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.
Pocketbook has been good to me, not bound to any particular format or shop, just reads files and a lot of them are fairly inexpensive.
I would assume they’re available in Europe since I believe it’s a German company.
They are. On a related note, does anybody have any experience with handwriting recognition on the Pocketbook Inkpad? I’d like to get something like that for note taking. But that only makes sense for me if it can read my terrible scrawls.
That Verse model is quite nice for the price!
My wife has been asking about an eBook reader - her kobo broke some time ago, so she makes use of my modded kindle when I’m not, otherwise she reads on her phone.
This seems like a solid option!
And maybe the nice big color one for me…
Even a new one would start at €115, that’s cheap. How’s the battery?
I have a verse and haven’t charged it in probably 2 months. Granted I don’t use it heavily, mostly a bit at bedtime, but it seems to sip power pretty well.