I wanna buy an ebook reader but i don’t want any amazon or other companies shit in there, just something i can connect to my pc, pass ebooks in different formats into it and read.

  •  greenskye   ( @greenskye@beehaw.org ) 
    1•10 months ago

    I just bought the onyx boox page and I’m not seeing much, if any bloat. It’s a premium ebook reader ($250), but I bought it to replace my aging Kindle Oasis. I use moon reader pro instead of the built in reader. Google Play worked fine straight out of the box. It has a micro SD card slot for more storage as well.

    Overall I’m very satisfied with it and it is completely comparable to Amazons premium ereaders (honestly way longer battery life than my oasis ever had).

    Time will tell on OS updates, but truthfully I don’t really care much about that. At least until my apps stop working.

    •  the16bitgamer   ( @the16bitgamer@programming.dev ) 
      2•10 months ago

      I have a Nova 3 Color and 2 like books.

      The likebooks never got OS updates, but the Nova got updates, but they were updating the default apps.

      I don’t like moonreader, as I found it to be a battery hog. KOReader is my favourite and its the default reader (or a skin of it is)

      By bloat I am referring to the Onyx store which is on my home screen and is not removable.

      With that said my Nova is my preferred eReader, especially when I kill the WiFi. 2+ week battery life FTW

      •  greenskye   ( @greenskye@beehaw.org ) 
        2•10 months ago

        That’s fair. Using moon reader makes the library and store tabs useless. I have the store ‘disabled’ but the tab remains. Moon reader doesn’t like it when I open books via the library tab (creates a duplicate) so I stopped using it. Personally I rarely need to exit the moon reader app, so the base UI really doesn’t impact me much.

        Haven’t noticed moon reader hogging the battery. I keep Wi-Fi and Bluetooth off and use a decent amount of backlight and still get a couple of weeks out of it. Which is so much better than the 2-4 days my oasis got.

        Part of the reason I love mine is that it supports TTS so I can create my own audiobooks. Currently using Google wavenet to read books to me. This is nice for car rides especially cause I read a lot of books that will never get audio book versions (translated Chinese cultural cultivation fantasy)