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I recommend the Remarkable 2. In addition to serving as an e-reader, it is an excellent notebook replacement.

As a cool note about the Remarkable 2..."under that Eink screen sits a dual core 1.2GHz ARM CPU, with 1GB of RAM, running Linux... and... you can SSH into it by default!!!" [1].

[1] https://github.com/danielebruneo/remarkable2-hacks

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Downside: It's about 4x the price of a mid-line Kindle, and closer to 7x the cheap editions.

upside: it can do more (you can write on it) and the company enables ssh access into your device without having to jailbreak etc.

Yes, the company could be more open, but I feel like the remarkable is my device a lot more than I do with the kindle.

I have a Remarkable 2 (and love it), but one downside is that it only takes DRM-free books for it's e-reader. I wish the company would partner with some publishers so that I could buy books to read on the device.

At least we have Standard Ebooks[1] in the meantime!

[1] https://standardebooks.org/

Perhaps KOReader will solve your issue: https://github.com/koreader/koreader

Also, a while ago, I built a script to download all epub files from StandardEbooks. Adapt to your pleasure.

https://pastebin.com/4hQm1Nzh

Ideally you’d pull down SE books as you read them; mostly because we maintain the books regularly and you’ll be missing out on those improvements when you finally get around to reading the later 90% of the corpus.

This was my one-liner adapted from some HN comment iirc:

    curl -s https://standardebooks.org/opds/all | grep -oE "/(.*).epub"  | cut -d '"' -f1 | grep -v "kepub" | sed '/^$/d' | sed -e"s/^/https:\/\/standardebooks.org/"|wget --no-clobber -i -

I have it set as a @weekly cronjob, works well.

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