Re: ebook reader recommendations?

2020-12-04 Thread Benjamin Slade 
For hardware, I too have found Kobo hardware pretty decent - 
they're fairly hackable and are well supported by third-party 
open/free software. The Remarkable tablets are also supposed to be 
pretty hackable, but they're a bit pricey and I have no direct 
experience here.


For software, I really like Koreader - 
https://github.com/koreader/koreader - it works really well on 
eink devices (as well as Android tablets and even, to a certain 
extent, desktop linux).


—Ben



On 2020-12-03T01:58:22-0700, Pierre Neidhardt  
wrote:


> Hi Guixers!

> I'm looking for an open ebook reader, at least something that 
> runs free

> software.

> I found this fascinating project, although for now you have to 
> assemble

> it yourself:

> https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

> More conventionally, I found this one, although it seems to be 
> hard to

> find on the market:

> https://github.com/bq/cervantes

> Any recommendations, anyone?

> Cheers!

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Re: ebook reader recommendations?

2020-12-04 Thread Pierre Neidhardt 
Thanks for the feedback, I'll take a look!

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Re: ebook reader recommendations?

2020-12-04 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira via 
Em 04/12/2020 09:34, Sébastien Lerique escreveu:
> On a side-note, the same Davis also develops RCU 
> , which I would love to manage to package 
> for Guix, but my first attempts have led into deeper waters than I could 
> solve, fixing problems with python-pyside-2. If anyone else is interested in 
> this, let me know and we can get it done!

Don't forget to also make this into a thread on the Guix development mailing 
list and open an issue/task/bug in the tracker so Guix community can better 
organize the efforts. :)


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Re: ebook reader recommendations?

2020-12-04 Thread Sébastien Lerique 



On 04 Dec 2020 at 11:56, Edouard Klein  wrote:

Pierre Neidhardt writes:


Hi John,

Thanks for the hint.
I suppose this is the product you were talking about:

  https://remarkable.com/

Can you expand on how "hackable" it is?  Can we replace the 
software?

If not, what kind of access to the OS do we have?  Any link?


You basically can SSH into it. It's running Linux on ARM. As far 
as I know the UI and support
software is closed source, but there is a great community 
building open

source tools for the device.

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable


There's also the Parabola-rM project which replaces the entire 
reMarkable OS with a foss one.


http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/

On a side-note, the same Davis also develops RCU 
, which I would love to manage 
to package for Guix, but my first attempts have led into deeper 
waters than I could solve, fixing problems with python-pyside-2. 
If anyone else is interested in this, let me know and we can get 
it done!


Cheers,
S.

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

2020-12-04 Thread John Soo 
 Ah I see. 

 
My mistake.It appears there are proprietary components inside the 
remarkable. My apologies.
 

 
- John

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

2020-12-04 Thread Edouard Klein 


Pierre Neidhardt writes:

> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for the hint.
> I suppose this is the product you were talking about:
>
>   https://remarkable.com/
>
> Can you expand on how "hackable" it is?  Can we replace the software?
> If not, what kind of access to the OS do we have?  Any link?

You basically can SSH into it. It's running Linux on ARM. As far as I know the 
UI and support
software is closed source, but there is a great community building open
source tools for the device.

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

>
> Cheers!

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

2020-12-03 Thread John Soo 
  
  

 Hi Pierre!
  

  
It’s not really an e-reader but the remarkable series is powered by a lot of 
free software and is very hackable.   
  

  
Maybe one day our images will be small enough to put onto these small systems :)
  

  
- John

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

2020-12-03 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira via 
Em 03/12/2020 05:58, Pierre Neidhardt escreveu:
> I'm looking for an open ebook reader, at least something that runs free
> software.

Perhaps this question should be directed to the team inside FSF responsible for 
doing hardware evaluation, namely, Respects Your Freedom.


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Re: ebook reader recommendations?

2020-12-03 Thread Timotej Lazar 
Hi!

Pierre Neidhardt  [2020-12-03 09:58:22+0100]:
> I'm looking for an open ebook reader, at least something that runs free
> software.

I’m happy with my Kobo Glo. By default it has a pretty hackable Linux
install with a proprietary UI, but it’s possible to run koreader¹ on it,
and even compile the kernel & uboot yourself². It does need some
firmware blobs for initializing the display, but other than that it can
run with just free software (except for wi-fi).

Unforunately the chipset is not supported in the mainstream kernel, so
it’s limited to the ancient 2.6.something kernel released by Kobo, which
does not work with the newer glibcs. I did manage to get Alpine running
on it with musl. Newer Kobo models are available and apparently just as
hackable, so that might be worth checking out.

¹ https://github.com/koreader/koreader
² https://github.com/lgeek/okreader

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

2020-12-03 Thread Pierre Neidhardt 
Hi Timotej, thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into it.

I'm realizing that my question was ambiguous: I'm looking for hardware
indeed, not software :)

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