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Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
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[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Kobos are pretty nice. They're not cheap, as you pointed out, but you can get an older or used one for quite a bit cheaper and it's just as good. They run Linux. It's almost completely open, and anything that isn't might as well be. That said you really don't need to open it up much, just enough to install something like koreader which basically completely replaces the OS on the thing. It does everything I would ever want to use my ereader for ... granted that's pretty much just "read ebooks".

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

They run Linux

No, that's PocketBook who runs a (old) "naked" Linux. Kobo is AOSP-based; a vendor-ROM without Play Store and thus no "Android" certificate.

Well ok, if you are to call Android a Linux, Matter of opinion. I do run LineageOS on my Leaf btw.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's my "opinion" that a device running a slightly modified Linux 2.6 kernel is literally running Linux, yes. Maybe you're making the point that it's not a full GNU/Linux distribution that most people imagine when they hear Linux, and that's a valid and valuable clarification which I thank you for providing, but you don't need to imply I'm wrong to provide that clarification.

[–] bobslaede 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My kobo Libra 2 does not run aosp.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

They play both sides?