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Absolutely love my BOOX Palma. It's a Kindle but if the Kindle was the size of a small smartphone and full Android but still eink. It's basically perfect. I can browse Hexbear, read my newspapers, books, whatever, all super easily on a great eink screen and it's tiny. No complaints, and it's like $200.
BOOX Palma
Android
Ouch, wish that wasn't the case. I'd prefer e-readers with close-to-mainline-Linux and Libre stacks, for future maintainability. Android stock is fine, but good mainline support almost always means better long-term Android support too.
I just checked a video review, didn't realize refresh rates had gotten that fast. Scrolling used to be a nightmare.
They even have different e-ink refresh rate modes. If you're just reading a book, it auto adjusts to very low refresh rates with high quality, because you're just turning pages. With web browsing, you can adjust to be faster at a loss of quality; hell, it's fast enough that you can even watch videos with eink if that's what you want.
BigMe has the fastest refresh rates on the market I think, some 24fps in video mode.
Book Reader runs Linux. So does ReMarkable (which is insanely overpriced, but actually nice if you can find a used one for ~ $150). The ReMarkable even includes instructions on connecting to the device via SSH and you can pretty easily run whatever you want on it. Including just making the rootfs a git repo.
never heard of this before
I have the box leaf 2 and it does exactly what I want it to - let me copy pirated ebooks from my desktop via syncthing, and it doesn't do anything I didn't ask it to