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 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.