What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader

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What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader
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Really cool! I do wish the screen was a bit bigger. It's the size of my 2012 windows phone, haha.

I've got a Hisense A5 and reading is surprisingly nice on it. Although this looks even smaller?

Also regarding the overall idea - just get a Kobo and put Koreader on it, then sideload any book format you like.

I do have a kobo! It's pretty good. What's Koreader? Is that software to jailbreak it?

Yeah, you don't even have to jailbreak it, you can just install it alongside the kobo software, then you can keep both. It's a bit fiddly to set up but not too bad https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kobo-devices

Koreader is available from the Play store if you have an android phone, you can try it out first. Its very customisable, I spend hours tweaking the settings because that's my idea of fun 😂