Open Book Touch Is a $149 Anti-Tablet Built Just for Reading

It’s been a long time in the making, but Open Book Touch has finally been perfected and is available for purchase. This open source e-book was designed for reading, and nothing else. There are no browsers, ads, or notifications to get in the way. Every aspect of the hardware and software has been tuned specifically for people who like to read. And if something about it isn’t exactly to your liking, you can change it — Open Book Touch is meant to be hacked.

In contrast to the increasingly tablet-like direction many modern e-readers have taken, Open Book Touch intentionally does less. Built around an ESP32-S3 microcontroller instead of a Linux-based system, it boots directly into your current book and consumes less than a milliamp while reading.

A lot of effort was put into formatting the text (📷: Oddly Specific Objects)

The compact reader includes a 4.26-inch, 480 ×...

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