Does this mean I can finally stop wondering why on earth I can’t get ye flask?

Kids these days were never likely to be eaten by a grue… and it shows. ;)

I don’t understand why this needs hardware. Existing devices can already do this

I’m 90% sure that I could play gamebooks right now with my 7-year-old jailbroken Kindle. 100% sure that I could play other types of IF with one of the Boox devices that run Android.

Nice.

Now, how long till I can get an ebook reader / eink device with proper open source software? Or anyone have any recommendations?

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