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  • seas_surround [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    I have the box leaf 2 and it does exactly what I want it to - let me copy pirated ebooks from my desktop via syncthing, and it doesn’t do anything I didn’t ask it to

    • vovchik_ilich [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      While you’re right that they’re not great to repair, I have a Nova Pro from about 6-7 years ago, it broke this year, and after contacting the manufacturer they offered to repair it for some 70€ (entire motherboard replacement), which isn’t too bad imo

      • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        That’s pretty good!

        I picked up a refurbed Kindle Oasis for like $50 (CAD) a couple years ago which I think was a pretty good deal. I just can’t justify the cost for a nicer b+w device and color e-ink just isn’t as good as I want it to be, I’m just kinda waiting for them to get good enough to feel like a real upgrade

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Book Reader runs Linux. So does ReMarkable (which is insanely overpriced, but actually nice if you can find a used one for ~ $150). The ReMarkable even includes instructions on connecting to the device via SSH and you can pretty easily run whatever you want on it. Including just making the rootfs a git repo.

  • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Absolutely love my BOOX Palma. It’s a Kindle but if the Kindle was the size of a small smartphone and full Android but still eink. It’s basically perfect. I can browse Hexbear, read my newspapers, books, whatever, all super easily on a great eink screen and it’s tiny. No complaints, and it’s like $200.

    • LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      BOOX Palma

      Android

      Ouch, wish that wasn’t the case. I’d prefer e-readers with close-to-mainline-Linux and Libre stacks, for future maintainability. Android stock is fine, but good mainline support almost always means better long-term Android support too.

      • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        They even have different e-ink refresh rate modes. If you’re just reading a book, it auto adjusts to very low refresh rates with high quality, because you’re just turning pages. With web browsing, you can adjust to be faster at a loss of quality; hell, it’s fast enough that you can even watch videos with eink if that’s what you want.