“ Amazon’s biggest rival in the e-reader space has formed an official partnership with iFixit to provide repair kits and guides for its latest models. The Kobo Libra Colour and Clara are designed to be opened and repaired. “
https://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-kindle-2026-3657863/
I dunno, it’s not perfect, but I tend to enjoy the experience of moonreader, librera, or other really solid apps on android better than the experience on kindles, or the others I’ve tried that aren’t android based.
That’s even on eink options; I have a boox, and a kobo that are eink, with the boox running Android, and kobo whatever they used. I tend to find less hassles on the boox, despite it being their cheapest model.
I don’t think any of them have really perfected the overall form and function, but I find the apps on android give better immersion and less hassle.
I dunno, I had a kobo many years ago, put an android launcher on there and could use it as an e-ink tablet. Don’t know if you can still do this, but it was pretty handy.
I do that too, except that Android e-inks are usually underpowered for anything except a reading software. Which would be fine with a minimal Linux, less so with a weird Java VM and a 100 subsystems that uses WebGL for rendering (Kitkat is where hw req tripled).
Android is still a bad match for e-reader usecase and hardware but whatever.
I bought a Kindle Fire back when, not really considering that it wasn’t really an ereader.
Waste of money.
I dunno, it’s not perfect, but I tend to enjoy the experience of moonreader, librera, or other really solid apps on android better than the experience on kindles, or the others I’ve tried that aren’t android based.
That’s even on eink options; I have a boox, and a kobo that are eink, with the boox running Android, and kobo whatever they used. I tend to find less hassles on the boox, despite it being their cheapest model.
I don’t think any of them have really perfected the overall form and function, but I find the apps on android give better immersion and less hassle.
The apps, yes, while the system sucks (battery).
I dunno, I had a kobo many years ago, put an android launcher on there and could use it as an e-ink tablet. Don’t know if you can still do this, but it was pretty handy.
I do that too, except that Android e-inks are usually underpowered for anything except a reading software. Which would be fine with a minimal Linux, less so with a weird Java VM and a 100 subsystems that uses WebGL for rendering (Kitkat is where hw req tripled).