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I recently build myself an ebook reader from a Nexus 7 using Ubuntu Touch: https://www.exratione.com/2015/10/turning-a-nexus-7-fhd-tablet-into-an-ebook-reader-
by exratione 11y ago
I recently build myself an ebook reader from a Nexus 7 using Ubuntu Touch:
https://www.exratione.com/2015/10/turning-a-nexus-7-fhd-tablet-into-an-ebook-reader-with-ubuntu-touch/ https://www.exratione.com/2015/10/turning-a-nexus-7-fhd-tabl...
Dealing with other tablets and Touch is pretty hit and miss - you might be able to get it to work, but more likely not unless you're pretty experienced in low-level hacking in OS and devices.
Certainly that hardware doesn't have enough memory to keep Beru happy all the time, which is a pain, but I'm prepared to put up with the minor inconvenience in exchange for not having an reader that reports everything I do back to central.
If an official Ubuntu tablet can be disconnected from their report-everything-to-central mechanisms to the same degree that Ubuntu on the desktop can, then an official tablet may be worth the additional cost just to use as a reader.
- arjie 11y agoNice! Do you have a video? I'm curious as to how smoothly it responds to touch.
- exratione 11y agoNo video, I'm afraid. It is responsive, but not as feature-rich or advanced an interface as Android or ioS, of course. My main complaints on that front are lack of some idioms and that it isn't as smart about what the intent of touches are in some situations. It is like venturing a good six years into the past in terms of overall polish of the interface. Also the web browser in Ubuntu Touch is painfully lacking in features, and you can't yet put Firefox on there - but then I'm not using it for browsing.
- AdmiralAsshat 11y agoSeems like taking a Nexus 7 and gutting its OS simply to make a privacy-conscious eReader is a waste of a perfectly good tablet. Wouldn't it be easier and probably cheaper just to get a "dumb" e-reader (i.e. some kind of Kobo)?
- exratione 11y agoWell, it still does all the other Ubuntu things, and it is a cheap tablet. My survey of the ereader space didn't turn up anything I liked, or that seemed to come without strings. It is very possible that I missed an obvious and better.
- AdmiralAsshat 11y agoSeems like taking a Nexus 7 and gutting its OS simply to make a privacy-conscious eReader is a waste of a perfectly good tablet. Wouldn't it be easier and probably cheaper just to get a "dumb" e-reader (i.e. some kind of Kobo)?