair amount of obscure philosophy and science stuff, and it is not always available there :/
Nice.
Now, how long till I can get an ebook reader / eink device with proper open source software? Or anyone have any recommendations?
The PineNote. Depending on your definition of “proper”, since it ships with GNOME and AFAICT only supports Wayland, and Wayland doesn’t have many compositors that work well on a device with no keyboard.
Looks like the one this is talking about is expected to be open hardware + open software. Given its based on the ESP32 chipset, should be relatively inexpensive and fairly standard
https://www.crowdsupply.com/ink-console/ink-console
The pocketbook is the best I know of on the market right now. I have one (bought it a few months back) and it is exactly what was advertised.
Can i still read my kindle bought stuff on it?
Iirc kindle books come with DRM, which you can break using a calibre plugin.
Honestly downloading books from libgen is so much easier I don’t think I’ve bought a kindle book in 10 years.
That holds if you read stuff that is mostly well known. I read in swedish a lot, and a fair amount of obscure philosophy and science stuff, and it is not always available there :/
I generally read moderately niche fiction titles and they’re all there, but I am monolingual so everything is in English.