ereader suggestion with a no-bells and whistles

Allan Francis Lowe allan.francis.lowe at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 20:40:13 UTC 2020


Dear Eike,
Thank you for tips!

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 12:14 AM Eike Rathke <erack at fsfe.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Allan,
>
> On Sunday, 2020-08-16 11:46:27 +0200, Allan Francis Lowe wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a e-reader.
>
> PocketBook, Tolino or Kobo (my personal gut order of preference).
>
> > If possible with may be with some reinstallable OS
>
> What for? Anyway, PocketBook and Kobo devices usually run a Linux custom


Sorry I wanted to write readers that just can read PDF. and not
transmit number of pages/document names to amazon/google servers.

>
> kernel and BusyBox. Tolino runs Android (at least on newer devices?).
> The Kobo hacking community might be largest.




>
>
> You'll find many threads for those three (and more) in
> https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=50

I will see this.

Thank you...
>
>   Eike
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