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Originally Posted by kacir
Have a look at Onyx Boox Midia inkphone - a new affordable 4,7 inch front-lit e-ink phone, or new PocketBook Ultra 650 with camera at the back and built-in OCR or a new PocketBook InkPad 840 - a new high resolution 8" front-lit screen.
PocketBooks are far ahead of Amazon in terms of configurability. Six years old models are much more configurable than the newest Kindle. You can install new fonts, apps, dictionaries, screensavers, you can redefine user interface, you have support for folder structure, you can format the text any way you wish ...
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The question is how many of those features really add to the reading experience? I don't need the phone functionality to read a book, and while a camera/OCR system can help create ebooks, I'd rather run it on a more powerful platform. It also doesn't seem necessary for reading.
As for the larger screen/higher resolution, that's more of an incremental improvement than innovation.