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Cows Look Like Maps to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader

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What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader

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Cows Look Like Maps to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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When it comes to an eBook reader, the choices are limited. The market is dominated by Amazon’s proprietary Kindle along with a few other options like Kobo, Nook and Onyx. An interesting news for open source enthusiasts is that a developer, Joey Castillo, is working on creating an open
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    I do have a kobo! It’s pretty good. What’s Koreader? Is that software to jailbreak it?

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      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 😂

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        Thank you! Saving this post :)

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