{"id":5341,"date":"2011-06-11T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T02:31:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-11T08:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T02:31:05","slug":"most-hackable-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/most-hackable-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Hackable E-Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m interested in purchasing an e-reader of some kind (i.e. must use e-ink tech, no LCD screens) and wondering if anyone has any suggestions about which reader lends itself most to tinkering \/ extending \/ hacking? Are there any that make it possible to install your own software? (It would be cool to see i.e. Emacs running on one.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/nookcolor\/index.asp\">Nook Color<\/a>, hands down. Unfortunately, your eInk criterion limits you to cheap Chinese knockoffs. If you&#8217;re willing to go LCD, you won&#8217;t be disappointed with a Nook Color. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyanogenmod.com\/devices\/nook-color\">Cyanogen<\/a> makes <em>the<\/em> ROM for it, and they are nearly impossible to brick. Heck, you can run a custom ROM right off the microSD card, never putting your warranty in jeopardy. And, because it&#8217;s Cyanogen, you can read nearly anything, and have full Android Market access.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/ask\/users\/107\/christopher\/\">Christopher<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nook Color<br \/>\n$249<br \/>\nAvailable from and manufactured by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/nookcolor\/index.asp\">Barnes and Noble<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cyanogen Nook Color Rom<br \/>\nFree<br \/>\nAvailable from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyanogenmod.com\/devices\/nook-color\">Cyanogen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a different answer to this question? <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/ask\/questions\/304\/which-is-the-most-openhackable-e-reader\">Submit your own!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question and Answer of the Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}