No experience with it unfortunately. Even if it were already released, I can't afford an ereader... But if I had the money, this is the one that seems most promising. Otherwise, what's available right now really doesn't look that great to me lol.

Hm … sounds interesting , still price is higher than current kindle. Do you have real life experience with it? Does it have offline dictionary? Upd: watched the video - it seems it has some dictionary. The problem is that it will be shipped in mid 2027 :)

For just a little bit more, there's the Open Book Touch? I think it meets most of the criteria other than being touchscreen based, which I'm not thrilled about either. In every other way it's pretty cool. If you put it on wifi, it has a webui to upload books to. No accounts, no DRM of course since it's open source, has backlight but it's optional etc.

If to accept fate, then among touch screen readers kindle 2024 is the cheapest one . Is it a lot of hassle with it, considering I don’t have a kindle account and never going to buy any books there ?

Edit: pocketbook basic lux2 on eBay goes for same price as amazon kindle 2024 . And kobo is 2x that price .

As for touch screen , I expect it to be clumsy considering eink displays refresh rate .. so consequences of false touch is neglectible on other display types, but it should be annoying on eink .

As for Xteink , I’m not buying this hype since I don’t see any value for me here : tiny screen and fragile as hell while price is close to a kindle. It promotes as a pocket reader , while tons of posts with broken screens and following comments like “never put it to pocket “ or “never use it without protective case”. So, no thanks …

I've yet to own one but I've had my eye on the XTEINK devices and I've only heard good things. They're quite a bit smaller than 6 inches but most of them have no backlight or touch screen. I understand when people prefer the tactile feeling of buttons over a touch screen but you're the first to say you experience fear. Can you elaborate on that?

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.

on the other hand, the open os meant i could just make one of the shortcuts point to koreader.

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.

I have a Boox device, which also runs android. The fact that I can run Mihon on it is awesome.

Yeah, I've got one of the small boox. Runs android, something like ten or eleven? I think.

It does okay despite the weak ram amount. I use moon+ for all my android reading as long as it'll work. And it does fine on that one. Notably, it does better than the native boox reader by a big margin, particularly with a big library.

You get a little lag switching between books, and some tiny flicker switching pages, but it's otherwise quite nice. I prefer it to my older kobo for sure, and it ancient nookHD for sure. But I still prefer reading on a regular tablet with a decent screen overall because it's easier to get a dark (but not black) background with white text, which is what my eyes prefer.

I had try to jailbreak my Linux but it's get blocked when I try to add books, it's highly frustrating

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.