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Re:Kobo can run apps now by KaiserPro on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:49AM (#49397568)
My wife bought a kobo as it allows her to use the local libraries ebook collection, rather than spending hundreds of pounds at amazon for the kindle.

It was starting to die and had screenglitches. After a bit of debug, it turns out that hacking the kobo is dirt simple. You open up the back, and replace the SD card. thats it.

There is a large community that have created toolchains and guides. there is of course a port of koreader (https://koreader.rocks/) which has a lua interface for making your own apps.

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Re:Kobo can run apps now by CretinDesAlpes on Sunday August 23, 2026 @06:40AM (#49407712)
KOReader is amazing, I had an old Kobo Clara HD that I almost had given up on, and after installing KOReader I use it almost daily as I read a lot of documents on it. You can ssh it, so you can easily scp kobo to send/receive documents, like epubs, pdf or retrieving highlights you've made on the kobo.

Plus, it is installed on top of the normal kobo operating system via NickelMenu, so it's not really messing up with anything.

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