Kobo ereaders are great. You can install Koreader/Plato on it super easily. Even on the stock OS you can load epubs/mobis/etc. via USB.
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Just to add to this. Interestingly enough Kobo brand runs Linux so it can be pretty easily modified. Tolino brand (the European brand name for the same Rakuten produced product) runs Android and is much more awkward to install different apps on.
Agreed, I have a Libra 2 that I loaded a ton of epubs from Anna's archive.
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What do you want to jailbreak it for? Depending on, you won't need to.
Boox just run normal Android out of the box, so you may be able to do what you want with one of those, no jailbreaking or OS flashing required.
This tool lets you search for all Android e readers that fit your criteria:
Oh thank you very much!
I've had good luck with Pocketbook. They all run on a busy box kennel and can be pretty easily flashed. Since it's just running Linux, you can also just load in alternative interfaces as apps that just run on the existing kernel
That's interesting, I saw they were pretty inexpensive too, thanks
Yeah, definitely one of the more hackable "just a reader" type devices. They tend to have most of the features you expect from higher end devices, just on a more stripped down platform.
Really good bang for your buck, and being able to just throw any format at it and have it work is nice.