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Originally Posted by organized_chaos
I guess this actually leads me to another question which I hadn’t considered yet. What is the battery life like between Android eink devices and Linux devices? The battery life on my Kobo lasts a LONG time.
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This is heavily dependent on the device battery, whether it’s BW or colour (the latter means a need to use the frontlight a lot), how much wifi & bluetooth you use, etc.
On my Boox Go 7 Colour Gen II, used only for reading, wifi off (apart from when actively connecting to download a book), frontlight around 50% because for my use it’s too dark otherwise, I’ve got around 13-15 hours of reading time.
On my Boox Go 10.3 (no frontlight) … I got mine three weeks ago, it was charged to 87%. I updated the OS twice, looked around, downloaded a couple of apps, tweaked the settings, connected it once via USB cable to computer to add some fonts (so it charged a couple of percent), and read six full novels on it until finally charging it for the first time yesterday (it was down to 23% at the time but there was a new system update and I figured I wanted to charge it).
Anyway, as for colour screens .. the only other commercially available option for e-reading is Gallery 3, and I think the only devices currently using it are a couple of ReMarkable models, which aren’t really intended for reading anything but PDFs, as I understand. It’s supposed to be better than Kaleido 3 in some ways (more colours, brighter) but has its own downsides, like slower refresh.