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I'm running a Kobo Libra 2 that I bought last year, to upgrade from my Kobo Aura One. Getting an e-ink device has definitely been one of the best decisions I've made, I've read so much more since then

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nooks were some of the best you could get there in the early days! Having such a large hacking community made fun to tinker with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am finding the Kobo readers to be very hackable as well. I have been doing some fun/weird stuff with mine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its true! I think the underlying Linux bones help with that. The one thing that moved me away from Kobo is the notes export limitations. You have to install a mod to get the functionality, then you can manually export them to a txt file in the home directory of the device. Its good, but not as flexible as it could be.

It kind of blows me away when ereader producers don't have deeply integrated and functional notes management systems, its such a big part of the device! I suspect it may be linked to vendor lock in though, each company wants you to stay with their services and so make it difficult to extract your notes 😕

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I hear that. I think people get complacent since Amazon syncs their notes with Goodreads, but competitors need to be doing that stuff too. I'd love to see an option to integrate with story graph or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Storygraph looks super interesting! I'm going to check that out for sure.