Loaded another fifty books onto the resurrected Sony ereader, this time a selection from @standardebooks (which is sort of "What if those free Project Gutenberg books were professionally presented?"). As well as the expected mainstream classics, there are loads of titles from authors like Robert Sheckley, Philip K. Dick, Andre Norton, and Manly Wade Wellman, which is great to see.

My sister reads absolutely nothing throughout the year, but then strangely turns into a voracious bookworm for her annual fortnight holiday in Greece, tearing through seven or eight books, which makes an ereader fairly essential. This year she and her husband have been hit by Amazon's decision to disown arbitrarily "old" Kindle readers; because they don't have a computer she couldn't sideload titles or jailbreak the devices (and I doubt she even knew it was an option), so they've bought two new Kindles, just as Amazon intended.

It's a pity she didn't mention it in advance as I could have sorted a better option, but for her an ereader means a Kindle and convenience wins.

So many reasons not to get locked in by Amazon.

#Books #Ereaders #Ebooks #Amazon

*Huge* update to the #Crosspoint firmware for #Xteink #eReaders just dropped. Loads of bug fixes and new features. Can’t wait to give this a test drive 😎

Great work from Zach Nelson and all other contributors

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/releases/tag/1.3.0

I've been working on an implementation in Go of the KOReader Sync stuff for a self-hostable sync server

https://github.com/Brunty/koreader-sync

Are there others out there that also do this? Yes

Did this need to exist? Maybe not

Am I having fun working on it as it's a simple project to get to grips with some stuff in Go because I'm new to that language? Yes

Am I already using it as the target for KOReader Sync on my #PocketBook Era Color? Yes

#KOReader #KOReaderSync #SelfHosting #eReaders #Learning

Any volunteers to replace the USB-C port on my eReader? I just watched a video on how to do it and....hard pass.

#diy #ereaders

Amazon's Kindle Colorsoft Gets a Dark Mode (2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/kindle-colorsoft-dark-mode-2026/

So the Surface is kind of a bust right now, but I did have some success reviving my old 1st edition Nook. Luckily this was from a time that batteries were still normally pretty easy to replace, so swapping in a new battery was easier than making breakfast.

Still has a bunch of books I loaded on it too. It's weird to look back on what I was reading and interested almost 2 decades ago. Even my wallpaper is a throw back to the late 2000s 😂 #eink #ereaders #retrotech

Stuck in #Xteink delivery bad dream. I don’t normally recommend Amazon, but for your Xteink, definitely order from Amazon, not from the company in China. You’ll have some level of consumer protection that way.

It’s been 6 days since it was Out for Delivery. They never brought it, claimed I needed to confirm my address, I did that twice by phone and once in email, and they went silent (no they didn't, see update below). I’m out over a hundred bucks.

#ereaders