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I'm with you on that, I got mine back in 2013(?) on sale for $30 CAD. still works, but battery is a bit weak. They were also neat cause you could telnet into th

I'm with you on that, I got mine back in 2013(?) on sale for $30 CAD. still works, but battery is a bit weak. They were also neat cause you could telnet into the modified debian os to add you own homebrew apps

hgyjnbdet 3y ago
I didn't know you could do that! I've only been using it as intended.
- ornornor 3y ago
  On most (all?) kobos, you can also upgrade the storage to whatever you want because it’s a microsd card slotted into the board. Just copy the system partition over to the new sd, expand, done. Mind you, I never needed to do it because 4 or 8GB is a ton of ebooks. I’ll probably never need that much space anyway. But if you’re reading larger files, might be handy.
  - nottorp 3y ago
    > because 4 or 8GB is a ton of ebooks But if they go colour, how many comics is it? Although 6" is too little for comics unless someone makes the effort to make every panel a separate screen on the ebook...
    - ornornor 3y ago
      Yes that’s a different story. I was talking about my own use case which is EPUBs that are typically a couple MB per book.
  - AdmiralAsshat 3y ago
    > On most (all?) kobos, you can also upgrade the storage to whatever you want because it’s a microsd card slotted into the board. Nah, that's no longer universally true. Pretty sure the Sage and Elipsa use soldered eMMC storage instead of micro SD.
    - ornornor 3y ago
      That’s a bummer, it was a neat feature.
      - AdmiralAsshat 3y ago
        It was, especially since I consider that a hindrance to using the newer devices for 10-years, which the older ones can happily do with a properly-imaged new SD card. Even though I love my Sage, it makes me consider whether I should grab a Libra 2 if I ever see it on the cheap, just to have a comparable device that still has the memory on a SD card. The Kobo's that just launched claim they will have better repair-ability through a partnership with iFixIt, so maybe we'll see how that impacts the ability to change the storage.
  - crtasm 3y ago
    My old Kobo was sold with a 1GB partition on a 2GB card, fastest upgrade ever!

hgyjnbdet 3y ago

I didn't know you could do that! I've only been using it as intended.

ornornor 3y ago
On most (all?) kobos, you can also upgrade the storage to whatever you want because it’s a microsd card slotted into the board. Just copy the system partition over to the new sd, expand, done. Mind you, I never needed to do it because 4 or 8GB is a ton of ebooks. I’ll probably never need that much space anyway. But if you’re reading larger files, might be handy.
- nottorp 3y ago
  > because 4 or 8GB is a ton of ebooks But if they go colour, how many comics is it? Although 6" is too little for comics unless someone makes the effort to make every panel a separate screen on the ebook...
  - ornornor 3y ago
    Yes that’s a different story. I was talking about my own use case which is EPUBs that are typically a couple MB per book.
- AdmiralAsshat 3y ago
  > On most (all?) kobos, you can also upgrade the storage to whatever you want because it’s a microsd card slotted into the board. Nah, that's no longer universally true. Pretty sure the Sage and Elipsa use soldered eMMC storage instead of micro SD.
  - ornornor 3y ago
    That’s a bummer, it was a neat feature.
    - AdmiralAsshat 3y ago
      It was, especially since I consider that a hindrance to using the newer devices for 10-years, which the older ones can happily do with a properly-imaged new SD card. Even though I love my Sage, it makes me consider whether I should grab a Libra 2 if I ever see it on the cheap, just to have a comparable device that still has the memory on a SD card. The Kobo's that just launched claim they will have better repair-ability through a partnership with iFixIt, so maybe we'll see how that impacts the ability to change the storage.
- crtasm 3y ago
  My old Kobo was sold with a 1GB partition on a 2GB card, fastest upgrade ever!