E-book reader

This is an article about e-readers which use sexy e-ink screens. If you were looking for information about e-readers which use LCD/OLED screens, go to the article about tablets.

Recommendations

/g/uide to ebook readers

Keyboard

• Kindle Keyboard
  • As well as 1st-3rd Kindle generations, when buying used
• Kindle DX
  • One of the better devices for reading manga. Although, it may be inconvenient when reading currently running series as chapters must be loaded onto the device manually.

Touch screens

• Kindle Touch
• Kobo Touch
• Nook Simple Touch

Frontlit

• Kindle Paperwhite
• Kobo Glo
• Nook Simple Touch GlowLight

Beyond Stock

Nook

• GApps and SearchMarket?
• Install multitouch Fast Mode kernel
• Disable Android and B&N bloatware by using a SystemAppRemover (or oandbackup?)
  • AFfileDownloadService.apk
  • AccountAndSyncSettings.apk
  • AirRuntime.apk
  • ApplicationsProvider.apk
  • BnAuthenticationService.apk
  • BnCloudRequestSvc.apk
  • ContactsProvider.apk
  • CryptoServer.apk
  • DemoMode.apk
  • DeviceManager.apk
  • DeviceRegistrator.apk
  • GlobalSearch.apk
  • gtalkservice.apk
  • Music.apk
  • NookCommunity.apk
  • Phone.apk
  • QuickStartActivity.apk
  • Social.apk
  • SysChecksum.apk
  • Talk.apk
  • TalkProvider.apk
  • TelephoneProvider.apk
  • WaveformDownloader.apk
• Downclock CPU
• build.prop:

# Tweaks
persist.sys.use_dithering=1
persist.sys.purgeable_assets=1
debug.sf.hw=1
video.accelerate.hw=1
debug.performance.tuning=1
ro.compcache.default=18
ro.kernel.android.checkjni=0
ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1
# Dalvik options
dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:fast
dalvik.vm.heapsize=128m
dalvik.vm.deoxopt-flags=m=v,o=y
# Battery
ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=1
pm.sleep_mode=1
wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=180

• Remap buttons with NookTouchTools
• Useful apps:
  • Cool Reader
  • Perfect Viewer
  • APV PDF Viewer Pro
  • Mango
  • Root Browser/ES File Explorer
  • Calculator MobiCalc
  • aCalendar
  • Launcher8
  • GoKeyboard

Kobo

It's possible to install a proper Android system onto the Kobo Glo. However, this does require some work and has a few drawbacks (battery life is the main one). Since the device uses an internal microSD card for booting you should be able to acquire a second one and swap back to the first one in the event that you fuck it up.

The method for doing this uses images acquired from a Tolino Shine reader which has nearly identical hardware:

• http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?s=6166012b387a015430bb4c1826c990dc&p=2681530&postcount=64

FLOSS e-book readers

Although the project is now pretty much dead, you could obtain an old e-reader that the FLOSS system openinkpot supported (https://web.archive.org/web/20160314074551/http://morgue.openinkpot.org/). The following models (from http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Openinkpot) were supported:

• Azbooka
• Hanlin V3 since release 0.1
• Hanvon N516 since 0.2
• Hanvon N510 since 0.2

Converting Files

E-books come in a variety of formats and you may find one that your device does not support.

• Calibre - (Cross-platform) Converts between almost every e-reader supported format.
• KindleComicConverter (KCC) - (Cross-platform) Converts and optimizes manga and comics to epub, mobi, and cbz formats.

See Alsa

• DjVu file format.

External Links

http://nookdevs.com/Main_Page