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Originally Posted by HarryT
The devices you're talking about are generic Android tablets, rather than dedicated reading devices. Many dedicated eInk readers use Android as an operating system, but are not "open" devices.
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It rather depends on whether you set the boundary at "dedicated reading devices" or 'devices designed
primarily for eReading', which the two models I mentioned definitely are. Regardless, I would hardly describe them as "generic Android tablets" (unless you meant generic Android-tablets, as opposed to generic-Android tablets). They are sold as eReaders, and listed in MR's 'eBook Reader Matrix'.
I will admit that I'd forgotten about eReaders running locked-down versions of Android. Does anybody other than B&N still do this? (They've disappeared back into the tall grass somewhat, making them more easily overlooked than they were a few years back.) Are such devices
visibly Android based, such that they'd be confused with devices running a fully-fledged version of Android?