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What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader (itsfoss.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] ricdeh 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably because the computational hardware is not powerful enough to implement a (proto) web browser

[–] mesamunefire 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a raspberry pi pico. Ebooks could probably work with it on the new version.

[–] Blue_Morpho 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It said it's a 120mhz SAMD51 ARM Cortex-M4.

[–] mesamunefire 4 points 1 year ago

There's a version with the pi pico https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book