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[–] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Okay this is so fucking cool.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

That's a good one

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Super cool project. FYI it does require converting your ebooks to a special format.

I suspected as much since it's using an Arduino Mega - very battery efficient I'm sure, but very underpowered.

[–] 01189998819991197253 8 points 5 months ago

This is amazing! Using LICs is pretty ingenious considering the pure use case of an ereader.

[–] doug@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I still kick myself for not getting one of the first Kindle models that had free 3(4?)G built in.

[–] tunisandwich@lemmy.vg -1 points 5 months ago

I don’t think it was free, you still had to pay for data