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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The buttons on the 350 are in a terrible location. And all the downsides I mentioned are valid compared to a current Reader. The 350 has way too many compromises to make it worthwhile.
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Most of what you've noted as compromises are not problems to me. I don't care about a hi-res screen; I'm not looking at art. I was very happy with the Clié and only stopped using it because the battery died; if I could get another device like that, I would use it.
My main purpose is "download auto-generated epubs from archiveofourown.org." The formatting is
terrible in some of them - there's fics that were imported from Google Docs with extra hard returns between each paragraph. (Those, I use Sigil to fix.) Don't care. My formatting standards are low.
I'm not reading Epub 3. Whatever the margin/line height settings are for AO3's auto-generated ebooks have been fine for me.
This is very much a "quantity over quality" situation - I want to read 30,000 to 100,000 words of fanfic a day, most days, and I am not going to spend valuable reading time doing formatting or metadata adjustments.
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I can't find any current 6" Reader with buttons in a good location. So that leaves 7" as the buttons on the Libra 2 are in a good location.
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The Pocketbook's buttons are in a fine location for me, and may be better than the Kobo ones that are only on one side. Would much rather buttons on the bottom than on one side only, which limits which hand I can use to hold the rail on the train.
But it doesn't matter, because their button ereaders won't fit in my pockets, so they're a non-starter.
(I'm not frustrated at the answers that are "this would be a good ereader for you if you totally ignored the features you care most about, especially if you cared about these other features that don't matter to you," because I assume that's good info for other people who see the thread later. But it's not useful info for me.)