Honestly, I’ve been tempted by a Kobo lately; I have a lot of Star Trek RPG and comic book PDFs/ePUBs that I got through Humble Bundle over the past couple years.

Kobo seems like the least horrible brand I can get for a reasonable price with a reasonable screen quality; as pleasantly simple and reliable as they seem, and as nice as electronics re-use is, I’m not sure that one Sony e-reader that’s as old as my younger sibling fulfills my use case.

Though honestly, if you have other recommendations for a Linux-friendly color e-reader, I’d be glad to hear them.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 15 points 2 days ago

Just FYI I've contributed to the project before.

It works best on old kobos. Those are as easy as imaging an old sd card and running with it.

And the new kobos are VERY difficult to work with. The os is kinda slow on most models. The discord is the recommended way to talk to the main devs of the project. The project hasn't been practically updated in a long time.

Let me know if you end up using it!

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago

The author must have seen this post because they changed the readme 3 hours ago lol

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

last I checked it couldn't run on the colour models or the same gen non colour

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 3 points 2 days ago

Waiting for the pine64 shift with this one

[–] heinlenstein@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

@Rekall_Incorporated This project is 2 years old and dead.

[–] morto@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

I see some recent updates in their github

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 days ago

I doubt the poster is the author of the OSNews article