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Looking for an ebook reader (hardware) which doesn't hold a proprietary OS (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by dontblink@feddit.it to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I wanna buy an ebook reader but i don't want any amazon or other companies shit in there, just something i can connect to my pc, pass ebooks in different formats into it and read.

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[-] N1cknamed@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

My kobo is great. You never have to connect it to the internet if you don't want to. I transfer epub files to it via USB.

[-] reallyzen@unilem.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same here. I only buy drm-free from ebooksdotcom, and transfer them with ~~caliber~~ calibre. My kobo wifi isn't even configured.

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

*Calibre. (link for those that don't know it: https://calibre-ebook.com/)

[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

and (for anyone reading this later) if you are all about keeping things up to date, you can sideload firmware

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kobo_Firmware_Releases#Firmware_Download_Link

(at your own risk)

this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023

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