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Only for reading, easily available in EU, low budget: which e-ink device/distro? (feddit.org)
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Only for reading, easily available in EU, low budget: which e-ink device/distro?

I'm looking for something to read books on, copied over from a local collection (mostly .epub). Networking is not desired, a fast USB connection is. A good battery or exchangeable battery would be nice.

Not too large - maximum DIN A5 for the whole device.

I remember from years ago that some devices were deemed unhackable, some much more suitable to install Linux on.

I'd prefer to buy used, so something that was sold a lot in Europe is preferable.

I will not spend much more than €100.

In other words, some old commercial e-reader that was known for being hackable, I guess.

Please do not recommend the new PineNote, it's (slightly) too large and way too expensive and I don't think I need that much computing power.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you remember if they required an initial sign-on, account creation or something like that?

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 3 points 4 weeks ago

Not that I recall other than if you wanted to use their book sync function. My one gripe has been that it has to use dropbox or their cloud service to auto sync books.

Since I have an email server in house I'd rather hoped to just make an email account for it and send things via calibre that way. But manual copy or downloading via the (rather slow and basic) built in browser works too.