Message from @mereck
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If it had I think there would have been some price fluctuations
I really want an android E-ink with a big screen, but anything with a decent size is $$$$
I don't want it for books
I prefer physical
I want it for mango
Yeah, gotta have a big screen to see it all at once
I've read plenty of mango on my phone, and I don't want to get a dedicated reader just to have a screen that's 1" bigger, it's a waste
But I also can't justify $500 for a 10 inch e reader just for Chinese newspaper comics
Yeah tachiyomi is exclusively what I use for mango
That's why I have a requirement of an *android* e-ink
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
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