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Originally Posted by milky30
But with cheap android tablets I'm worried about poor quality hardware, like low quality displays and sluggish performance.
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Then don't get an e-ink device. They are usually older Android version with less RAM than Android devices and more expansive anyway. The exception so far is the Viwoods AiPaper Reader with Android 16, but it only has 4 GB of RAM. Although I find it snappy enough for reading and webbrowsing now and then. Ghosting isn't any issue while simply reading in librera or koreader with the eink mode set to best quality.
I would recommend a Android tablet with matte screen like TCL NXTPAPER 11 Plus or Huawei matte paper, both come with a stylus and you can install the apps you like. Since Huawei uses Harmony OS which is based on Android 12 not all recent apps may work though. Both have a good aspect ratio for reading. Since scientific PDFs usually have rather large margin you can either adjust these margins in the reading app or use PDF reflow. With PDF reflow I can also read such a PDF on a small device like the AiPaper Reader without problems (the only problems are graphics which appear rather small of course).
Dictionaries can be included in apps like Librera or KoReader as well as an option to look up a word in Wikipedia.
And being LCD-based devices colours look much better on these screens than on any colour e-ink device.
Since you don't want the device for watching videos or playing games you really don't need a top SOC.