I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience

  • Sparking@lemm.eeEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    Just an open source e-ink device with the build quality of a Kindle. Nothing fancy.

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      reMarkable, been using gen 1 then 2 for years now, runs on Linux and active dev community

      less slick and much smaller community but the PineNote also works with Linux, kind of.

      • Sparking@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Remarkable looks cool, but I was talking about a dedicated e-reader. They probably won’t bother because their differentiator is the writing.

        There needs to be one that is kindle adjacent, ru s linux, and comes with a ton of selections from project gutenberg, selling a little bit above cost. Thats the only way I could see this working.

      • daddyjones@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Remarkable would be awesome if I could read my Kindle books on it. It seems to me that most e-ink tablets are good at either taking notes or ebooks, but none are really good at both…

        • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          This is more of a kindle lock in thing than a limitation of the Remarkable IMO. I use my remarkable 2 daily for reading. Everything I read is pirated and DRM free though.

          If you feel strongly about giving money to the author amazon, then you could limit yourself to only downloading books which you’ve purchased for your kindle.