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Awesome Interface for e-Readers
10 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2022-06-13 · latest 2026-09-08
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If you're looking to tinker with a Kobo Clara HD, you can install PostmarketOS on it ;) I created https://github.com/bjesus/air for this device.
comment by yoavm · 2026-09-08 · in Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader -
FWIW, some Kobos can run PostmarketOS. I built this UI for my Clara - https://www.github.com/bjesus/air . It runs Firefox, Syncthing, KOReader, and basically anything else you can run on Linux.
comment by yoavm · 2026-08-21 · in Kobo can run apps now -
One can also just run Linux on most Kobos. I wrote and am using this every day: https://github.com/bjesus/air
comment by yoavm · 2026-06-15 · in Your ePub Is fine -
This! I've worked on https://github.com/bjesus/air as a completely alternative and open source UI for my Kobo Clara HD. PostmarketOS support on the device is great and very recently an important patch that will allow us to use Wayland was…
comment by yoavm · 2025-02-17 · in All Kindles can now be jailbroken -
…devices can run PostmarketOS pretty well. I wrote this interface especially for my Kobo Clara HD: https://github.com/bjesus/air
comment by yoavm · 2024-04-10 · in Kobo announces color e-readers -
…so I'm not surprised that nobody has picked up that torch yet. That is what I'm trying to do with https://github.com/bjesus/air . Kobo runs mainline Linux quite fine, and specifically PostmarketOS works great. Assembling an interface that…
comment by yoavm · 2023-08-27 · in E-ink is so Retropunk -
shameless plug: I'm loving my PostmarketOS powered Kobo and even built a small interface for it: https://github.com/bjesus/air and would highly recommend it to fellow hackers. I use it pretty much daily for reading, and occasionally for…
comment by yoavm · 2023-08-26 · in E-ink is so Retropunk -
…Linux, making this super easy to build. Specifically I'm working on a UI for the Kobo Clara HD: https://github.com/bjesus/air
comment by yoavm · 2023-05-17 · in Show HN: My solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame -
…less needed if your personal calendar is Google because i heard they have their own integration. https://github.com/bjesus/air is my AwesomeWM based Interface to my PostmarketOS Kobo e-reader. Linux on your e-reader isn't a huge market…
comment by yoavm · 2022-06-24 · in Ask HN: Your admittedly useless side projects? -
…based interface for e-readers, currently happily running it as a daily driver on my Kobo Clara HD. https://github.com/bjesus/air . It's very fun to have an e-ink device running modern Linux, and it's also very cheap :)
comment by yoavm · 2022-06-13 · in PostmarketOS 22.06 released – now upgrades are possible