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Originally Posted by marp68
Biblio app is the only option, so readers that support this seems to be the future.
Will check the Boox GO 6 out. Does it have "nightmode", that is, can you invert the screen? I installed this mod on my Kobo. Really great when you want less light from the screen.
Any other differences? Advantages, disadvantages, things you miss, like with BOOX?
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Dark mode? I don't know if their native reader has it. I do not use it. But it does not matter anyway. If you need to read your library books in the library app, you need to check if the app has it. And if you want to read DRM free books, you can install any reading app you like. There is Koreader, which does dark mode AFAIK, AIReaderX, Librera Pro , Moonreader Pro, Pocketbook, all tgese apps have dark mode. Librera Pro shows the book description blurb, series, genre, folders, all like tbe Kobo does, lets you chiise with which reading app you want to open a book. There are lots and lots of options.
Cons? Hm. People complain about two things: Android 11 and battery run time. None of them are cons for me. There is no need to update on newer Android versions to run reading apps. They need Android 9 (Kindle) and lots of them are happy with Android as old as 4.1 or 5 (ReadEra and AIReaderX e.g.).
Regarding battery run time: I read with the lights on 75% my brightness most of the time, wifi off, and only dim it if there is zero ambient light. This equals 5% per hour. In other words I can read up to 20 hours between charges if need be. But there is no need to let it run down to zero, because there are at least 20 power sockets in my flat and it charges really fast.
There are youtube videos claiming it is slow. It isn't, once you have fine tuned the apps. If you want an incredibly fas reader, take a look at the Boox Palma. It has 6 GB RAM, some kind of screen wipe thingy, and buttons. The form factor lookex a bit weird to me, but on second thought, news papers and bibles are set in narrow columns because it makes text easier and faster to read, so I might have been wrong to dismiss it.