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I wanna buy an ebook reader but i don't want any amazon or other companies shit in there, just something i can connect to my pc, pass ebooks in different formats into it and read.

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[–] murfman 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I have a Remarkable 2 as well that I love. But I also have an old Sony PRS-500 that is still kicking along and takes ePubs without any problems.

[–] polarity_inverter@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

the remarkable software is proprietary. they just run it on linux and give you root via ssh, but installing anything voids your warranty...

[–] SpicyLiquidJar@waveform.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm jaded / cynical, but that seems like a pretty reasonable compromise. If you want to take responsibility and install your software from scratch then nothing is guaranteed. I'd take that deal.

It's okay, definitely was worth it for me.

But I still think its kinda weird to put out a 400$ device and then say: "here's full ssh root access, but don't use it"

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