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PineNote aside, what privacy respecting e-paper reader would you recommend?
I'd like to buy a PineNote in a few months, but development although improving isn't there yet, so I wonder if there are other models worth of consideration from a tinkerer/privacy conscious user point of view. I don't mean hacking the reader or flash it with a FOSS firmware, but would love to see some features most consumer products usually lack along with others I would need.
0- Not tied to any online or cloud service, no online "activation" etc.
1- Enough horsepower to not require too much time for page flips when reading complex pdfs.
2- 10 inches minimum, possibly 13". I mostly read electronics books, and schematics/graphs on smaller screens are a royal nightmare.
3- Support for NFS/CIFS local network shares
4- No need for drawing functions, editing or annotations, reading alone is more than enough
5- Bonus: a decent mp3 player and a 3.5 headphone jack, but those aren't required at all.
6- Same as above for a reading front light: welcome but not required.
I plan to wait at least a couple months, possibly more, in the hope the PineNote development makes it ready for general use, but just in case, any recommendations? Thanks!
- eternityforest 4y agoI think there might be a way to set up some of the Kobos offline. I really like mine, it has support for many sideloaded formats via USB, and apparently some decent hackability. I'm not sure how good they are for fully offline privacy friendly use, and they don't have CIFS(And if they did they'd probably phone home when you connected to WiFi). As an aside: I wonder if textbooks will ever start being published in formats optimized for small size. It would be cool if A5 or A6 became the default paper size for more things, large format paper is a hassle to physically transport, and troublesome on cheaper e-readers.
- ThrowawayR2 4y agoProbably the Sony DPT-S1 (13") or its successors, the DPT-RP1 (13") and DPT-CP1 (10"), if you can find one. Dedicated document reader for PDFs only, responds very crisply to page turns even for textbooks with diagrams, documents can be copied onto the device over USB so no online account is required. You can get imported units off eBay or find one of the few remaining North American units on Goodreads' store.