Which brands are generally more piracy-friendly? Do you suggest any specific model? Or maybe there are products that are easily customizable at the OS level? Thanks!

  • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.frEnglish
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    3 days ago

    KOReader is by far better than the crappy stock firmware from Kobo. While the interface is not the prettiest, it still has a lot of advantages :

    • it adds the ability to browse the filesystem (how do people use an e-reader without folders ?)
    • loading medium to large PDFs takes ages in kobo’s stock UI, while it’s almost instant in koreader
    • there are a bunch of plugins you can add to koreader

    While I really hate Kobo’s stock UI, I still recommend getting one if you like truly owning your hardware. It’s really easy to enable ssh access and then it’s just regular Linux. It’s even possible to run an X server and launch Linux graphical apps on the e-ink display (not quite usable though)

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      But you can get an Android device with a reader that’s actually functional. Navigating a file system doesn’t even vaguely resemble functional.

      I’m not advocating stock Kobo. I’m saying the absolute bare minimum for me to consider a reader usable at all is the ability to navigate/search/filter my library by all of author, publisher, tags, series, and any other metadata. Folders are an extremely poor substitute for actual organization tools.