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Originally Posted by Katsunami
The manufacturer would only update the operating system (bug fixes, no new functions; as you basically never see the OS), the market app, and its own reading application.
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Bolded part is what troubles me - if the market app is not updated anymore - how do I get new software? Unless you meant a specific market for reading apps and Google play for default android apps?
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Originally Posted by Istvan diVega
As long as apps can be sideloaded I don't care what kind of market it has, or if it has any kind of market access at all.
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Good point.
If sideloading is possible, the market is less relevant.
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
The really hard part is imagining that this can be done and hasn't. I know it can be done, but the software people employed by eink ereader manufacturers seem to have a hard time doing this.
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Indeed.
I don't really have any meaningful experience (having had only two devices), but what I've seen and come to understand from my Kobo makes me shiver every time I think about it.
(Apparently, the reading software re-reads the entire book/html file up to the current position whenever you turn the page! Which explains why running a book through Calibre helps - it splits it up into multiple files)