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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The Boox Darwin is available in the Ectaco shop for $240 (or potentially lower; they have a "bid" option); the Caesar 4 is cheaper and the Poke 4 is more expensive. None of their other 6" models seem to be available in the US. (Unless I want to take my chances with ebay.)
The Hisense Hi Reader seems to be $400 and maybe only available through the GoodEReaderStore. Larger-but-narrower screen size might be okay. One of the main reasons for wanting a 6" screen is "fits in women's jacket pocket." (People who aren't familiar with the pockets issue in women's fashion will not know how to make reasonable suggestions.) But it's not clear from the reviews if there's page-turning buttons. (Maybe has only one button? Which can be set to different things for single click vs double click? But there's no list of the actual options that I could find.)
The $400 price tag (...possibly +$50 shipping?) is not as much a barrier as the fact that it doesn't seem to have any US storefront or tech support. (The Hisense A5... phone? which is an older model might work. But again: No reliable US source, no tech support.)
Things I'd like: - Show filenames and sort by date/time added
- Edit metadata (hah; I don't think anything will let me edit the visible title)
- Show list (titles, authors, filenames) excluding books marked "complete"
- Select multiple ebooks & add them to categories/move them to folders
I'm aware Calibre would let me do most of that; I'm trying to dodge having to spend extra time sorting and then upload to the device. (I want to not have to get out of bed & start up the computer in order to sort ebooks to find the one(s) I want to read next.) |
All the Hisense products have volume buttons on the right side of the phone/reader; they are also used for turning pages. On the left side they have an additional "e-ink button", which by default does a full screen refresh when pressed once and enables/disables the frontlight when double pressed. This additional button is programmable and the functions can be switched out to whatever else you please.
I would rather buy Hisense products from Aliexpress than GoodEreader (they have a very bad reputation for a reason).
Both Hisense and Onyx Boox (Darwin) use Android. If you have an Android phone you can try out the reader functionality installing Alreader X (the default on Darwin) on it or Koreader or Moon Reader or Librera or whatever else you want.
If you go for the Darwin I'd recommend going for the latest model as they upgraded the Android and some internal specs for that one. Any of the models should be fine, but the latest is obviously more future-proof.