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Originally Posted by Quoth
Certainly you can with the Boyue Likebook Mars, and likely similar Android 8.1 models. Even many Android phones and tablets don't have a filebrowser. The one pre-installed on the Mars seems fine. Actually unlike the Kobo it has poor library features, no global title search, no collections and no series. But it does have a file manager and also the Library app has a Most Recently Used page and browses by directory. There is also search and subdirectories.
You can search the storage via USB from a laptop too, though sadly it's slow MTP mode rather than mass storage.
Even a 7" 300 dpi is too small for most technical PDFs. The Mar 6.8" is too small for magazines and A4 / Letter technical documents. So you either spend €150 on a 10" LCD tablet, or €400 on a larger one, or insane money for 10" to 14" approximately eink. Some of the larger eink are ONLY really for PDFs.
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It depends entirely on your eyesight. My mom would probably struggle to read a PDF intended for letter sized paper like a journal article on a 7.8" reader like the Oynx Nova series. I can do it fine. If you can read tiny text you can do it. The DPI is high enough for it to be clear.
I don't think Amazon is going to bother with an "eWriter". It doesn't mesh super well with how they make money with devices (selling you other things) and considering how they price the Oasis for what it offers I can't see them beating Oynx or Likebook on pricing by much if any.
That said I love my Nova 2 and Oynx Note Air. If you're going to be writing a lot the 10" screen makes a big difference. It is also more enjoyable to read PDFs on the Air. Storage works in a directory structure, you can search it. They also run Android so stuff like OneDrive, Dropbox, etc. can be used to sync files on and off wirelessly. Android also means any reader app you can think of! Kobo, Amazon, Google Play Books, Libby all work. BT keyboards work although I haven't done that too much. However the pen is really only usable for writing in the built in apps since most apps don't take into account eInk. The built in notes app is pretty good and so in the PDF reader.
I would go for a Oynx Note Air if you want to write notes and read PDFs. It's not cheap but it's extremely flexible. Remarkable is cheaper but way way more limited and worse at reading.