From: Timotej Lazar <timotej.lazar@araneo.si>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ebook reader recommendations?
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:04:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2ifqk87.fsf@araneo.si> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zh2vmfkh.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
Hi!
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> [2020-12-03 09:58:22+0100]:
> I'm looking for an open ebook reader, at least something that runs free
> software.
I’m happy with my Kobo Glo. By default it has a pretty hackable Linux
install with a proprietary UI, but it’s possible to run koreader¹ on it,
and even compile the kernel & uboot yourself². It does need some
firmware blobs for initializing the display, but other than that it can
run with just free software (except for wi-fi).
Unforunately the chipset is not supported in the mainstream kernel, so
it’s limited to the ancient 2.6.something kernel released by Kobo, which
does not work with the newer glibcs. I did manage to get Alpine running
on it with musl. Newer Kobo models are available and apparently just as
hackable, so that might be worth checking out.
¹ https://github.com/koreader/koreader
² https://github.com/lgeek/okreader
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-03 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-03 8:58 ebook reader recommendations? Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-03 10:04 ` Timotej Lazar [this message]
2020-12-03 11:16 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-03 11:59 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira via
2020-12-03 16:23 ` John Soo
2020-12-04 10:39 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-04 10:56 ` Edouard Klein
2020-12-04 12:34 ` Sébastien Lerique
2020-12-04 14:33 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira via
2020-12-04 10:44 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-04 16:48 ` Benjamin Slade
2020-12-04 17:02 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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2020-12-04 11:03 John Soo
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