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Originally Posted by HarryT
What would you recommend?
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short answer: XO-4 Touch (it's hard to acquire though)
long answer:
Look for a tablet or laptop on the used market that has a broken screen, and order a
pixel qi diy kit to replace it, then install a FOSS OS on it.
There are some tablets and laptops on the market that include a
pixel qi screen from the factory, but they all involve a licensed installation of the worlds poorest quality OS, so I don't recommend them.
Exceptionally, the X0-1 has a dual-mode screen and comes with a decent OS (Fedora) -- these are sold on eBay. The X0-4 Touch is the latest model, but it's not generally available to the general public now that the one-laptop-per-child program has discontinued the "give one get one" option. There are ways though, if you volunteer for an OLPC-based project, or know someone who does.
The XO Tablet may be a good option (Anyone can buy one for ~$130). I would be a bit cautious though, because it has Android. I cannot generally recommend it ATM, because the Android ecosystem has copious binary blobs and Android culture supports a kind of jailed system with apps that cannot be removed. I don't know the particulars of the XO Tablet though.. it
could be all FOSS, and rooted from the factory for all I know. Something to investigate..
There is also Yotaphone, but probably too small for PDFs, and I'm almost certain it's a jailed Android that depends on binary blobs.