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I bought a Kindle in 2012 and the thing just sits in a drawer now. The hardware's great but it's crippled by the software/DRM which now refuses any attempt to login. Can't work out whether it's due to the age of the device or the fact I've since moved to Japan (Amazon JP is "special" compared to virtually every other country). I won't be buying another one.
I have an old Kindle that I don't really use anymore, a Kobo Aura 2, and I recently bought an Onyx Boox Note Pro. The Boox is awesome. It was expensive, but I think it was worth it. It's a huge 10" paperwhite tablet that runs custom Android. You would not want to lay in bed with it because of it's size and weight, but you can read large PDFs that are difficult to view on smaller screens (mostly due to obnoxious margi…
Onyx Boox Note Pro and ReMarkable are a completely, utterly different price tag and purpose than a Kobo or Kindle. A Kobo goes for 100-200 EUR (expensive ~40 EUR smartcover recommended though). Onyx Boox Note Pro and ReMarkable go for 350-500 EUR or so, and are also meant for drawing / note taking.
I'm wondering what innovations you need on your Kobo though. I would like to have Calibre support, so that I don't need to have my books stored on the device, but 8 GB is a lot of space for books anyway. Other than that, it Just Works (tm). Syncing works. I can even put the radio off to save battery. FWIW, you can even run custom apps on them.
That's the problem with many proprietary consumer devices (take the iPad into this category as well). 1. Vendor lock: You can't install or change most of the things including OS and Apps. 2. Locked down OS: You can't do anything with your device. If you try to change the OS you'll maybe brick it. 3. Planned obsolescence built in: If the vendor decides it's "time to say goodbye" you won't get updates anymore and proba…
It's practically a market failure. There was a color eReader[1] running Android 8 years ago (a small tablet before the iPad mini and Nexus 7)! That mirasol display is still better outdoors than the iPhone 11 Pro or iPad Pro at max brightness. If anyone took that old display tech and put it in a modern body I would pay up to $1K for it as well
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc1k6mlbN8k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUGRlsKzai4
Edit: The once-bright future of color e-paper (Engadget) https://www.engadget.com/2013/09/05/the-once-bright-future-o...
> The Kindle can’t even display web pages well! Its browser is slow and bad, though if you do manage to navigate to a page with an article on it, you can enter “Article Mode” and have a mediocre reading experience. For me, it is the biggest feature! Normally I cannot read - I get distracted every few minutes or so. (Though, there are things missing. I would love a better experience of reading previously saved article…
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I'm with you on the disappointment. Devices like remarkable and onyx book do give me hope that we might be going somewhere (finally). I remember there was a company that sold laptops with hybrid screens - that could do e-ink when used outside - but I think the screen manufacturer folded. Good color would be nice - but it doesn't look like anything will beat oled in that department for the forseeable future. If the re…
I'd just like to be able to write apps for the remarkable. Even a free one.
That's the problem with many proprietary consumer devices (take the iPad into this category as well). 1. Vendor lock: You can't install or change most of the things including OS and Apps. 2. Locked down OS: You can't do anything with your device. If you try to change the OS you'll maybe brick it. 3. Planned obsolescence built in: If the vendor decides it's "time to say goodbye" you won't get updates anymore and proba…
I'm with you on the disappointment. Devices like remarkable and onyx book do give me hope that we might be going somewhere (finally). I remember there was a company that sold laptops with hybrid screens - that could do e-ink when used outside - but I think the screen manufacturer folded. Good color would be nice - but it doesn't look like anything will beat oled in that department for the forseeable future. If the re…
That's the problem with many proprietary consumer devices (take the iPad into this category as well). 1. Vendor lock: You can't install or change most of the things including OS and Apps. 2. Locked down OS: You can't do anything with your device. If you try to change the OS you'll maybe brick it. 3. Planned obsolescence built in: If the vendor decides it's "time to say goodbye" you won't get updates anymore and proba…
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I'd just like to be able to write apps for the remarkable. Even a free one.
You can! For example, I wrote an app launcher for the device which allows you to boot other programs, or the default interface.
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You can side-load drm-free content on a Kindle, it’s pretty straightforward.
Amazon even give them all a unique email address so you can just send it supported files as easy as emailing a file. PDFs can be converted to native format by putting "convert" in the subject line.
I've worked on a service which converts web articles and sends them to the Kindle using Amazon's send-to-kindle feature. If anyone wants to try it: https://pushtokindle.fivefilters.org
Does anyone have experience with eink "tablets" running android? Onyx, Boyue/Lifebook or similar? Wondering how usable they are for browsing the web or reading Pocket or larger Pdfs?
It has been replaced with a jalibroken 2019 Kindle running Koreader. This is now the best ereader I have owned. Reads many formats, lots of customisation and has a Wallabag client for reading long form web articles.
I have paired this with Calibre on my laptop for managing my library.