This is a device category I have very little knowledge about, but I have a growing collection of PDFs and ebooks and I’d love to have a light weight device to read them on.

Any recommendations? Are they all walled gardens?

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    I highly recommend looking into Kobo. They sell ereaders with a Linux OS base and work very well with the Calibre eBook management software.

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      5 days ago

      Seconded. Some older kindles can also be jailbroken. But Kobos in general are good. You might want to avoid Onyx, they’re known violators of GPL

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      4 days ago

      These look really nice and exactly what I’m looking for. Its funny, my SO is laughing because she used to sell these at Borders book store years ago, she said they couldn’t compete with kindals at the time. Looks like they’re doing well now though!