#EinkBro (lightweight, fast, but powerful browser designed for #Eink devices.)
https://f-droid.org/packages/info.plateaukao.einkbro/

@CSB @SirBemrose A web browser for E-ink devices so it renders everything in black and white.

#日记
今天是本周我去办公室上班的第一天。一路在想着 #备用手机 的事。我目前已经有两个手机日常用了，一个 iphone 墙内日常电话微信；一个连接墙外自由世界（还有一些密钥等敏感资料）。
那第二个当备用机恐怕不合适，因此又翻出个老旧的安卓机，只装了些 #Fdroid 上的奇形怪状的app，以及 ykm 模拟器（因为要经常拿在手上）。
话说那个 #ServDroid 真不错（虽然 7年没更新，不过就一简单的 #http #server 也没啥好更新的）。
还有个浏览器 #EinkBro 也有意思，为水墨屏设计，非水墨屏也看着很舒服。
另还有个 #Wasted ，可于紧急时刻抹掉手机的数据。

望对大家有点帮助～

#mastodon (and #pleroma) clients for #android are… difficult. i've tried #tusky but removed it because of some bugs. tried #fedilab next but eventually ran into bugs too and removed it.

than was a long period of just keeping a tab open in the mobile browser (#einkbro) and it worked rather well to my surprise! no notifications is a feature to me!

however i'm just too curious for my own good, it's #husky's turn ;-)

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.keylesspalace.tusky/
https://f-droid.org/packages/fr.gouv.etalab.mastodon/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/su.xash.husky/

@shelenn Also, I did end up purchasing the Onyx BOOX Max Lumi, a 13.3" e-ink tablet, based on Android.

As a bookreader it's excellent. It's also quite good for podcast playback (large flat structures make good speakers, quelle surprise), and I'm finding its handwritten notetaking ability far more useful than expected. I do wish it had more onboard storage (64 GB, updated to 128 GB in the OBML2), and I'd aim for ~512 GB - 1 TB, which would still be quite reasonable (Apple's iPad Pro has up to 2 TB storage). Part of that is for books, but podcasts also suck up considerable space.

Battery life as an Android device is fairly typical: a full day's usage, generally. If used as a book reader, with all other elements off (backlight, WiFi, Bluetooth), the advertised days of battery are attainable. That's not my typical pattern. Web browsing is astoundingly power-hungry.

The display is delicious.

As a general compute device, though, it has all of Android's deficiencies.

Termux remains The One Android App Which Does Not Precisely and Exactly Suck.

EinkBro, an e-ink optimised Web browser, is superior to anything else, though it still has numerous issues (mostly ranging around persistence and content management). My second choice is actually w3m under Termux.

Pocket still gets worse the more you use it. https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_it_gets_worse_the_more_you_use_it/

#Tablets #Onyx #Boox #MaxLumi #AndroidSucks #Termux #EInkBro

Einkbro is a seriously good tablet browser

I just need to mention it again.

This is an Android browser aimed at E-Ink devices (though it works for any Android device). It's optimised foir E-Ink's strengths and weaknesses.

That actually makes it a really good browser for reading content online, which ... it turns out a whole hell of a lot of present-generation mobile browsers kind of suck at.

The developer's also highly responsive and I've seen a few of my own issues and requests addressed, which is a breath of fresh air. Oh, and it's FOSS.

https://github.com/plateaukao/browser

#Einkbro #FDroid #Android #WebBrowsers #Eink

EinkBro's save-as-ePub feature is ... uncannily brilliant

I've mentioned this e-ink optimised browser which I'm using increasingly heavily on my Onyx BOOX.

I've just realised it has a "save to ePub" feature. That's something like "save to PDF", but better:

• ePub strips out even more stock Web formatting. Remember: Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem.
• Open documents in any ePub or e-Book reader.
• Oh yeah: eInkBro reads ePubs.

But the kicker is this: you can save multiple sites to the same document. Each of them ends up as an individual chapter within that document.

That is something that could be quite interesting and useful. Grouping documents by some dimension such as:

• Random articles you've filed to read later on a given day.
• Growing article collections on a given topic. For me that might be general news, Covid / Pandemics, software development and systems management, theories of economic and political power, etc., etc.
• Items you want to forward to an individual or group.

As with most things e-Book-reader, I really wish the organising tools were better --- tagging, search, indexing, and metadata management. I'd also like to capture more information on the origin article --- original title, byline, website, date, and of course, URL. And I'd like to be able to easily repackage the articles later (I'm sure there are ePub doc management utilities similar to, say, Poppler Tools for PDF).

And yes, it's a fairly new browser with quirks and bugs. It remains the best tool for reading long-form Web content on my tablet, bar none.

But this is pretty nifty.

https://github.com/plateaukao/browser

Available on F-Droid:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/info.plateaukao.einkbro/

(Repost for URL.)

#einkbro #WebBrowsers #eink #boox #onyx #epub

EinkBro: Web browsing for E-Ink devices

I'd recently run across this via a Reddit post. A web browser designed specifically for e-ink devices. Features:

• Pagination rather than scroll-based navigation.
• Reader mode.
• Font bolding.
• Font size adjustments.
• PDF export (missing entirely from Fennec Fox, annoyingly hidden on Chromium).

Base seems to be Chromium/Blink. GNU GPL.

I'm still mostly browsing via Fennec (better privacy and ad controls), but for quick reading or generating printed/PDF copy, EinkBro is quite useful.

https://fossdroid.com/a/einkbro.html

#EinkBro #EInk #WebBrowsers