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What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader (itsfoss.com)

submitted 9 months ago by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 10 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

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

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] SuperFola@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

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

[-] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

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?

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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. :)

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Here a few link that you might find useful:

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

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.