[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by The Old Man

To be honest, Linux scares me. I went to the Mint site and and thought about drivers for my printer, monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. I have an old Windows 10 desktop so I suppose I could try it on that

I see there is no Calibre app for Android

Remember that your original requirements were "Using Sheets, surfing the Internet, email." Don't try to find a unicorn for all of your edge cases. Unless Calibre is a hard requirement for you, keep the old Win 10 desktop around as an interim solution, maybe just for running Calibre, until you can find some other solution. Chromebooks have pretty small internal hard drives, too, so even if you managed to install Linux on it and get Calibre running, you might run into disk space limitations with your library.

Originally Posted by Dazrin

I think that is old information, all Chromebooks are supposed to have at least 10 years of updates: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/.../6220366?hl=en

Even (some) older ones were given that feature but you may need to opt into it.

Mmm, perhaps Google changed their tune after some very public backlash from school administrators that went all-in on Chromebooks for education and found their entire fleet of chromebooks reduced to paperweights after five years.