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Originally Posted by downeaster59
If you read carefully, you'll see that the "two months battery life advertised by the main players" is based on a half hour reading per day with WiFi off. That comes out to about 30 hours of reading, provided you aren't using WiFi very much. I have a Boyue T62+ with the Onyx Boox C67ML (Carta) firmware running on it. After eight days of use (reading 1-2 hours per day with WiFi mostly off) my battery is down to about 50%. That's close, though perhaps not quite there.
As for apps, most reading apps were not designed for eInk, as you may know. There is a version of AlReader somewhere on Mobileread that is tweaked for eInk. That works well. Moon Reader works well on eInk, especially if you use the Outdoor theme. The Kindle app works on most eInk devices, but on some, the page turns may look a bit smudgy. Most eInk devices have their native reader apps. I happen to like the Onyx Neo Reader for ePubs. The Adobe reader on Boyue devices also works well.
I wouldn't try most games, and certainly no video. But games like sudoku or crosswords should work fine. As long as you keep the focus on reading, and on apps that are largely focused on reading, you should be fine.
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Thank you for the nice contribution. So you rooted the device? I do not want to go through this procedure and risk to brick my device, and I am afraid that if I buy the carta energy reader pro they will deliver me a pearl screen as happened to somebody in the forum.
I am a strong proponent of android, I am even writing some software.
I guess we should make youtube video of standalone apps running on EINK, so to make the developers more aware of this market. Still I have some issue related to the quality of the Dutch-Eng dictionaries and this is the point... if I do not use wifi with good inbuilted dictionaries android battery shines! I know really well how android is cool as the main battery problems are screen,wifi and apps design. While the screen is not a problem, and the apps are always more efficient (even considering the smart way onDestroyed() is called in the android cycle for apps in background) the main issue remains imo the wifi.
let's focus on good dictionaries and Android will be number one. Just I am thinking if the ABVY dictionary are good enough, because I would rather pay for licensed dictionaries than not affordable source ones, if the software allow to use them.
So what I think is essential in this thread related to the battery issue is:
How Mantano, Moon+reader, Aldiko, ALreader, Kindle manage GOOD bidirectional and Oxford monolingual dictionaries (that appear with a long click on the word with a pop up)?