Posted Aug 28, 2013 8:02 UTC (Wed) by fb (subscriber, #53265)
Parent article: Calibrating Calibre 1.0
Good thing about LWN is that I come here to read about Calibre, and learn not only of its history of security vulnerabilities but also of why I should not use Google Play.
The history with Google Play linked through "One should not have to worry about things like having one's books deleted as a consequence of crossing a national border." only makes me appreciate my Kindle even more.
The Kindle gets bashed (in some portions of the internet) because of Amazon's use of the kill switch on Orwell's 1984 some years ago, but honestly I find it the perfect /trustworthy/ reading device (ok, short of having a "Debian/Ubuntu for e-readers") as it can spend its entire life with the "Airplace Mode" ON with books being copied through USB.
Posted Sep 6, 2013 6:35 UTC (Fri) by eternaleye (guest, #67051)
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A device running Android (or Replicant) with FBReader would be a good bet. If you go with Replicant and FBReader, it's all FLOSS software, and FBReader can (AFAIU) pull from Calibre's OPDS server mode over the network.
