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Old 06-11-2014, 08:30 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by roger64 View Post
Try Koreader with the kobos. I think it fits the bill. I mean it's free software. And it's now quite stable. I use it on my Kobo Glo and it's an excellent and very reactive reader.

There is a very active thread about it on this forum.
That's a reading application, not a reading device. The OP is after a device with a completely open source operating system. No such device exists.

It's one thing to install a different reading app on an eInk device; it's quite another to try to use an eInk device as a general-purpose tablet, which I get the the impression is what the OP is trying to do. eInk devices are designed primarily for long battery life and low power consumption, and hence have slow CPUs and very limited memory. This makes them very poor general-purpose tablets.

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