When it comes to an eBook reader, the choices are limited. The market is dominated by Amazon’s proprietary Kindle along with a few other options like Kobo, Nook and Onyx.
An interesting news for open source enthusiasts is that a developer, Joey Castillo, is working on creating an open
I’m not sure I understand, epub is both the industry standard and an open format, as far as I know. Why not work on using it or build it around epub from the get-go?
I have to admit I’ll have to wait for the project to start implementing epub to consider getting on board, but it’s still a great effort.
It looks like it is powered by a microcontroller. Maybe it isn’t powerful enough to support epub?
Probably because the computational hardware is not powerful enough to implement a (proto) web browser
It’s a raspberry pi pico. Ebooks could probably work with it on the new version.