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Unfortunately doesn't Onyx use Android? Only an advantage if you need ereader apps for loans, libraries and subscriptions.
My premium metal Oasis was in actual use inferior to the Libra and Libra 2. My premium reMarkable has seriously inferior usability to the Elipsa. Very often with gadgets "premium" is marketing and some brushed aluminium that scratches easily and is unpleasant to hold. Many people have ereaders or phones in totally enclosing cases with flaps. Last edited by Quoth; 07-06-2023 at 02:12 PM. |
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07-06-2023, 02:23 PM | #64 |
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Regardless of cost, for a 7 inch screen you'd be hard-pressed to do better than the Kobo Libra 2.
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Perhaps you should take the time to read on how the spare blocks are treated in solid state drives. Gentle hint: they are not subtracted from the capacity the drive shows nor do they show as non-partitioned space. Formatting the entire space exposed by the on board controller space does not affect the spare blocks. The only time a spare block becomes visible is when it is swapped for a failed block by the on-board controller. As for ext4 being a write-intensive file system? Another of your "interesting" claims. Yes, ext4 does journaling but then so do most modern file systems. And yes, there are log files being written. But most of the writes are relatively small blocks so contribute little to the disk wear. Looking at a Kobo Clara 2e µSD card, I see 3 partitions. The system partition and the recovery partition are ext4 and show as 300 and 384MiB respectively. The FAT32 partition clocks in at 14,469MiB (~14GiB). Now that partition is where most of the wear would be seen since the databases stored in that partition are written to very often. There is also a 16MB unpartitioned space which is most noted for being where the serial number is stored though it also has the boot information and other bits and bobs. There is no exFAT partition used on a Kobo ereader though I have seen people reformat the exposed partition as ext4 on a couple of occasions. I am rather surprised by some of the total crap you have been posting. Have you ever taken the time to actually read up on the technology you are so enthusiastically dumping on? Perhaps a quick search on bad block management would be helpful. I did note multiple manufacturers claim that 5-7% of the blocks are reserved for bad block replacement not 2 blocks per 1000GB. 2 blocks of either 256KiB or 512KiB (commonest block sizes on a newer SD card) would be 512K or 1MB in 1000GB in contrast to 50-70GiB which is would be common. Take the time to check on erase blocks in flash storage for more information. |
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To me, these benefits are worth the price difference. But I wouldn't call any of these devices premium - they work, but nothing more. |
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The Kindles I've used - K2, PW3, Voyage - have all felt sturdier and better built. Does that mean that I prefer Kindles? No. I agree that the software is important, but that wasn't the point that was being addressed. There's no reader that has felt "premium" to me. Either in software, hardware or a combination of both. Luckily, that isn't a priority for me. I just want everything to work and reading to be pleasurable. |
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What's wrong with Android? I use the reading programs I like the most (AlReaderX and KOReader), fully adapted to e-ink, and a lot of utilities that make the reading process much easier for me: dictionaries, translators, book and file organisers, cloud storage and synchronisation, Wikipedia... I don't know what's wrong with using those reading programs and applications. Onyx Boox has good and very varied devices. When I use my Onyx Boox devices, I certainly don't notice a difference in quality or reading satisfaction compared to my Kobo, Kindle or PocketBook devices. They are different e-readers, with their own unique characteristics, and if you compare them with each other you will always find shortcomings in all of them. To me this battle between Android and Linux seems much more theoretical than practical. There are devices on both operating systems that are very good and very bad.
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