Hi, everyone. 👋
I’d like to move a few of my books from Amazon kindle app to an open source reader before closing the Amazon account. Preferably, I’d like moving to a European -based servive.
Curious about what my options would be? What is the procedure like? 🤷♂️
What open source reader are you using? I’d love an open source device to replace my Kobo, but the only option I ever found when I looked was basically to use an Android app, and that’s not really what I hoped for.
(Not OP)
I think Kobo is not too closed, is it? Not saying it’s open source, but not hard to install KoReader or other stuff it may support.
I have a PocketBook reader, more specifically a pocketbook touch hd 3.
When plugged into a pc the thing seems open source but I am not sure if everything it runs is visible there. Installing KoReader on by device was just a matter of copying 2 folders to specific places in the existing hierarchy, and not a single file replaced a previously existing one.
This is an older device, I hope newer ones are still as open as this one seems to be.
I don’t expect to need to buy another e-reader anytime soon but Kobo would be on my radar if I would.
What is wrong with yours?
I absolutely adore my Kobo. I run calibre and calibre web to manage everything for it and it’s been flawless for me for a couple years now.
I’d just prefer something genuinely open. I can and did put KOReader on my Kobo, but it still runs its own proprietary firmware or OS or whatever. That’s probably based on or built on top of something open like a Linux kernel, but a proprietary layer still sits on top
I’ve been considering getting… I think it’s the Pine Note? It’s from Pine64 and is supposed to be a tablet with an e-ink display, but last I checked on it a year or two ago, software and driver support was still not quite there. It’s all open hardware, though, so it’s just a matter of the community getting it up to speed. Probably about time I look back into it, but my Kobo isn’t that old, so I kinda hate to spend so much replacing it.