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Biggest Competitor for Amazon Kindle - Kobo - has formed an official Cooperation with iFixit for repair kits & guides (pdx.social)
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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Just FYI, older Kobos are exceptionally easy to repair and modify.

I used to play around with https://quill-os.org/ and it worked decently well on kobo until the newer versions started to crack down on the mod scene.

Nowadays im thinking the open book or Diptyx E-Reader might be a better bet for long term sustainability. Its great ifixit is working with kobo, but the software is still locked down.

For a bigger list take a look: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-ebook-readers-options/

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yup, I have a 256 GB microSD card in my Kobo Clara HD.

[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would hate trying to find what I wanted with that much storage on my Aura. It's so slow, which is fine when reading, but I really try to limit it to like 100 titles so I can browse through.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I think it still works at a decent speed for my use. I also got a higher class SD card, so not sure if that impacts it much, but it does feel a bit snappier.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just recently bought the Kobo Calibra BW. I just watched that Diptyx video and I. Have. A MIGHTY NEED!!!!

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Both seem like good machines :).

[–] deadlock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'd love to have ventured into that with mine. Turns out the very first gen I got didn't have the SD card internally yet but soldered memory, so I can't do some fancy stuff with it. On the other hand, the thing still runs and that's like, most of what matters. The old thing still getting firmware updates from time to time, gotta say that is rather impressive. I can also swap the battery once it decides to die, which is nice.