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Screen resolution isn't a priority - I was content with 200 dpi when I had a 6" reader. Might be nice to keep the 300 dpi I'm now used to, but I'm not sure it's worth $70. I expected to miss the 5" screen more than I miss the resolution; I keep considering getting a Jetbook instead but I'm not quite willing to give up e-ink.
I hadn't even realized they were all Android based. I don't intend to add apps or connect to any stores, and I'm really not up to rooting, so OS is fairly unimportant for me. (With my Kobo mini, I had to turn on the wifi and create an account to authorize it at first; I did that, turned off the wifi, and haven't used the sync function since I acquired it a few years ago.)
Argh, lower battery life for Android? Why? Does that change if you only read books only it, never use apps or wifi?
I don't want a new Kobo; the navigation system is horrible. I've been tolerating it because it was the only 5" reader I could find when I bought it. It annoys me to no end that it doesn't have "jump to page" options, neither in the library listings nor inside books; there's a slider bar and it's impossible to go to a specific page. (Almost understandable inside the books; ridiculous in the library, where I often have to keep clicking past the first several pages to find the next one in the series.)
Don't want a Kindle because my entire library is epubs, and while Calibre can convert them, that's a whole lot of effort.
I'll be sideloading ebooks rather than downloading them, because I'm not dealing with DRM, and Smashwords doesn't have an app (eep is that really the last non-DRM ebook store that's not tied to a specific publisher?).
If either Boox or InkBook reads with "an app" instead of ebooks being the main, default function, that's a strong mark against it.
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