Message from @mereck
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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)
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
And I don't see those being fixed anytime soon
i think its doable imo
wouldnt mind too much
anyway i dont like LCD much because eye fatigue, sure we have blue light filters but i always prefer e-ink
also battery life is a big deal