Meet the Ink Console, a new hybrid console that's about to open doors for more interactive fiction titles heading our way!
  • Beacon@fedia.io
    14·
    9 months ago

    I don’t understand why this needs hardware. Existing devices can already do this

  • gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
    9·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    Nice.

    Now, how long till I can get an ebook reader / eink device with proper open source software? Or anyone have any recommendations?

    • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • scoobford@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      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.

        • scoobford@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          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.

          • Sonor@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            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 :/

            • scoobford@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              I generally read moderately niche fiction titles and they’re all there, but I am monolingual so everything is in English.