mike-wsm
9th Oct 2012, 10:42
I've owned three different e-ink readers and had problems with all of them.
What I want to do is download free classics from gutenberg and read them. I can do this perfectly well on my tablet, using moon+ reader, but reading burns battery and is less portable. Ideally I would like to put a book on an sd card and pop it into an e-ink reader to carry with me.
But the e-ink readers don't permit this. You need to register, log in, etc via a system which is absolutely impossible to use before you can even switch it on. Dunno how many times I went round the loop of entering my wifi key via a miniscule, very slow keyboard, trying to create an account, getting dropped, losing connection and starting all over. All this to gain access to their dictatorial centralised system which I don't want.
All I need is a reader which lets me plug in an sd card with an epub on it so I can read it. Is there a reader that does this? Or can a Kindle, Kobo or whatever be rooted to do it? Ideally sd card but 'orrible umbilical if pushed.
What I want to do is download free classics from gutenberg and read them. I can do this perfectly well on my tablet, using moon+ reader, but reading burns battery and is less portable. Ideally I would like to put a book on an sd card and pop it into an e-ink reader to carry with me.
But the e-ink readers don't permit this. You need to register, log in, etc via a system which is absolutely impossible to use before you can even switch it on. Dunno how many times I went round the loop of entering my wifi key via a miniscule, very slow keyboard, trying to create an account, getting dropped, losing connection and starting all over. All this to gain access to their dictatorial centralised system which I don't want.
All I need is a reader which lets me plug in an sd card with an epub on it so I can read it. Is there a reader that does this? Or can a Kindle, Kobo or whatever be rooted to do it? Ideally sd card but 'orrible umbilical if pushed.