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I desperately want a 10-12" e-ink ebook reader. Trying to read textbooks or programming tomes on a standard size Kindle is too painful. Not a whole lot of options out there though.

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How about that ?

https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-DX-Wireless-Reader-3G-Global/d...

Even better maybe, the Onyx Boox Max at 13.3 inches:

http://www.banggood.com/ONYX-BOOX-Max-13_3-Inch-1G16G-Flexib...

The Kindle DX would be nice, but I'm a little wary of buying used consumer electronics.

I looked at the Boox Max and it looks awesome, but it's a little rich for my blood right now. The regular Kindle costs $80, 10" Fire tablets are selling for $180, so nearly $800 seems like a lot.

Sony has a 13 inches model as well that goes for 599 dollars. A bit cheaper but they appear to get rid of it, so you might need to pick one soon if you are interested...

As a Kindle DX owner, I would strongly recommend against purchasing one. They do show up on Amazon Warehouse as refurbs, but even still, you're not going to get any software upgrades, display of PDFs is awful, and it wasn't particularly fast even when new.

Are there any good hackable e-ink tablets? I love the feel of my Nook but the software is terrible. I want to be able to wirelessly sync content from my own document management system without much fuss.

I periodically poke around on Alibaba looking for basic, blank e-ink readers but haven't seen much.

Sony made some models running Android that you could root, but I think their current offerings don't have that. For others (some Kindles, I think Nooks?) jailbreaks were also available, so that is something worth researching.

The nook can be rooted to run Android, I'm not sure if the newest models have the capability: http://www.babblingengineer.com/how-to/how-i-turned-my-nook-...

The Good e-Reader runs arbitrary Android apps and has a 13" display, if that meets your needs.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reade...

The Kindle DX is like a decade old now I think.

Sony has one which seems really nice (based on the 2 minutes I played with it once): https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-DPTS1/

Unfortunately it is a bit limited (only supports PDF's out of the box) in what it can do and much too expensive.

It is the best electronic device I have owned in years. Has a well defined feature set and hits that feature set spot on. Unlike most other devices, it does not try to lock you into any kind of ecosystem. Setup a webdav server, throw your pdfs on it and this device will automatically sync and pick up new pdfs you add to your server. Plus you can use a memory card.

I would've killed for this in grad school. At the time (well still, with the exclusion of this device), there weren't any eReaders with good PDF support, especially for technical documents with nontrivial typesetting.

I've been saying this since eBook readers came out. Sure the current kindle is convenient for travel, but for any serious reading, I want a larger one. It's why I still purchase larger hardcover books, and the kindle is only for convenience/travel.

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