I don’t understand why this needs hardware. Existing devices can already do this
You have:
No tea
Get tea and no tea
Your common sense prevents you from doing that.
I’m 90% sure that I could play gamebooks right now with my 7-year-old jailbroken Kindle. 100% sure that I could play other types of IF with one of the Boox devices that run Android.
Kids these days were never likely to be eaten by a grue… and it shows. ;)
Does this mean I can finally stop wondering why on earth I can’t get ye flask?
Nice.
Now, how long till I can get an ebook reader / eink device with proper open source software? Or anyone have any recommendations?
Looks like the one this is talking about is expected to be open hardware + open software. Given its based on the ESP32 chipset, should be relatively inexpensive and fairly standard
The PineNote. Depending on your definition of “proper”, since it ships with GNOME and AFAICT only supports Wayland, and Wayland doesn’t have many compositors that work well on a device with no keyboard.
The pocketbook is the best I know of on the market right now. I have one (bought it a few months back) and it is exactly what was advertised.
Can i still read my kindle bought stuff on it?
Iirc kindle books come with DRM, which you can break using a calibre plugin.
Honestly downloading books from libgen is so much easier I don’t think I’ve bought a kindle book in 10 years.
That holds if you read stuff that is mostly well known. I read in swedish a lot, and a fair amount of obscure philosophy and science stuff, and it is not always available there :/
I generally read moderately niche fiction titles and they’re all there, but I am monolingual so everything is in English.
