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What is a good e-reader nowadays?

I had a pocket book 2 for 15+ years but destroyed the display recently :/

Looking for a replacement now that is black&white, has a very good paper like screen, long battery life and allows me to read any .epub/.mobi without DRM or other bs restrictions.

I don’t need colour screen, don’t need audio support and no integrations with any shops or anything like that.

Kindle is ruled out, I looked at Kobo but the screen appeared low quality compared to my old pocket book.

Anything you can recommend here?

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Remarkable 2 is pretty good, though last time I used it the search feature for large pdfs was pretty janky. The BOOX eink devices are also perfectly fine; they're really just android tablets with a special build of android for eink devices. Those are the ones I've used personally.

Pocket Book still makes eink ereaders, though. Is there something wrong with their offerings if you stuck with one of their products for 15 years?

I’ll check out Box, thanks for the tip!

I’ll also take a look at the newer pocket books - I only stuck so long with my old one because it worked perfectly fine and there was no reason to get a new device.

I've now moved to an Android eReader (Boox Note 7, for example [1]).

I can just get the Ebook or PDF files and transfer them via Calibre, simple as that, and I can also download any Android app i want. There are tons of apps out there that support eInk screens.

[1] https://shop.boox.com/products/go7

This looks very promising, thanks for the tip!

I am waiting for when the patents expire and we finally get some competition, quality and lower prices.

How about PineNote?

PineNote isn't really a consumer device. PINE64 has made it abundantly clear that the PineNote is a developer playground device; they're waiting on the community to refine the software support and flesh out the ecosystem for it.

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