I wanna buy an ebook reader but i don’t want any amazon or other companies shit in there, just something i can connect to my pc, pass ebooks in different formats into it and read.

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      Maybe I’m jaded / cynical, but that seems like a pretty reasonable compromise. If you want to take responsibility and install your software from scratch then nothing is guaranteed. I’d take that deal.

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        It’s okay, definitely was worth it for me.

        But I still think its kinda weird to put out a 400$ device and then say: “here’s full ssh root access, but don’t use it”

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        no, it is quite fancy hardware, almost a4 paper sized, very thin and with an amazing hand writing experience and pretty good ocr.

        Its a good device, but also quite expensive