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Originally Posted by barryem
I've read in a few discussions that Moon+ is a bit clumsy on an E-ink reader. It's not designed with e-ink in mind and it's a pretty different technology with different issues. Of course I'm just repeating what I've read. I haven't tried it myself.
I read on my various Kindles and on my phone using Moon+. I prefer Moon+ on a phone because I prefer the small screen. I also like that it scrolls although the Kindle app now does that, too.
For me the ideal would be a phone with e-ink and there are such things but I've never really looked into it because of the concerns about Moon+ and e-ink screens.
The real problem with all of this is lack of choice. Ereaders are made by companies who don't care about ereaders. They care about selling books. They know they have to make good devices in order to sell books and they do. But there's very little variety.
A much nicer system would be where various hardware manufacturers who don't sell books make ereaders that work with any ebooks and compete with one another. We'd have to pay more for them but we'd each get what we wanted. I doubt that'll happen but I wish it would.
As for the Amazon ecosystem, I think it's pretty good. It could be better but there's nothing about it that bothers me. I buy my books from Amazon. I've looked into buying books from B&N and Kobo. I have Nooks and Kobo readers. But I find Amazon to be less expensive a lot of the time and have the books I want most of the time and they make them easy to buy and stand behind them when there are problems.
Barry
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The best reader software on an Android device would theoretically be bookari. It has a non-color e-ink mode option and the e-ink eReader mode probably optimizes it more than that. I rooted my Nook Glowlight plus 7.8inch eReader and put bookari on it but I noticed a strange thing or possibly bug. Part of the text would be slightly split , like geological plate tectonics, on downslope right angle. I wasn't using the latest version of bookari apk, though, so maybe it is fixed now. I did not use the latest version because unless I totally put android like lineageOS on my system the google play store does not work and that is the only way to buy the latest version otherwise the older apks are free on the internet.