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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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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Really cool! I do wish the screen was a bit bigger. It's the size of my 2012 windows phone, haha.

[–] SleepyWheel@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've got a Hisense A5 and reading is surprisingly nice on it. Although this looks even smaller?

Also regarding the overall idea - just get a Kobo and put Koreader on it, then sideload any book format you like.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I do have a kobo! It's pretty good. What's Koreader? Is that software to jailbreak it?

[–] SleepyWheel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, you don't even have to jailbreak it, you can just install it alongside the kobo software, then you can keep both. It's a bit fiddly to set up but not too bad https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kobo-devices

Koreader is available from the Play store if you have an android phone, you can try it out first. Its very customisable, I spend hours tweaking the settings because that's my idea of fun 😂

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago

Thank you! Saving this post :)