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Originally Posted by ohIdon'tknow
You may well be right. Though is it entirely wise to hang the future of reading upon a hopeful hunch? All I'm saying is that a backup or contingency might be a worthwhile investment. Especially when we are talking about something so absolutely fundamental. Without those who fought for our free and open access to the written word none of us would be having this conversation.
It needs to be free. It needs to be open.
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But what would be the use of calibre OS when there isn't any open-source ereader it could run on? (Besides PineNote, and I don't consider that an ereader). It'd be just a lot of effort without any purpose, as things stand now. Yes, you said that designing the software should come first, but it's very unlikely anyone would be willing to put in that much effort with only one device it could run on, and said device being very, very niche. I think the hardware must come first in this case. We already have KOReader, which could be the default reading software, and once there is enough interest in the device, someone might develop alternate OSes for it.