Re:E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
by maurits on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @03:14AM
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My new Kobo refused to start out of the box, without making an account. Very disappointing.
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Re:E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
by BHSPitMonkey on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:26AM
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I created an account, but then installed KOreader on my Libra 2 and just read books through that. It's FOSS, more customizable, and supports OPDS feeds which can do pretty neat things like finding articles from HN[0].
Re:E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
by sotix on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @09:57AM
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I read that KOreader is unstable on the Libra 2[0], so I haven’t installed it yet even though I would like to. What has been your experience running it?
Re:E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
by beej71 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:06PM
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I had it installed for a while, and there were fairly frequent crashes (i.e. about once every 8 hours of reading) requiring a reboot.
But it was _almost_ worth it. It's a really great reader, especially for reading PDFs.
After some software update about 6 months ago it got halfway uninstalled somehow and I did a factory reset and haven't reinstalled it yet. I recall reading that it's not on KOreader's side, and they can'tfix. :(
Re:E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
by BHSPitMonkey on Sunday December 17, 2023 @01:57PM
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It's been perfectly stable for me since I got the device a few months ago, but I also don't read for hours at a time like the other commenter. It's possible that it leaks memory after viewing several hundred pages or something like that.