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Originally Posted by Zyzto
I found the inkBOOK Lumos for 99$ on amazon, a android e-ink carta with comfort light tho it has bad reviews on goodereader. so anyone here tried it?
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One of my co-workers picked one up as a backup for his Kobo Clara HD and Kindle Paperwhite but he stopped trying to use it after a couple of weeks. The firmware was flakey, the 600x800 167 PPI screen was very noticeably poorer than the Clara HD's 1072x1448 300 PPI screen though visually little different from the Paperwhite's 758x1024 screen. One of the reasons for his purchase was that he was interested in the mobi support as backup for his Paperwhite. Sadly, it turned out to little better than Kobo's mobi support useful only for older non-DRMed ebooks.
All too often when he used the page turn buttons, his finger was too high or low on the buttons and the page flipped in the wrong direction. The final straw for him was the Android app support. The Inkbook store had a very poor selection of apps and attempting to sideload APKs ran into issues including lack of support for the old Android version (4.2 something AFAIR). The builtin in reading app did make him feel happy about his Kobo and Kindle devices since they did not make a habit of crashing multiple times in a book.
On the positive side, it did have an external uSD card slot to expand it's internal 4GB storage and a 2000mAH battery. On the negative side, he attempted to use Amazon's Kindle app and found installing the Kindle app from the Inkbook app store was easy enough but it was an exercise in frustration once installed. It took multiple tries just to sign in and he never did manage to read a book with it.