Games have come a long way since the days of consoles like the ZX Spectrum, but fantasy lovers still crave interactive fiction games like The Hobbit for an alternative kind of adventure where the narrative is the main driving force. To be honest, gaming and reading have always gone hand-in-hand,
Nice.
Now, how long till I can get an ebook reader / eink device with proper open source software? Or anyone have any recommendations?
Looks like the one this is talking about is expected to be open hardware + open software. Given its based on the ESP32 chipset, should be relatively inexpensive and fairly standard
https://www.crowdsupply.com/ink-console/ink-console
The pocketbook is the best I know of on the market right now. I have one (bought it a few months back) and it is exactly what was advertised.
The PineNote. Depending on your definition of “proper”, since it ships with GNOME and AFAICT only supports Wayland, and Wayland doesn’t have many compositors that work well on a device with no keyboard.