My kindle screen got damaged and I don’t find a place to repair it; here at the third world(I’m from Colombia). I decided to buy this baby on temu, it hasn’t arrived yet and it seems like delayed in transit, however I was wondering if you had trice devices different than kindle, Kobo, pocketbook. As a Foss enthusiasm, I like an open software such as android instead Amazon. When I had tried to get out my books from my kindle, it didn’t let me, by USB the epubs weren’t epubs anymore, that’s the reason why I don’t buy kindle anymore. Has you tried an Android device with e-ink technology? I think that it will be the future
android e-readers have been around for ages and personally i don’t think it’s a good fit. it’s way too power-hungry. with the low battery life and overabundance of features, you’re basically buying a tablet with a slow screen. i want my reading to be a focused experience.
to my delight, my kobo just ran a custom linux distribution from factory, and has its system on an sd card. all config is in plain text, installing applications is just drag-and-drop, and the only modification i had to do was add a user and create a fake book (a desktop icon) for each program.
I had try to jailbreak my Linux but it’s get blocked when I try to add books, it’s highly frustrating
I think your second paragraph highlights why android ereaders have some fans. It’s not so much that android is a great solution, but it does mean that you aren’t locked into the vendors OS and therefore store.
I self-host my eBook/comic library and so most ereaders won’t work with that or are a little persnickety.
on the other hand, the open os meant i could just make one of the shortcuts point to koreader.
Support is definitely getting better regarding all of that. I just sent up a OPDS service to Audiobookshelf to be able to get books on one of my ereaders.
Next step is setting up some method to sync reading progress, but one step at a time.