dontblinkAug 8, 2023

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

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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.

Show threadprofessedAug 8, 2023
I love my Remarkable 2. The company has a freemium model for its online services, but the device is lovely on its own and it’s Linux under the hood, with an active modding community delivering cool tweaks.
Show threadSatyrSack
It looks awesome, but doesn’t seem to be that great as an ereader, though.
Aug 10, 2023 at 4:27amWeb
Show threadprofessedAug 10, 2023
It really awesome when it comes to reading and annotating PDFs. That’s the main reason I got it — so many e-readers I’ve tried over the years have been horrible for PDF documents and as a professor that’s like 80% of my day. For ePub documents, it’s very capable now — even if that wasn’t the case a few software versions ago. That said, the experience is a bit idiosyncratic among e-reader devices. The Remarkable basically converts the ePub to a static document so that the UI can more or less treat it as a PDF, which is a different user experience than some other e-readers. It’s not unpleasant, but it’s different.