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What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader (itsfoss.com)
submitted 11 months ago by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] WaDef7@kbin.social 77 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure I understand, epub is both the industry standard and an open format, as far as I know. Why not work on using it or build it around epub from the get-go?

I have to admit I'll have to wait for the project to start implementing epub to consider getting on board, but it's still a great effort.

[–] runefehay@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It looks like it is powered by a microcontroller. Maybe it isn't powerful enough to support epub?

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

It's a 120mhz Arm CPU. That's more than enough for epub. For comparison the 25 Mhz 68030 in the Next computer used Adobe Postcript (PDF) as it's GUI.

[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Probably because the computational hardware is not powerful enough to implement a (proto) web browser

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's a raspberry pi pico. Ebooks could probably work with it on the new version.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It said it's a 120mhz SAMD51 ARM Cortex-M4.