[Michal Jancik]

Personally, I have nothing against Kindle from Amazon, even though I usually jailbreak the device.

However, Pocketbook has a few shortcomings for me :

1) The Pocketbook uses the same hardware for the base of the $300 readers as it does for the $99 readers. As in the case of the prehistoric Alwinner B288 CPU, which has significant limitations in the Kernel version.
As in the case of the Inkpad 4, which has the same hardware as the significantly cheaper Touch HD book readers.

2) Everything is horibly optimized for the fact that it is the year 2024, I see basically no progress.
Why pay for a Pocketbook when the overwhelming majority of users immediately install Koreader,because by default PBreader lacks basic settings such as font weight, text alignment, I don't know how the last dictionaries are, but French is pretty poor..

3) Even though the new models have an E-INK-1200 screen, many users complain about faded contrast and overall sharpness of fonts.

All in all, if it wasn't possible to install Koreader on a Pocketbook, I don't think many users would buy it, because the default PB applications are appallingly slow, like using notes, which are completely unusable, at least in my case. Inaccurate, slow, sometimes the app crashes completely.

The file explorer offers a lot of settings and refinements, but I personally don't like the way it is displayed.
I think it is made for scrolling (which is not the wisest choice with E-INK, the font choice in PBreader is also scroll ) and the ratio of book covers is such that part of the cover is always missing, at the top or bottom.
I prefer a GRID style display as done by competing manufacturers.