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An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now

posted by spiraldancing on Thursday January 30 2020, @06:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the there's-an-app-for-that dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Anonymous_Coward:

An Open Source eReader That's Free of Corporate Restrictions Is Exactly What I Want Right Now:

I get it. The Kindle and its ability to shop for and instantly buy books anywhere using wifi or Whispernet are incredibly convenient, and it’s what’s made Amazon’s hardware the obvious choice for consuming ebooks. But supporting awful companies like Amazon is getting harder and harder if you were born with a conscience, and right about now, an open source ebook reader, free of corporate restrictions, sounds like the perfect Kindle alternative.

A fully open-hardware eReader, it includes the following design specs: ARM Cortex M4 processor, 400x300 monochromatic resolution, microSD card reader, lithium-polymer rechargeable battery, audiobook-capable headphone jack, and audio-command-capable microphone.

The Open Book Project was born from a contest held by Hackaday and that encouraged hardware hackers to find innovative and practical uses for the Arduino-based Adafruit Feather development board ecosystem. The winner of that contest was the Open Book Project which has been designed and engineered from the ground up to be everything devices like the Amazon Kindle or Rakuten Kobo are not.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by ze on Thursday January 30 2020, @08:35PM (5 children)

    by ze (8197) on Thursday January 30 2020, @08:35PM (#951401)

    They charge $60/yr here for the library card, since the residents of my county voted against the tax to keep the libraries open.
    They were closed for over a year before they brought some back as a pay service.
    Also the selection generally sucks, and everything you wanted tended to have a waiting list. Maybe that last part's better now that it's down to paying patrons?

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @09:04PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @09:04PM (#951423)

    Murica, fuck yeah!

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @10:53PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @10:53PM (#951468)

      Libraries brought to you by "back when billionaires actually gave a shit"

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @11:03PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @11:03PM (#951472)

        Too many libraries today are really Vagrant Warming Stations and Bedbug Dropoff/Collection Points.

  • (Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Friday January 31 2020, @06:11PM (1 child)

    by ElizabethGreene (6748) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 31 2020, @06:11PM (#951873) Journal

    Could you share where this is?

    • (Score: 1) by ze on Friday January 31 2020, @07:27PM

      by ze (8197) on Friday January 31 2020, @07:27PM (#951907)

      Douglas County (where the Douglas Fir comes from), Oregon