Kobo’s great color e-readers are held back by lock-in
1y 11mon ago by lemmy.zip/u/BrikoX in ereader_community@lemmy.ml from www.theverge.com
I want to read books, not just buy them.
most readers generally are held back by lock-in. Book drm is even more frustrating to me than video drm atm.
That and the form factor are the only reasons I went with the Boox Palma instead.
Boox are awesome! Good default reader app, nice refresh rate and e-ink options, trash but not intrusive Android build and ability to use KoReader.
I used to have a Note Air, sold it and moved to Poke 3, finished countless books and never looked back since. I can’t understand what Kindle or Kobo offers other than a locked environment.
Ended up getting a Kobo Elipsa 2E myself a while back, and it's been a real pleasure to use. There's no stupid device-level DRM on it to try and prevent me from actually using it for my reading, and the onboard storage is just a simple microSD so it's really easy to upgrade if I want to fit even more books.
KOReader has been a real treat to run on it, letting me sync books from my home NAS over WebDav, push books directly to it over scp, I've even been poking at a plugin to have it automatically sync books off of a local reading tracker I've written.
Hi! How did you set up the sync thing??
In the folder view in KOReader, swipe down the top menu, pick the tools menu (the crossed wrench and screwdriver), choose "Cloud storage", and then tap the plus (+) in the top left.
You can add a WebDAV server from there, and browse it to download files onto the e-reader. If you want to update a local book just download the new copy overtop it, the reading state is stored beside the epub itself so KOReader should still remember where you were unless the new version of the book is drastically different.
My personal reading tracker is still syncing by pushing epubs using scp directly from my desktop, still haven't had the time to build the plugin for it that I planned, but I've entirely rewritten the tracker instead.
Replicating this can be done by configuring SSH in KOReader, which is done under the settings menu (the cog), "Network", and "SSH server" on the bottom.
Thanks!!!
I agree. The hardware and overdrive integration are sweet. But borrowing books is difficult, and borrowing books usually involves a multi-week wait.
I generally do a blend of physical and ebooks now.
behind a paywall
I just wish there were options like the Kindle Voyage. Slim, book-shaped, with physical page turn buttons on both sides. I absolutely love mine, but I wish it were waterproof and had a night light mode for the backlight.
Happy cake day. :)
Oh hey, thanks! That's cool!
I have to say, the amazon affiliate link is extremely ironic.
I am very happy with my black-and-white libra, it hasn't really tried to sell me anything aside from a widget that went away permenantly when i Xed out of it, and the buttons to the store which i got rid of via modding.