I replaced my Kindle (2nd gen, 2009 vintage) with a Boox Go 7 (non color), can flip pages with the two side buttons, it’s very nice hardware and the software doesn’t get in the way.

Amazon doesn’t care about my super old kindle so I decided to also not care and just moved my collection of purchased books over to the Boox (using Calibre).

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BobaFloutist 3 days ago | parent [-]

I have a(n admittedly fairly old) Boox and I like it in concept, it's great that I can install multiple e-reader apps and read a book in any format with any DRM, but the battery life and performance seem a lot weaker than the early-generation do-one-thing Kindles.

Which sucks, because the battery life and performance were the huge selling point for e-readers not just being shitty tablets.

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schmiddim 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Mine is not comparable with the Early Kindles but it comes close to the Oasis with the tiny Battery. I have to charge it every 1 - 2 Weeks. Wifi is disabled, Bluetooth turned on. I only use the Koreader App, sometimes Wikipedia. Powersafe triggers after 24h of inactivity what really rarely happens because I read every evening.

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loloquwowndueo 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Mine lasts for weeks! I disabled wifi (only on when I need to transfer some books and keep the backlight at a not super high level but am not otherwise careful in how I use the thing or try to preserve battery.

	▲	BobaFloutist 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe mine's just an older version with worse battery then!