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Originally Posted by Hotaru
If companies can make budget book readers, I don't see why they necessarily shouldn't make a budget manga reader though. With its own manga store, it might be able to find a market niche (perhaps). Obviously big companies won't do it because it would undercut their own premium readers.
I just find it infuriating that when all I want is the same hardware I bought new for $100 in 2016, the price today hasn't come down at all and has in some cases actually gone up. Instead of lowering the price they just add more mostly useless features (lights, waterproof, storage space for more books than you could ever possibly read even if you spent every day reading for the rest of your life, etc).
I'll try and get another Glo HD second hand.
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If you can wait for a sale, the Clara HD has dropped to $100 on several occasions.
I've actually been able to get the latest 8GB and 32GB Paperwhite direct from Amazon for $72 and $96 respectively during one of their sales (Mother's Day discount plus 20% cashback offer for Prime cardholders). Of course, this was back when the PW4 was still jailbreakable and one could run KOReader for epub and cbz support.
I believe top storage on ereaders is just 32GB. For manga, that's very easy to fill and it certainly won't take a lifetime to read. It won't even take a year.