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

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) by Freeman on Friday January 31 2020, @06:30PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Friday January 31 2020, @06:30PM (#951881) Journal

    I liked the simplicity of treating it like a flash drive to drop my Project Gutenberg books onto it, while at the same time using the B&N store to get newer copyrighted material.

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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Saturday February 01 2020, @02:47AM

    by Immerman (3985) on Saturday February 01 2020, @02:47AM (#952136)

    Yeah, I can see the appeal - I did similar with early mp3 players. A (non-bloated) "iTunes for eBooks" is handy though, particularly when looking for something (possibly non-specific), or otherwise managing your collection.

    ...at least assuming your meta-tags are all in order. Which I've sadly had absolutely terrible luck with. Still, it's not *that* bad spending a few minutes now and then downloading and proofreading tags and notes for the recent entries to your library, and it is nice to have at least a nice cover image, a synopsis, and and a few other details normally found on the cover that ebooks can so sorely lack.