Thread: You Should Buy an Android E-Reader
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Old 01-01-2020, 09:13 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman View Post
I didn't know they advertised "open" as a selling point. I figured for a while that they dimply hadn't bothered to locked it down, but I guess that's not the case. Kindle and Sony before them go to a lot of trouble locking stuff down. Nook is also pretty open. Thank heavens for open stuff. You say Kobo handle pdf well, but I doubt it works as well as koreader. Fortunately Kobo is open and can run koreader.
To be clear, the "open" is about books, not the software or device. They used to make it clear that books could come from anywhere.

The openness of the software is more because I don't think they see a point in locking it down. But, they also don't do anything to make it easy, and do not consider it to be their problem if a change they make breaks someone's hack.
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