I've just bought myself a generic e-reader.
It came from ebay for around a hundred bucks. If you search on ebay for 'ereader' you will see that various retailers are selling what looks to be basically the same device, sometimes branded, sometimes not.
This example was unbranded and came nicely packed in a decent box with some shock absorbing packaging around it.
My reason for buying it was simple - to replace the dogfood tablet .
There are a lot of interesting nineteenth century traveller's accounts out there not to mention that a lot of golden age mystery novels are becoming public domain and available via Gutenberg, and while I have a kindle, and an iPad, I was finding that I needed a second simple e-reader for the public domain epubs.
The model I chose is fairly simple. No wifi or anything like that, you simply plug it in to a USB port on your computer and it presents as a USB file system
and you simply copy files to it.
It has quite a nice colour e-ink screen, but it's not a touch screen meaning that navigation is via a set of clicky buttons on one side of the device.
and, while I havn't investigated its capabilities, it claims to be able to play mp3 files, meaning that I could potentially use it to listen to downloaded podcasts.
No bluetooth of course, but there's a headphone jack for a pair of old school wired earbuds.
The model I bought came with 16GB of storage and there is an option to add additional storage via a tf card.
Basically, the device is not much more than a 2026 re-imagining of my long gone Interead Cool-er.
As always with such devices, the real test will be how much I use it and how well it stands up to use. I'll provide an update in six months or so on how it's going
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