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looking for a 7/8 inch ebook reader (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Luffy879@lemmy.ml to c/ereader_community@lemmy.ml

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Hello, I am looking for a 7 or 8 inch e reader which supports KOreader. I dont have to big expectations, it should just have a Touchscreen and preferably wifi so I can wirelessly transfer books to it. I currently use an old kobo aura, and ereaders based on Linux are pretty interesting to me, but i also dont really care if the device runs Android. Also, I would like to stay und er my budget if 250€

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[–] huginn@feddit.it 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

TIL KOReader.

I think staying with Kobo is a solid idea but it depends on if you've liked your device or not.

I like my 5 year old Kobo Libra H2O - it looks like the new color Kobo Libra is a pretty big upgrade to that that looks like it's in your budget.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

KOReader supports a decent number of devices.

It might be how I read books on my android if the library interface wasn't awful.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm a professional android dev so I popped over to their open source project to see if there was any UI changes I could make to help out the cause.

... The whole fucking project is lua.

So I can't help them: they appear irredeemable tbh.

They wanted to make one UI for all platforms. That will always cause issues.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The actual reader is better than a lot. I got convinced to try librera in another discussion about readers, and the library is better (with tags and filters instead of just a filesystem), but if you read too fast it chokes and can't load pages (and this is just text). I get that an ereader might not have amazing specs, but it's not something I've run into with any other app except ones streaming from the actual internet.

But yeah, I have too many books. I need to be able to search and filter to find what I need.

[–] exu@feditown.com 1 points 2 months ago

It's the best of a bunch of bad options for cross-device reading unfortunately.

I'm hopeful for a native app using Kavita, the main dev has said he might make one when the server is stable.

[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Des, the libra is exactly what I was looking at too.