I only open office documents when I know exactly where they've come from, and
I trust the full chain of upstream sources to have reasonably secure
practices. In other words, I don't open many office documents, and like
Stallman, I tend to insist on being given OpenDocument formats, not
pengnuin wrote:
>> AOSP definitely isn't perfect, but better than the kind of stuff one can
expect on a Amazon Fire shmablet out of the box...
True, but that refers to the *specific* exploit they tested. I'm sure you
know better than to think that malware can never infect a GNU-Linux system.
Getting a user to open an untrusted file from a random website, when the file
type is one that is a *known vector for malware* on at least one
...one has Windows 7. I do not want to pay for Windows 8.
Free upgrade to win 10 still works. Just saying. I don't think you should use
win but MS gives it out for free contrary to their marketing hype that the
free upgrade days are done and over with.
Thanks for the tip MagicBanana. So I need to install xchm from the Trisquel
repos? You are confident I am not putting my system at risk by using that to
open a .CHM file from a random website, even give its capacity for malware
delivery (as shown in the link I gave)?
True, but it is a known vector the delivery of malware, at least on Windows:
https://blog.checkpoint.com/2015/05/12/the-microsoft-help-file-chm-may-enslave-you/
Also, there seems to be no default program for opening .CHM files on Trisquel
7. I decided to take the risk and open one, but the
Those actually look like good devices I could live with for a price I'd be
willing to pay!
Thanks for mentioning it, I might actually get one. AOSP definitely isn't
perfect, but better than the kind of stuff one can expect on a Amazon Fire
shmablet out of the box...
I've been thinking of getting either the Inkbook Classic 2 or Inkbook Prime.
They run AOSP and you can install F-Droid on them to install reader programs
that are free. There was a recent episode of Gnu World Order about this
reader and it seems like a decent choice over a Kindle or
>but the download options seems to consist of torrents with no seeders
There are various options, two of them work just fine without javascript,
namely b-ok.org and bookfi.net
Example ->
It certainly has a big database, but the download options seems to consist of
torrents with no seeders, and .chm files, which seems like a dodgy thing to
open on a local machine from an untrusted source.
teh largest database -> http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
There's always Project Gutenberg. They have over 56,000 gratis e-books
available for download, donations welcome:
http://www.gutenberg.org
Thanks for all the help guys.
With ebooks, I don't have to buy Canadian, I think I will look for a
better supplier.
I agree with aloniv on the point of avoiding DRM, the few books I looked at
on their site all say that they come with Adobe DRM. Opening epub however
shouldn't be an issue for e.g. fbreader.
The deletion of books RMS occasionally talks about refers to the Amazon
(Sw/K)indle, which was used
kobo uses DRM on some/all of their ebooks, so it's best to avoid getting
ebooks from there.
https://www.kobo.com/help/en-US/article/3501/using-adobe-digital-editions
Use Calibre !
Shouldn't be a problem to open nearly any ebook !
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Calibre
As to whether ebooks get deleted, I think that's only a problem
on dedicated ebook readers.
On 18-03-26 03:30 PM, great...@riseup.net wrote:
Throw them a mail and ask them?
Your right, will do, sorry for the noise
Throw them a mail and ask them?
Hi Everyone
I want to buy a ebook from here :
https://www.kobo.com/ca/en
Do you think I will be able to open it with fbread?
I am in Canada, Chapters-Indigo bought up almost all the book stores
here and they are our main supplier. KOBO is their line of ebooks.
Their desktop software runs on
I use a Thinkpad X60 tablet with Calibre.
No eInk, three hour battery life, and it feels like a large hardback as
opposed to the trade paperback feel of a kindle, but it'll do.
I wish I could implement a password on my e-reader (Kobo Aura).
It's the only feature I really miss.
A PIN, anything.
Also, I wish I had downloaded more internal dictionaries before breaking the
WIFI inside, but oh well, it's a minor inconvenience.
Anyway, I'd keep that in mind if I wanted
I have a Sony one. They can be bought for very cheap, but they run a
proprietary OS.
If you want a vaguely libre ebook reader, I think the best thing is to build
one yourself, from something like a BeagleBone Black and an e-ink screen, and
some buttons, and install a reading program. It
Do you know about an epub ebook reader? No features. Only a sd card port.
Thank you.
Thanks Stefano, but I've not the necessary skill to do it :-(
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 11:15 PM, gamebo...@lavabit.com wrote:
I've done that with my Nook Simple Touch, but I still don't think it's
running fully free software, not even counting the drivers.
Ideally, one could install Replicant + free/libre apps on the NST
making it fully free. After a
Do you know if there is a free/libre alternative to the Kindle?
Many thanks
Some old ebook readers support http://openinkpot.org/, I don't know how
free it is, nor how free a system running on them could be.
If you aren't looking for e-paper, then you can use nearly any GNU/Linux
or Replicant device.
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Thanks Michał Masłowski.
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:34:25 +0200 (CEST), you wrote:
Do you know if there is a free/libre alternative to the Kindle?
Many thanks
Not ideal, but you can get a Nook Simple Touch for a very low price, root it and
install only free software on it.
You can find more information on the xda
I've done that with my Nook Simple Touch, but I still don't think it's
running fully free software, not even counting the drivers.
I've got a Nook Simple Touch, and if all you are interested in is an ebook
reader that you can use to read non-drm ebooks then just turn the wifi off
and keep it off. Don't upgrade the firmware. It's still running nonfree
software, but you've basically turned it into an appliance like a
Remember the moral part of software development is on the developers, not
the users. The users are the victims of non-free software, but it's not
immoral to use it. But it's dangerous.
And stupid. Well, usually.
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