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Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.works to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader

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What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader

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Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.works to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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When it comes to an eBook reader, the choices are limited. The market is dominated by Amazon’s proprietary Kindle along with a few other options like Kobo, Nook and Onyx. An interesting news for open source enthusiasts is that a developer, Joey Castillo, is working on creating an open
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    I’m waiting for the PineNote to be out of the development edition so I can get one. I do have an older kindle that I jailbroke a while ago and disabled OTA on. It still sucks, but it is better with KOreader.

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      reMarkable is also a good device, very light and you can enable SSH/root access with a simple toggle on settings. There are also entire repositories of software for it https://toltec-dev.org/ https://github.com/Evidlo/remarkable_entware

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        I hear the ReMarkable 2 lacks Bluetooth, so if you want to type you have to buy their keyboard which is $299 here in Canada. Altogether that makes it $768 plus tax, which is pretty steep for what it is.

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          That is, until the community reverse engineer the communication between the tablet and keyboard. It’s through the 5 pins, serial iirc? The complicated part would be to produce/find a decent keyboard

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        Do you have one? I’ve seen them used, and I think they’ve got a lot of potential. If I could use handwriting recognition to work with my Workflowy notes and edit markdown shut up and take my money. However a quick look at the Toltec stuff tells me it’s mainly terminals, kernel managers and Doom. Am I missing something?

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          Here a few link that you might find useful:

          • https://stachu.net/hacking-the-remarkable-eink-tablet/
          • https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
          • https://github.com/danielebruneo/remarkable2-hacks
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          Package list at http://bin.entware.net/armv7sf-k3.2/ and https://toltec-dev.org/stable/. Personally for me Syncthing is the most important thing I’ve running there to quickly sync files. After all we’re talking about a ePub/PDF reader not an Android tablet.

          Even thought it won’t ever be an android tablet with hundreds of applications, I like the fact that they actually don’t make you go through the nine circles of hell in order to SSH as root, compile code and install stuff on a device you bought. They don’t also include spyware like Google does. :)

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      Bringing things out of “early access for developers and enthusiasts only” isn’t something Pine64 does. They’ve got a laptop, phone, watch, tablet, ereader, and probably shit I’ve missed, none are ready for prime time and never will be.

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        Hey, it is free to wish/dream. lol

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      Oooo I’ll keep an eye on that one!

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