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Old 02-22-2022, 04:29 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by mitseas View Post
I will take a deep dive on all of the above. Thanks on your remarks, how are those two contenders on a battery life perspective? Since beefier CPU will take it's toll. I mostly like Linux because it is what I use mainly on all my machines. If I can install applications on top of it then a huge possibility for command line utilities opens up.
I fear that the Android versions may be limited somewhat in what you can/can't do with the OS and as far as applications go, but I've never used one from an eReader company. (Like all my phones should be supported by Lineage OS, you get what I really want)



Colour is not important at all, size is though. I don't want it to be as big as my Dell XPS 13 laptop so I am looking for something either 8" or 10". If I wanted an LCD/OLED screen I might as well as fire up the laptop. To be a little more specific what I wanted is to be able to view a PDF page even shrunk but at least visible, or turn it in landscape mode and view half a page at each given time.

Can I post a link of a pdf that I was reading that may be indicative of the ones I am mostly interested in? So that someone with an eReader that meets my criteria may be able to post a picture or two?
Thanks again for your time.
Battery life with my Boox devices is comparable IME, MyDeepGuide has battery life videos for some of these devices on YouTube.

With Android and Termux it's really easy to get a working Linux chroot (well proot if you don't have root) with programs like Vim, Emacs, gcc, etc. It's possible with a bit of work to even get an X11 server running if you really want. There's some limitations there like there is no way to access an SD card but honestly it's easier than trying to cross compile random programs onto a Kobo. If you have an Android phone grab it off F-droid (a repo of FOSS Android Apps) and see if you like it.

The Boox and Boyue devices let you sideload APKs and getting Google Play Store is pretty easy.

It's also possible to root the Boox devices if you want. I haven't bothered as it does everything I want without it.
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