DeDRM_tools VS The-Open-Book

Here is the download page for DeDRM Tools v10.0.9: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/tag/v10.0.9

legal reasons? Seriously, has the DRM mafia cowed people so much? What the hell is wrong with sharing public software tools with others?

Here's one option you might try (no connection to it but it seems to be one of the most recently usable, trustworthy versions) https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

I think either one would be fine. I know pocketbook prices are better especially in the used department. If you do go with the era I suggest keeping your kindle and use calibre. I'm not sure if you can just move the books straight to your pc or not so with calibre you should be able to access your ku books, remove the drm with this plugin, and then put those books your the pocketbook era.

The Calibre plugins you need are DeACSM and DeDRM.

after having downloaded the books you want through the kobo desktop software, use calibre and the obok dedrm plugin (downloaded books get detected automatically) to remove the drm and get standard epubs you can use anywhere https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases

Yes it's drm protected just download this deDRM plugin extract it and add to calibre https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

In general, Kobo is probably the best option. Google Play Books would likely also work well. B&N also works, but the process of removing their DRM is more of a pain these days, since they got rid of their old non-Windows Store PC application. With any of them, you can use the software here to remove their DRM (in most cases, using it as a plugin via calibre). And once, you've removed the DRM, you can use calibre to convert the books from epub to mobi or azw3 or whatever you need to get stuff on your Kindle, since Kindle doesn't support epub like everyone else.

i download my kobo books through the pc software, then remove their drm with calibre and the dedrm plugin ( https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases ). it auto detects your downloaded books, removes the drm and adds them to your calibre library

Have you seen the "Open Book" project?

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

Open book project https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

If you want to get all custom, you could build an e-reader https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-powered-open-source-ebook-reader

>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.

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

This may be up your alley.

It's not a commercial off the shelf product, but the Open Book uses a 4.2" screen. There are other devices you can find on places like AliBaba that are kinda small. However, in general you won't find a name brand commercial ereader under 6" that isn't ina phone body. There were a couple at 5" back-when but the industry really settled on 6" as the common base size.

This is very useful to see examples of how people have used APIs that are either poorly documented or not at all. Or even that are well documented, really. Going from docs to code is not always straightforward.

To give you just one example, recently I've been using it to find how people have written code to interface with e-ink displays. I usually have the datasheet which lists all the commands the protocol support, but building it all into a valid startup sequence of ~20 commands to activate the display is left as an exercise for the reader.

So the docs will look like this: https://www.waveshare.com/w/upload/6/6a/4.2inch-e-paper-spec...

And what I need is a sequence like this: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book/blob/5c5054c58...

There is a link to the project early in the article: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book