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Old 01-27-2025, 02:06 AM   #1
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Is it worth to change Postmarketos on Kobo or any Ebook Readers?
I see postmarketos (based on Alpine, the most light-weight Linux distro) option for Ebook Readers : https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/D...Reader_Tablets
I got only one video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByvmEqJvZBU

If anyone tried it or experimented it please do share your experience here. Is it really worth to change OS?

Alternative is InkBox OS | (forum thread) again based on Alpine Linux.
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Old 01-27-2025, 03:48 AM   #2
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Kobo already runs Linux under the hood; you can enable developer mode to poke around the internals over Wi-Fi with telnet. If your goal is to read books, there really is no reason to replace the OS. If you don't like Nickel, you can install KOReader to get a completely different UI.
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Old 01-27-2025, 03:51 AM   #3
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Ehm... no?

The system is almost unusable judging by the video. Kobo readers have really weak hardware (CPU/RAM/etc), which is not much of a problem using their optimized Linux system, but would make any other OS so slow as to be a real pain to use.

You would gain nothing and lose everything that makes the reader good in the first place.
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Your Kobo is designed to do one thing really well: read eBooks. I don't know why you'd want to compromise its ability to do that in exchange for the potential to do a bunch of other things very poorly.

I would recommend saving postmarketOS for an Android tablet instead. It's a better fit.
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Your Kobo is designed to do one thing really well: read eBooks. I don't know why you'd want to compromise its ability to do that in exchange for the potential to do a bunch of other things very poorly.

I would recommend saving postmarketOS for an Android tablet instead. It's a better fit.
That's pretty true. And even on the Android tablet, only if the standard install is really annoying. Android tablets & phones vary enormously even at the same Android version.

Also the Kobo system is brilliant with metadata from Calibre and then for finding an ebook. I know of no general ereader app as good. Having 800 bought and 8000 PD ebooks isn't a problem.
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