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.
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My kobo is great. You never have to connect it to the internet if you don’t want to. I transfer epub files to it via USB.
Same here. I only buy drm-free from ebooksdotcom, and transfer them with
calibercalibre. My kobo wifi isn’t even configured.*Calibre. (link for those that don’t know it: https://calibre-ebook.com/)
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+1 on this. Kobos actually use Linux under the hood. And although the default UI is proprietary, it’s super easy to install KOReader.
You don’t even need to hack into it some custom firmware, just a sideloader, which normally doesn’t break even if you actually updated the base firmware.
Here the official tutorial on how to do it: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kobo-devicesAFAIK every single ebook reader on the market actually runs Linux under the hood!
in parts of europe you can get some kobos branded as “tolino” - they have the same hardware, but actually run on android
Kobo readers are really neat, I’ve been using them for over a decade and I don’t remember ever using a Rakuten account or even going online with them for anything but software updates or connecting to my local library system (which Kindle can’t do). I use Calibre on the desktop to manage, convert and load my reader and that’s it.
