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Originally Posted by DNSB
...it would likely be much easier to base your development on KOReader or Plato since they both support eInk devices.
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I wasn't thinking about a port of calibre. More an entirely separate linux OS with the calibre name. Designed for linux e-ink devices. And with seamless integration with a calibre desktop and a calibre OPDS.
Maybe I'm slightly unhinged - quite to highly likely - but I can't understand why this isn't something of a priority. We have this crazily naive idea that a 'free market' will save our democracies. That democracy and the marketplace for goods and services are inextricable linked. Ignoring the fact that it didn't exactly go hand-in-hand in China. We thought that introducing free trade would inevitably lead to a democratisation. It didn't though. And what's to stop the backpedalling in our free world? Well, free access to knowledge, information, insight. You know, the whole civilisation thing.
I know this probably belongs in the political forum or some other ghetto. But no. Open-source is inherently political. It isn't just free stuff. Calibre isn't just a cool toy. It's freedom.
Again, sorry about the rant. It's been a long day.