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Originally Posted by meeera
Are you able to list what's essential and what's optional in your criteria? Needing nav buttons and AAA batteries and SD card would narrow your choices down very substantially.
I don't understand the need to avoid things like wifi capability, when you can just turn it off. When you have very niche requests like that, sometimes it's helpful to explain what you're trying to achieve.
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AA or AAA batteries means forget getting a Reader that's any good as there was only one that took such batteries and it wasn't all that good. Plus, it's no longer made.
All Readers these days are Linux or Android. No other choices exist.
All decent Readers have a touch screen.
All decent Readers have Wifi, but once registered, you can keep WiFi off.
To read PDF, you need a large screen Reader. The Pocketbooks being mentioned are too small for PDF. You need at least a 7.8" screen and may even want a 10.3" screen for your PDF.
With Calibre, you can convert Mobi to ePub so you don't need to handle Mobi.
Now, I recommend
The Kobo Forma with an 8" screen or
The Pocketbook Inkpad X with a 10.3"screen. They both can bookmark, most support side loading, both are not cluttered (IMHO), both have apps for just reading, both support ePub, both have page turn buttons, and both have front lights.