Good idea.

Nice!

Both seem like good machines :).

It also does some niceties around fonts when you do a conversion. Some ebook readers dont come with specific fonts so they just use the inbuilt one(s).

Just FYI, older Kobos are exceptionally easy to repair and modify. They used to have an SD card as the hd you could remove and do all sorts of cool things with. They also published the version of the linux kernel they used and any modifications they (Kobo) devs had to do to get things working. It was awesome for a time. Its more locked down now… :(

I used to play around with https://quill-os.org/ and it worked decently well on kobo until the newer versions started to crack down on the mod scene.

Nowadays im thinking the open book or Diptyx E-Reader might be a better bet for long term sustainability. Its great ifixit is working with kobo, but the software is still locked down.

For a bigger list take a look: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-ebook-readers-options/

You can contact them via https://makertube.net/about/contact with your question.

I have no clue.

Registration page: https://makertube.net/signup

Fantastic talk. Also on peertube :)

[email protected] if anyone is interested.

Unfortunately the project is reliant on quite old tech and parts nowadays.

Love it.

No idea. You may want to put it directly in your browser window tab. Maybe lemmy is doing something strange to the url? Its def a real link though.

Give it a shot. The code is a bit piecemeal so feel free to improve upon it. I got a book working with upload and stopped there. Its a “good enough” solution. It goes to the next page and keeps the page when the power is out.

The code could probably need a tuneup. I haven’t done C++ in 10+ years other than some tiny linux kernel patches and that was a bit ago.

Oh look, its my favorite database !

Open book is awesome.

Similarly im lookimg forward to getting my https://diptyx.dev/

This is awesome thanks!

That looks kinda like my project down to the same board. Crazy. Not sure why hes charging for it, its very simple to program. And heltek comes with a plastic casing/screen to begin with.

https://piefed.social/c/meshtastic/p/1951961/ebook-reader-out-of-a-heltek-v3#post_replies

It looks familiar butbwith an eink screen rather than the heltek screen that comes with it. Cool little device he made.

I just found it :)

One of the best things about ebook readers is once you get old, you can still read your favorite books!

Just fyi the older pis 3 and down have a somewhat slow ethernet connection if your going that route.