What does HackerNews think of The-Open-Book?

Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround | Dec 2022

>I really wish I could have an e-reader, but again, I don't want to spend money on things that will lock me into a single vendor indefinitely and might just arbitrarily go away.

This may be up your alley.

I like e-readers now | Sep 2021

Worth highlighting the Open Book Project [1], an open source e-reader hardware design and software stack.

The design is open, and you can make your own with commodity parts. People are starting to sell PCBs, and complete devices.

It has its own open software stack, and I hope will have a variety of vendors in the coming years.

Ofc the e-ink patent issues remain, but this goes some of the way to solve things at the e-reader level.

The Adafruit Feather and FeatherWing System | Jul 2021

First time I ever saw one of these was in this neat little project: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

I'm always delighted to see new open hardware projects, they always feel rare to me, and I'm stoked there are things like the feather making it marginally easier.

CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet | Mar 2021

Why don't you repurpose cheap e-book readers, such as Kobo, which run Linux? https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Debian_Linux_on_a_Kobo or BQ Cervantes: https://github.com/bq/cervantes or you can root the Nook e-reader running Android or you can check out the Open Book Project: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

My Life in E-Ink | Feb 2021

There's Open Book open source e-ink reader. Not sure how usable it is. https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

The next model is planned to use the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1356125145681846276

My Life in E-Ink | Feb 2021

How DIY are you looking for? The Open Book reader is a pretty neat project.

Bluetooth Trackball Mark II | Feb 2021

Have you checked out this project [1]? I found this one yesterday too. It’s a project working on an ebook built from various microcontrollers.

ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper | Aug 2020

This may interest you; might not be what you were asking for. I haven't built one, but keep an eye on it and dream of free time to surface mount solder and poke around with it. The repo used to have a cost estimate and think it came out to around $100 but my memory may be fuzzy.

Reasonably priced color e-ink display | Jul 2020

Not directly related but there's an awesome "Open Book" project which is an open source hardware e-book reader [1].

NODE VOL 02 – A zine featuring open hardware projects and decentralized software | Jun 2020

Nifty. It has a free download (pdf), and there are lots of interesting projects in this I haven't seen before.

The Open Book (https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book) is featured in there as well. :)

Open-source, DRM-free Kindle alternative | Jun 2020

who would want to read anything on 4.2" display?

I've had bigger (4.5") display in smartphone 8 years ago and I would not call even that suitable for reading books

why is nobody discussing this and why they don't show the device in hand to show how ridiculously small it is?

> Main features: > 4.2" inch e-paper display with partial refresh, driven over a dedicated SPI bus.

Open-source, DRM-free Kindle alternative | Jun 2020

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader

I'm so sad that WikiReader project, debuted in 2009, was abandoned in 2014.[0]

Hopefully, The Open Book looks more promising & would be able to fully replace WikiReader.

JFTR, Need write an article about The Open Book Project[1] on Wikipedia.[2]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Book

E Ink Introduces “Print-Color” Displays | Dec 2019

Maybe keep an eye on the The Open Book Project [1] which is attempting to create an open-hardware eBook reader.

E Ink just unveiled a new type of color e-paper | Nov 2019

Yeah. It'd be interesting to have something like this tech be used for a project like The Open Book (OSS e-book reader):