Re: ebook reader recommendations?

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

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

Thanks for the feedback, I'll take a look! -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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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

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

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

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Ah I see. My mistake.It appears there are proprietary components inside the remarkable. My apologies. - John

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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

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

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

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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. -- * Ativista do

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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

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

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 :) -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

ebook reader recommendations?

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