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Comment on What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader

I'm not sure I understand, epub is both the industry standard and an open format, as far as I know. Why not work on using it or build it around epub from the get-go?

I have to admit I'll have to wait for the project to start implementing epub to consider getting on board, but it's still a great effort.

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runefehay@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It looks like it is powered by a microcontroller. Maybe it isn't powerful enough to support epub?

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- Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s a 120mhz Arm CPU. That’s more than enough for epub. For comparison the 25 Mhz 68030 in the Next computer used Adobe Postcript (PDF) as it’s GUI.
  
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ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Probably because the computational hardware is not powerful enough to implement a (proto) web browser

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- mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s a raspberry pi. It can work with it on the new version.
  
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  - Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It said it’s a 120mhz SAMD51 ARM Cortex-M4.
    
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    mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    There’s a version with the pi pico github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
    
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