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I feel like a new generation of Android powered e-ink tablets / phones is the answer here: https://shop.boox.com/collections/eink-tablet.

Or maybe even that TCL tablet that looks kinda like e-ink, but is actually OLED: https://www.tcl.com/uk/en/tablets/tcl-nxtpaper-10s.

Constantly pushing stuff to Kindle, which is inherently extremely limited device (gotta love walled gardens!) feels like a bit too much friction to me.






Boox devices are shipped with Android 11. Yes, recently. And their customer service is not great. As much as I like their devices, I can't imagine putting $300 in them.

I hope these alternatives catch on. But until they do, I paid $100 for my kindle. The cheapest one that isn’t sold out on the boox site is $170. Nearly everything is in the $200+ range.



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