Because I'm not gonna go back to manually adding shit like some fucking caveman

I don't run into low rez scans on tachiyomi enough for that to be a concern

Catching up on e ink being expensive, even if the patent was lost I don't think there would be much competition either

The market just isn't that big and it's getting smaller by the day with all the people using tablets (which are both cheaper and doing a lot more)

Only ~~faggets~~ people reading a lot or actually caring about having a 'high quality' reading experience go for e ink nowadays

hey fuck you

i like my kindle a lot buddy

That's fine m8

I have an "open source" one

elaborate

Can't remember its name

Oh right

Touch Lux

like, open source from the ground up? or custom firmware or something

I *think* it's custom whatever using a shit ton of open source

But take it with a pinch of salt

i bought a kindle 4/5 NT used

its pretty good

like my physical buttons

the point with it is you can customize it very easily (custom apps & shit) and it doesn't really care about locking you into proprietary format

Also physical buttons

(but also touch screen at the same time)

And kinda cheap, I think I got mine around 80 euromarks

the fact that i can't read epub is annoying but i just convert to epub or azw or whatever the new format is
i got mine for like £20 or something

The main problem is... well it's a hassle to read manga and such

yeah, i read oyasumi punpun on my k4 for some reason

I mainly read manga because I'm a *weeb*

also read junji ito's uzumaki

Sure, whenever I read a *real book*, I like to read it on it

it was eh

But for everything else, it's "meh" at best

Controls are unresponsive, zooming in is a royal PITA, and the DPI is not enough to be comfortable for reading small characters (and that happens a lot)

In the end I bought a Fire 8" HD (replaced my Fire 7 that I bought for 30 euromarks)

I only use this one

I use comicrack, synchronize what I read with my PC

And it just works™

And as much as I'd like to go full e-ink reading for my mangos, I just can't see it happening anytime soon

Those things run on potato CPU so any kind of image transformation is gonna be sluggish

And high DPI / big screen are way too expensive for that

I can do without color, though it would be a plus

But all those problems have been there since... well the first kindle