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Originally Posted by pickyaxe
How can people here still recommend/buy Onyx devices after the T68?
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How? Speaking as a potential buyer:
- Most manufacturers, if they are around for long enough, produce the occasional 'lemon' product model.
- The manufacturers least likely to produce the occasional lemon, the big players like Amazon and Kobo, tend to produce readers that conflict with my 3 core requirements: (i) physical page turn buttons/sensors; (ii) directory-based navigation; & (iii) FBReader, or something very similar. I would rather have a reader that does what I want it to imperfectly, than one that does what I don't want it to perfectly.
- Of its main competitors in the field of readers-that-do-what-I-want, Pocketbook has an even worse track-record than Onyx of producing duds (and arguably hasn't produced a competitive reader since the 360). The other main competitor, Boyue, seems to have only produced a only very small number of reader models, so it's lack of a dud product is hardly telling.
- I've yet to see a comparison review claim that the T68 is unambiguously worse than the Inkpad (it's main competitor from Pocketbook).
For these reasons, I will continue to look closely at Onyx for the replacement for my i62HD, when I wear it out.