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Good replacement for PocketBook Basic Lux2 ? (lemmy.ml)
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I have no idea how or when, but somehow I broke my e-reader's screen after almost 6 years of active usage.

I was very satisfied with simplicity of the PocketBook lux2 and now I need to find a good replacement.

A quick search on the internet revealed that the industry unfortunately moved towards touchscreens , which frightens me....

My ideal e-reader:

  • 6 inch screen,
  • physical buttons,
  • no touch screen,
  • ideally without backlight, but if it has, no big deal
  • same open as PocketBook - so I can read books from my library without any stores, drm checks etc...

Why don't I simply buy the current PocketBook Verse ? It is 50% more expensive than my old model without any improvements, with freakishly small buttons and it looks much thicker than lux2.

So any recommendations will be appreciated!

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    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 :)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    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.

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