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This is maybe the biggest FINALLY in my career as a purveyor of Oddly Specific Objects: The Open Book is in prelaunch at Crowd Supply! But it's not the same old Open Book; we're launching the all-new, completely reimagined Open Book Touch with WiFi and Bluetooth support, a higher-resolution display, capacitive touchscreen, and frontlight with adjustable color temperature. Subscribe for updates here! crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific…

Open Book Touch

A pocketable, open-source backlit e-reader
Crowd Supply
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Ekaitz Zarraga 👹
Ekaitz Zarraga 👹
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I have many questions about it!

what kind of formats does it support?
Is it just txt like the older versions?

I am very interested on this device

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ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ
ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ
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@ekaitz_zarraga You have to compile the book into a C source file, which you then compile and flash on the device to read it. ;-)
@Ekaitz Zarraga 👹
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Ekaitz Zarraga 👹
Ekaitz Zarraga 👹
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@deshipu well, the old one was a little bit like that. You had to compile the books to some txt file and store them in the internal database...
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ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ
ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ
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@ekaitz_zarraga The good news is that it's open source, so it supports any format that you care to implement!
@Ekaitz Zarraga 👹
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Ekaitz Zarraga 👹
Ekaitz Zarraga 👹
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@deshipu I tried to add epub support to the previous version but the whole architecture needed to be changed for that and I gave up...
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joey castillo
joey castillo
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@ekaitz_zarraga @deshipu yeah we have experimental ePub parsing working right now on the device, but for the moment I’m aiming for the minimum viable product to be plain text files stored on an SD card. No need to compile books as C files; we left that workflow behind several years ago :)
@Ekaitz Zarraga 👹 @ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ
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Thib
Thib
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I could be the audience for this project!

The main unknown: Do you budget time to work on the OS?

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joey castillo
joey castillo
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Can anyone confirm for me: is there a subscribe link on that page, can you sign up for updates?
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Oblomov
Oblomov
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not as a logged-out user AFAICS. It says «This project is launching soon. Coming Soon. 0 updates» at the top right of the page. The only subscription thing I can see is the form for the Crowd Supply newsletter.
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Felicitas Pojtinger
Felicitas Pojtinger
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This is incredible! I've been trying to source the screen for the original open book and just couldn't find it anywhere.
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joey castillo
joey castillo
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If you tried to sign up for updates on Open Book Touch earlier but couldn't find the Subscribe button, please try again! The button is there now. Sorry, first day kinks and all, but we'll get there! crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific…

Open Book Touch

A pocketable, open-source backlit e-reader
Crowd Supply
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Oblomov
Oblomov
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OK now I can see the subscribe form right below the image 8-)
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Ben Evans
Ben Evans
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Really looking forward to this coming out.

Small suggestion: Beta-testing it with some sample titles from standardebooks.org/ might be an idea - they produce lovely free editions that would be great to see on the Open Book.

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Morgan Arnold
Morgan Arnold
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out of curiosity, what's the barrier to getting koreader running on an esp32? this looks awesome (and it's not my first time seeing the open book and thinking as much!), just curious what the barrier is to using existing open source ereader firmware
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Morgan Arnold @joey castillo afaik koreader has been written to run on a computer¹ with a full operating system. This is a microcontroller based system, different architecture, orders of magnitude less resources.

So I'd say somewhere between “requires a full rewrite” and “just impossible”

¹ yes, a smartphone is a full computer, and so are most ebook readers. they are smaller than a PC, but potentially run the same software, and if they don't it's because the producers artificially added locks to prevent it.

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Morgan Arnold
Morgan Arnold
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@valhalla ah, gotcha! i wasn't sure how koreader interacts with hardware. i know that it's written in lua, but if it expects to be able to interact with hardware through direct communication with the kernel, i guess that's kind of intractable
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Kevin Freitas
Kevin Freitas
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Awesome! And, if we can get a browser on here, a low-power Home Assistant control pad?

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