This is maybe the biggest FINALLY in my career as a purveyor of Oddly Specific Objects: The Open Book is in prelaunch at Crowd Supply!
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This is maybe the biggest FINALLY in my career as a purveyor of Oddly Specific Objects: The Open Book is in prelaunch at Crowd Supply! But it's not the same old Open Book; we're launching the all-new, completely reimagined Open Book Touch with WiFi and Bluetooth support, a higher-resolution display, capacitive touchscreen, and frontlight with adjustable color temperature. Subscribe for updates here! https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch
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@joeycastillo I could be the audience for this project!
The main unknown: Do you budget time to work on the OS?
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@joeycastillo out of curiosity, what's the barrier to getting koreader running on an esp32? this looks awesome (and it's not my first time seeing the open book and thinking as much!), just curious what the barrier is to using existing open source ereader firmware
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V valhalla@social.gl-como.it shared this topic
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@mra @joeycastillo afaik koreader has been written to run on a computer¹ with a full operating system. This is a microcontroller based system, different architecture, orders of magnitude less resources.
So I'd say somewhere between “requires a full rewrite” and “just impossible”
¹ yes, a smartphone is a full computer, and so are most ebook readers. they are smaller than a PC, but potentially run the same software, and if they don't it's because the producers artificially added locks to prevent it.
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@thibaultamartin @joeycastillo wouldn't it be easier to port #koReader?
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