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I still have the kobo mini, the pinnacle of ereaders IMO, perfect size for reading fiction. I haven't seen anything more compelling since kobo discontinued it.

That being said I wonder if the color eink display would be useful for displays instead of LCD.

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I'm with you on that, I got mine back in 2013(?) on sale for $30 CAD. still works, but battery is a bit weak. They were also neat cause you could telnet into the modified debian os to add you own homebrew apps

I didn't know you could do that! I've only been using it as intended.

On most (all?) kobos, you can also upgrade the storage to whatever you want because it’s a microsd card slotted into the board. Just copy the system partition over to the new sd, expand, done. Mind you, I never needed to do it because 4 or 8GB is a ton of ebooks. I’ll probably never need that much space anyway. But if you’re reading larger files, might be handy.

> because 4 or 8GB is a ton of ebooks

But if they go colour, how many comics is it?

Although 6" is too little for comics unless someone makes the effort to make every panel a separate screen on the ebook...

Yes that’s a different story. I was talking about my own use case which is EPUBs that are typically a couple MB per book.

> On most (all?) kobos, you can also upgrade the storage to whatever you want because it’s a microsd card slotted into the board.

Nah, that's no longer universally true. Pretty sure the Sage and Elipsa use soldered eMMC storage instead of micro SD.

That’s a bummer, it was a neat feature.

It was, especially since I consider that a hindrance to using the newer devices for 10-years, which the older ones can happily do with a properly-imaged new SD card. Even though I love my Sage, it makes me consider whether I should grab a Libra 2 if I ever see it on the cheap, just to have a comparable device that still has the memory on a SD card.

The Kobo's that just launched claim they will have better repair-ability through a partnership with iFixIt, so maybe we'll see how that impacts the ability to change the storage.

My old Kobo was sold with a 1GB partition on a 2GB card, fastest upgrade ever!

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