[ShadowAUS]

Hi all, I'm looking at buying my partner an e-reader for Christmas/late January birthday and have just started doing some research. For context she is currently using my Kobo Touch 2 syncing to our Calibre container on our home server.

It will be mostly for epub reading, but she also enjoys manga and comics and would like to be able to read them on the same device as her books. (She currently reads manga/comics on her phone, so a 7-8" device is the perfect upgrade without getting bulky.)

She doesn't care about colour, and would prefer an Android based device as she uses android based reading apps a lot - which also means we don't need expandable storage as outside of those android apps all of our books/comics etc are on our server and we just delete the local copies from our devices as we finish them and redownload them if we want them in the future.

Note taking ability is a plus, but we both have iPad Pro's with Pencils for work/class note taking/design drawing necessities so it's mostly not going to be a function that gets used much.

From my brief research it seems like I only have two main options, the P78 Pro and the Nova Air2. Would love to hear some alternatives if anyone has any, and would love to hear opinions on which of the above would suit our use case more and why we might choose one over the other as they both seem pretty similar on first glance. There's about $100 difference here in Australia, with the P78 Pro being cheaper. Also would love to know if there's any announcements or rumours of new devices that may be released in the next few months that may suit our use cases, as I don't need to purchase it for a while yet.

Thanks for any help!