Let me point out a few
factual errors in cybmole's post.
As HarryT has pointed out, a number of "dedicated e-readers are designed to"
not "insulate you from actual files , folders... ". I would add two more manufacturers to the list: Hanvon and Boyue. The Boyue T62 is sold in Europe under the brands Icarus and Energy Sistem.
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Originally Posted by cybmole
4. the closest you can get is as I outlined in a now deleted post: don't get an e-reader, get a tablet instead and install software like ES file explorer ( android) or the windows equivalent ( windows tablets) or the apple equivalent if they have one. Only tablets, not e-readers, allow you to install apps that give you that windows-like nitty gritty file view and file structure control, without hacking/rooting etc.
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This is in fact incorrect. AFAIK, most (all?) implementations of Android (unsurpringly) come with a file manager. Having the manuals for the Boyue T62 and Onyx C67 in front of me, I can say categorically that this is the case for these models. It would be a pretty unintelligent manufacturer who built an Android eReader, or any Android device, but did not include some mechanism to find files stored on it. You could probably find an exception if you tried really hard, but they'd be very few and very short-lived.
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5. there are many tablet reader apps, some free, some premium but whatever one you choose will, as well as opening your file for you to read it, place it on some kind of virtual shelf or in some kind of list ( as that's what most users want, according to app designer's research).
but still, you can resolutely ignore that and just read. you can even configure a tablet + an app so that open with takes you straight into the book, and maybe also so that "close" takes you back to file explorer.. at the expense of less easy access to bookmarks, notes, annotations... but your choice.
some of those apps import a copy of the book into their own database some work with the copy that already exists on the tablet. All, AFAIK, do some mandated categorising/ indexing /tagging, using metadata from the book file and/or from the filename
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(i) Any Android eReader will come with one (or more) eReader apps. (ii) I have never seen a directory-based eReader place any book on "some kind of virtual shelf or in some kind of list" other than the eReader OS itself placing it on a 'most-recently-read' list accessible directly from the OS (something that Windows also does). (iii) I have seen no evidence that "easy access to bookmarks, notes, annotations..." is prevented by opening books through the file manager. (iv) I have used FBReader on Windows, Pocketbook and Onyx, and Moonreader and Adobe on Onyx (three of the more widely used eReader apps) and have not experienced any of the behaviour mentioned in cybmole's final paragraph on point 5. I cannot categorically state that it never happens, but can state that it is nothing like pervasive.
I would note that while cybmole made a big deal about "evidence, cross references, please", they never ground their long list of claims to
specific tablets/Android-eReaders or
specific eReading apps.
The basis for these statements are (i) usage of Pocketbook and Onyx (pre-Android) directory-based eReaders and (ii) perusal of the manuals for the Boyue T62(+) and Onyx C67.