Open Book Touch is Crowdfunding: A Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle
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It's $149, runs on an ESP32-S3, and skips DRM entirely and lets you skip the Kindle ecosystem.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49429587

URL for the crowdfunding: https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch

Specs:

  • Display: 4.26" e-paper touchscreen, 480 × 800 px, warm + cool frontlight
  • Processor: ESP32-S3 dual-core, Wi-Fi + Bluetooth LE
  • Memory: 16 MB flash, 8 MB PSRAM
  • Formats: EPUB and plain text, no DRM
  • Storage: microSD card slot
  • Interface: USB-C with integrated LiPo charging
  • Dimension: 78 × 120 × 10 mm, about 85 g
  • Open source: MIT-licensed firmware, open hardware (to be released at shipping)

It also has a replaceable 800 mAh battery, I found it cool :)

  • slickgoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    But can you get books to read on it? I suspect that these gadgets will get locked out of the market by the thugs.

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      These gadgets were locked into the market, locked out of everything else. Usually, how these things go, the community version supplies interfaces for downloading content from third parties.

      Lock the gadgets out all they want. That’ll only make more interest around having all the popular new books available on platforms that thugs can’t control.