im thinking of getting an ereader, but cant find many foss devices. i dont plan on connecting it to the internet, so i suppose it doesnt matter if its controlled by amazon right? love to hear your thoughts...

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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What do you mean with OS alternatives?

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can install PostmarketOS on several kobo devices, e.g.: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Kobo_Clara_HD_(kobo-clara)

PostmarketOS is a general linux distro based on alpine linux.

[–] Prunebutt@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only one I know is Inkbox OS https://inkbox.ddns.net/

[–] shinnoodles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this and Koreader are the ones I was referring to. Sorry for not listing anything.

[–] beSyl@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Koreader is one. Plato is another.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Those are glorifies apps that you install on top of the default OS