I've used Pocketbook for years. Durable equipment, good battery, simple but robust OS. The company was first founded in Kyiv and then moved its headquarters to Switzerland. Production, to the best of my knowledge, is in Taiwan. Highly recommended.
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Thank you for sharing
I have a pocketbook too, over a decade old and still going. Has everything I need, supports a wide range of file types
Iโm also using Poketbook and Iโm very happy with it :)
For those who have an Amazon Kindle, it's currently possible to jailbreak almost all Kindle models, thanks to a new jailbreaking tool released earlier this year. That includes the latest generation devices, as long as they haven't been updated to the latest firmware that was released last month.
What do you do with it after jailbreaking?
Jailbreaking basically lets you de-Amazon your Kindle. You can replace the default user interface and reader app with KOReader, which is more feature rich. This video shows some of the features that KOReader has and some other things you can do with jailbroken Kindle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtk7ERwlIAk
Oh great, thanks for that! I've been agonising over the fact of having a kindle laying around my table, but now I can feel better by screwing over Amazon.
Question, if I jailbreak, what happens to the Amazon books I already bought? Will they still be there? Because sadly some books can only be found on amazon because they are too niche and I can't afford to lose them.
It shouldn't delete anything. But KOReader doesn't support Amazon's file formats, or DRM, so you either need to convert them, or use the normal UI to read them. Removing DRM is pretty easy, although illegal in most countries, and converting is also easy with Calibre. This guide might help with that: https://lemm.ee/post/58718431.
And read the jailbreaking FAQ: https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/jailbreak-faq.html
Thank you!!
I use a Vivlio, sold by Cultura. Very simple and light. The battery lasts forever. I only read epub books that are in the public domain, which is a lot and completely free
The colour version is also very good. A game changer for comics/graphic novels.
Kobo e-readers are really good, and are canadian.
Love my kobo e-reader, and in the UK at least you can connect it to your local library using something called OverDrive and rent ebooks for free
My library has overdrive, but kobo doesn't support linking it in Ireland yet. Its still a great e-reader though.
How many of these "alternatives" aren't made in China....
And Marschpat don't have their own hardware. They sell Pocketbooks.
I mean, I understand your sentiment, but if we SRE gonna limit ourselves to things tjat aren't manufactured in China then we will, quite literally, be living on the streets.
If we can increase our consumption of brands that are even 20-30% European, that already has a huge impact on our economy.
You might also check out inkBOOK (inkbook.eu), a Polish company. I'm currently using their focus model which features a large (7.8'') display, and I'm very happy with it.
I ordered their Solaris model and I should get it by the end of next week. I have a Storytel subscription and Finland, where I live, has a library app where you can loan ebooks as well, so I am very excited about being able to access them from my ereader.
It's good to hear you've been liking yours as it was very hard to find reviews, but I really wanted to support an EU company and ended up going for it anyway!
I'd heard about reMarkable but not sure if it's exactly a kindle competitor. Also uses e-ink but it heard more towards taking notes. Far as I can tell it created the segment that the kinda Scribe competes in.
Not used one so interested to hear a user's take.
I have a remarkable 2. Two of them actually after I killed the first one by sitting on it ๐ณ
They are excellent note-takers. Thereโs no on device OCR and search of notes, that relies on their cloud service. Writing on it is the closest to writing on paper Iโve found on a eDevice.
Itโs a terrible ebook reader. Everything gets converted to PDF internally and the UI is designed around annotation and note taking, not uninterrupted reading.
One of us has one and likes it! We wrote about it here:
https://social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/114122331707730142