What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader
What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader
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.
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
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.
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
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?
Here a few link that you might find useful:
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. :)
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.
Hey, it is free to wish/dream. lol
Oooo I'll keep an eye on that one!