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I have a kobo and this post encouraged me to try and install koreader, which didnt work and I thought that was because I didnt have nickel installed so I tried that and despite dragging the file to my kobo, that also wouldnt install

apparently I'm the only kobo user who doesn't know about koreader.

Kobo's are very good. I have mine configured to redirect the Kobo store to my own Calibre-Web library, and pull all my books from there. I got my SO a Kobo, and configured her with an account on the same server, set her up the same way. It's very nice.

I like my kobo with koreader installed. Really easy to install koreader on it, just drag and drop, and restart. The only thing that doesn't work is Bluetooth.

I am yet another kobosexual

Looks like Kobo is popular here too so I’m gonna go with that I think (sorry Boox, Pocketbook, and Tolino heads). Koreader’s gonna get slapped on it the second it’s in my grubby little hands. Gonna read some theory and reward myself with some disc world inbetween. My list right now is Blackshirts and reds, trans liberation, and settlers!

Thanks fellow bears

Kobo is the way to go. If you can wait for the new model, whenever the hell they decide to release it, then I'd go with that. Fuck Amazon and their walled garden bullshit.

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For an extremely minimalist and pocketable experience, the XTEINK 4 is my most fun eBook reader. Note that this device can only open epub and txt files, and the text formatting in epub doesn't work, so I have to run my epub books through calibre and convert to txt to add markdown to know what's going on with formatting.

People are recommending Boox but they've gone overly expensive lately IMO. For a multipurpose, fast android ereader I'd go with a BigMe, much more bang for your buck especially for the pencil-enabled models, or if you want an affordable huge b&w screen, my Moaan W8 is wonderful.

The BOOX Palma 2 runs Android so you can easily install Readest and Syncthing on it. It's a really nice size and has decent build quality in my opinion.

I got a free Kindle from work a while ago, jail broke it and put KOReader on it, works like a charm. I haven't set up calibre-web or anything, so I just turn on the SSH server, connect via SFTP via Termius from my phone, and copy books over.

Kobo is decent and budget friendly, i recently upgraded to pocketbook which has nicer hardware

I use an older Kobo with KoReader, but the XTeink x4 looks cool as a small option if you are down to put crosspoint on it! Boox Go 7 is nice if you want android and color!

i have a kobo that still gets use. it was their cheap option and a few years back, so it was a little slow, but the fucker still works and has an excellent battery, alongside no drm and shit. love it

My old Tolino has a jailbreak that lets me just drag and drop epubs, etc. directly onto it.
Convenience that isn't surveillance and/or a walled garden? In this economy??

yeah kobo will do you well. i had koreader on a kindle but it kept resetting itself and fucking me over. i do recommend setting the option to wake the battery with a magnetized cover off on the kobo, for some reason it drained my battery, probably from bumping around in my backpack

I like Boox. You can put Mihon, Syncthing, Du Chinese and Pleco on it so you can easily read graded readers and manhua. I have the note max in grayscale and it rules for reading text books as well.

I loved making the swich to Kobo from my kindle. I do however wish I had gone with something a little less proprietary. I still love it, I grabbed the Libra Colour and use it on occassion to read comics or manga. Libby syncs perfectly. My favorite function is instapaper though, I can read webnovels formatted perfectly on the device with zero hassle!

I have a Pocketbook and I'm quite happy with it. It supports side loading out of the box.