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Re:Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book ... by tacker2000 on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @12:02PM (#47692059)
The Kindle hardware is great, but the software and ecosystem are just crap, and Amazon is making it shittier every year.

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

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Re:Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book ... by hibiscus4156 on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:25PM (#47694255)
How is the Boox Note 7 in regards to reading PDFs?
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Re:Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book ... by tacker2000 on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:11PM (#47696329)
Its quite nice, there is a so called "article mode", where you can set a zoomed portion of the PDF, and configure how it "jumps" to the next page.

See video here: https://youtu.be/vQxlGIR8LE4?t=835

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