Sadly, I think a free and open source operating system for e-readers will never happen. The tech is too fringe for serious developers to allocate time and resources to do anything for free.

But supporting awful companies like Amazon is getting harder and harder if you were born with a conscience, and right about now, an open source ebook reader, free of corporate restrictions ...

Calibre is open-source eBook management software. The app can organize your collection and convert books to other formats. You can also use Calibre to load books directly onto your e-reader.

Digital “eBooks” and the ... on what he calls the “The Open Book Project” for a few months now, and he’s just recently announced that the first reader has been successfully assembled ...

Although ebooks and ... a few off-brand e-readers that allow users to take a bit of control back and manually manage their files and libraries, there are few options for open-source solutions.

Find out more about how we test. Calibre is an open source ebook reader and manager that’s lightweight and lightning-fast. Unlike many free ebook readers, Calibre supports Amazon’s AWZ format ...

My colleague John Timmer reported yesterday on Amazon's new Kindle e-book reader. Kindle's software platform unsurprisingly runs on the Linux operating system and uses numerous open-source ...

Has the community tossed out a simple reader program yet? I'd prefer to be secure in the knowledge that anything I read isn't being phoned home to Apple or Amazon, and it seems like a simple ...