Interested in ereaders

[Scott Elcomb]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Molly Tournquist
<mollytournquist-ifvz4xmYPRU at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Scott Elcomb
>> Sent: 09/19/13 02:36 PM
>> A thick-ish pocket-size notebook with a flip open cover and colour
>> e-paper. Use the available depth to hold the electronics and for
>> keeping bluetooth earbuds in storage - similar in concept to a book
>> safe.
>>
>> Use Linux & FOSS, preferably on Open Hardware. Most importantly
>> though, let users customize their covers (also e-paper).
>
> Actually, using linux is questionable. Rockbox is already optimized for portable music players. Color E-paper is an issue of how good that technology is.

Hmm, according to Wikipedia Rockbox is based on µClinux. That's pretty close :-)

The idea was simply to have an open & extensible platform to reuse
available software (speech synthesis, voice recognition, etc) instead
of recreating wheels. (I'm glad to see that Rockbox has a
voice-capable UI.)

Interestingly the article also mentions: "Daniel Stenberg, a founder
of the Rockbox project, envisions the project evolving away from a
standalone Rockbox operating system to Rockbox as a media player
application that runs under mobile operating systems, such as Android,
iOS, Sailfish OS or Tizen"...

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox#Future>

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