Of course I dream of something with feature parity with the US and Eastern alternatives, but I am not interested in color or touch. Mostly care about format support and rendering.
PocketBook is from EU. I had the cheapest one and it worked great.
I’ve had a Tolino for years and was always quite happy. It’s just a rebranded Kobo though, running their own software (which is an adapted android).
What model are you on right now and can you sideload?
I use an older Tolino Epos.
What do you mean by “sideload”? Just the books? You can just copy book files to the reader via USB easily. You can also upload books you bought anywhere to the Tolino cloud system, so that’s all open. Apps or the system? Dunno, tbh. Never looked into that.
prosereader. get it at fdroid.
Maybe I should have specified that I am asking about hardware.
ahh…remarkable.com norwegian e-ink tablets. a bit expensive, but great.
Look into Kobo readers. We love ours.
I bought one for under a 100€ almost ten years ago. It still works great except a couple times when the screen froze and I had to wait a couple minutes but I’ve dropped it so many times it’s probably my fault honestly.
Really easy to add books with calibre too so you don’t even have to use their only store. I really like it.
I don’t read ebooks but my wife does and she’s on her second kobo, the first one worked for many years and she just upgraded for a few new features and new battery. Also happy with the second one.
But I don’t think they are European, are they?
Kobo is not EU-based, am I right?
True, but it’s not an American piece of shit like the Kindle.
If you don’t care about the price Remarkable Pro move could be worth considering. Comes with a pen and let’s you doodle and take notes, colour screen, and the usual ebook stuff. But you can for sure find way cheaper options out there if all you want to do is to read books.
