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Originally Posted by Peripathetic
Comparing the Tolino Shine 3 and Kobo Clara HD specifically, it also seems (although I haven't tried it) that the Tolino could be made to run pure Linux and Kobo software on it, while it would be much more difficult, if not downright impossible, to run Android on the Clara HD.
On the other hand, pure Linux should be faster than Android and on top of that the Clara HD has a marginally better CPU but I'm not sure if this is noticeable in actual usage.
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Given the similarity of the hardware between the Clara HD and the Shine 3 (the only really difference I can see is the SLL CPU in the Clara HD), it would not be that great a challenge getting either one to run the other's OS if you were working from the source and since Kobo owns Tolino, I suspect their developers have access to both. As for the supporting software that runs on that OS? I can't even guess as to how difficult moving those to a different OS would be.
Of course, getting an up to date Android version running on either would be more of a challenge. Looking at my Android tablet running 8.1, most of the apps I run need Android 6 as a bare minimum.
As for the effect of the SLL CPU? Looking at the Aura E2 v1 and v2 devices, it's hard to see any performance differences between the two.
As for the renderer used? On my Kobo, I can choose between RMSDK, ACCESS (builtin) or KOReader and Plato. Since I seldom read any format other the epub, KOReader's support for formats such as FB2 are not of any concern. And my opinion of most of the Android epub renderers? If the app default settings are not capable of putting text on the screen following the epub's stylesheets and inline styles, it's crap.