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Interactive Fiction Games Could Make A Comeback With This E-reader Handheld Console (retrododo.com)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/games
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

I don't understand why this needs hardware. Existing devices can already do this

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

I'm 90% sure that I could play gamebooks right now with my 7-year-old jailbroken Kindle. 100% sure that I could play other types of IF with one of the Boox devices that run Android.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You have:

No tea

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Get tea and no tea

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Your common sense prevents you from doing that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Kids these days were never likely to be eaten by a grue... and it shows. ;)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Nice.

Now, how long till I can get an ebook reader / eink device with proper open source software? Or anyone have any recommendations?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Looks like the one this is talking about is expected to be open hardware + open software. Given its based on the ESP32 chipset, should be relatively inexpensive and fairly standard

https://www.crowdsupply.com/ink-console/ink-console

[–] PuddleOfKittens 2 points 4 days ago

The PineNote. Depending on your definition of "proper", since it ships with GNOME and AFAICT only supports Wayland, and Wayland doesn't have many compositors that work well on a device with no keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The pocketbook is the best I know of on the market right now. I have one (bought it a few months back) and it is exactly what was advertised.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can i still read my kindle bought stuff on it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Iirc kindle books come with DRM, which you can break using a calibre plugin.

Honestly downloading books from libgen is so much easier I don't think I've bought a kindle book in 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That holds if you read stuff that is mostly well known. I read in swedish a lot, and a fair amount of obscure philosophy and science stuff, and it is not always available there :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I generally read moderately niche fiction titles and they're all there, but I am monolingual so everything is in English.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Does this mean I can finally stop wondering why on earth I can't get ye flask?