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

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

It's doable but it's not done, it's been technically feasible for years but nobody do that

And idk why

There's a market for that

Not a big one, yeah, but there's one

And battery life isn't that much of a big deal honestly

redpill me on e-reader autism

Sure, current e ink device can boast a week long autonomy