[DMcCunney]

Answering a couple of my own earlier questions:

Someone had mentioned a modified version of CoolReader that could be set to display on the eInk screen. That was MR user sunlifeng, but his build seems specific to the EE. (It refuses to install on the PE.)

MR user Javese contributed a build of FBReaderJ that can display on the eInk screen of the PE, incorporating the EdgeFB class from MR user vldmir. That's lovely, since I prefer FBReader and use it elsewhere.

Alas, it requires a rooted device, to be able to write to the frame buffer, and z4root fails on my PE. (FBReaderEdge won't install, either, which is likely a consequence of not being on Ermine.)

I'm still at the stock 1.6 Dingo firmware level. It's possible z4root needs 2.2 Ermine to work as expected, or I need a different z4root version.

Apparently, using either eats battery. I don't care that hard, because battery life on the PE is nothing to write home about to begin with. I can take the PE fully charged, open a book on the eInk screen in Reader, close it to blank the LCD screen and read, and the battery still drains perceptibly.

eInk requires no power to retain a page once painted on screen, which accounts for good battery life, but does need it to paint a new page. I read quite quickly. Speed is dependent on material, so complex non-fiction will go more slowly, but for the average novel, I can generally read a page on the eInk side in 5 or 10 seconds, and press the button to get a new page. (My SO reads about twice as fast as I do, and reported watching power drain while trying out an eInk device for that reason.)

I'll settle for using my preferred reader and being able to read outdoors in sunlight.

All I have to do is root the PE...
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Dennis