On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 9:17 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
> PS: I believe Pocketbook uses Linux or Android based firmware. They > are known for NOT locking users to a shop and do well with PDF, too. IIRC. Android. The Kindle also uses Android, and because Android uses a Linux kernel and Linux is open source, so is Kindle firmware. (The vast majority of Kindle users aren't aware of it and could make use of it if they were.) At least one Kindle model - the DX - could handle PDFs. No surprise - it was aimed the education market, where if textbooks were available in electronic form at all, they would be PDFs. The DX bundled a mobile version of Adobe PDF reader, and had a larger screen size to allow viewing of PDFs because most were not built to reflow to fit the screen. I use a 7" Android tablet as eBook viewer, with eBook viewer software called FBReader for Android. FBReader displays AZW3, ePub, Mobi, FB2 (a popular Russian eBook format) and a few other things native, and can handle PDFs, DjVu files, and CBR/CBZ comics files via plugins. In practice, I prefer ePub and don't normally try to view PDFs on the tablet. Because they don't reflow to fit the screen, they can be actively painful to try to read on a mobile device. You can get Kindle apps for most platforms that can be used to buy and download from Amazon. Amazon doesn't care what you use to view books they sell. They just want to be the only place you get them. Because the carry everything and offer the best pricing, they largely succeed. ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
