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Old 07-22-2015, 12:21 AM   #6
kacir
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Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20
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Alternatively get an old Nook ST (the one with the SD-card slot) and root it.
I had NST. I bought it especially for the Android. The version of Android is very old - something like 2.2 and Nook has very little memory left to install programs to. I have installed a few e-book reading apps - such as fbreader, coolreader, a file manager and that was it. No space for anything else.
It also doesn't have the three dedicated HW buttons used on all Android device, so authors of jailbreak installed a little program that keeps a little [semi-transparent] icon on the screen that you can click any time and use the resulting menu as buttons. I found this very annoying in the books I was reading

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Also Kobo is a pretty open Linux device out-of-the-box, so you could just leave it with Linux, but it won't offer the variety of options Android offers. For example, I have a Aura HD, but I'll probably Androidify it.
There is also PocketBook that *USED* to be extremely open and had some interesting third-party programs available, but their devices peaked two generations ago, when PocketBook 360 was introduced. Last generation has firmware version 5.xy that I personally consider broken, because many features that let us configure the device or set up list of third-party programs to open book files are broken / limited.
Even at the peak of their fame, the system wasn't as open as a lousy modern Android device.
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