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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: 3, Funny) by barbara hudson on Friday January 31 2020, @03:33AM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday January 31 2020, @03:33AM (#951622) Journal

    I had to take it easy the last few days (broken rib from last February that never healed properly caused another pneumothorax Monday). Can you tell I'm bored? Can you? REALLY bored :-) Lots of naps to let it heal over yet again.

    Canonical showed off UbuntuTV at CES in 2012 [ubuntu.com], which cost some real $$$.

    this blog entry on their site is particularly embarassing in retrospect [ubuntu.com]

    Ubuntu Success @ CES 2012

    by Canonical on 12 January 2012

    Canonical and Ubuntu have made their CES debut this week, and already it’s been a resounding success. Ubuntu TV and Ubuntu One have both been of particular...

    Didn't take long for over-hyped UbuntuTV "success" to turn to total failure. All the announced deals ... disappeared.

    At the time, UbuntuOne was an online file storage and music service. That didn't work at all, so they re-positioned the name for a single sign-on service, which also failed.

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