ICARUS Illumina E654BK
Does any have one? Pros and cons? I'm looking to replace my Kobo Touch which is getting increasingly laggy and the problems I'm having with it and my Mac are more or less the last straw.
To me, the pros are:
Vendor-neutral. My books come from a variety of sources, and I manage everything with Calibre.
Android. This is an advantage as it means I can start running a specific app again - basically, an offline tool for browsing my entire book catalogue. I also liked FBReader from when I used to use the Nexus.
Decent quality screen. Not as good as the Boox C67ML, but perfectly adequate for my purposes.
8Gb onboard storage. I don't have to faff around with a SD card to get everything loaded.
Page-turn buttons. Capacitive screens don't work very well for me because of my dry skin. I also tend to knock them when reading so having the buttons and being able to disable the screen will be incredibly useful.
From what I can see the main con is that the initial set-up is in German; language selection seems to come later in the process.
Anything else I should be aware of before I get it?
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