Right now, XTeink X4 with Crosspoint if you’re okay with no backlight. Cheap, mobile, and works well. I have a nicer, larger one, but it’s also much more expensive.

I highly recommend a second-hand kindle + anna’s archive. A week+ of battery life with reading wveryday for couple of hours.

I currently use a Boox tablet. They are more on the expensive side since they are full android tablets. I had a black and white one last me about 5-6 years, and could have lasted longer if I glued the screen back to the body of the device. I upgraded to a new model colour one and I really appreciate it for what I use it for. If you are just looking for a reader and you don’t want to take notes on it then I would recommend getting something cheaper. I just don’t have experience with anything else.

I personally got an old Android-based Chinese e-reader (Likebook, now called Meebook), but it was 100 euros so it may go out of budget. There’s also Kobo that allows to import your epubs and PDFs. Don’t know much about Kindle to be honest, but I have the impression that it’s the most restrictive platform

I’ve only had a second generation kindle, and aside from the garbage Amazon marketplace, it displayed the pdfs I put on it manually just fine.

The two big ones are Kobo and Kindle. Everyone will say kobo is better because the software is less restrictive, which is true, but the battery life is total shit compared to kindle. Yes buying into amazons ecosystem sucks, but it’s easy to never interact with it and just pirate epubs on a kindle.

For the newer eink device companies I’m not sure, could be some good ones out there.

…You had a book sack that you carried around?!

…ngl, that’s kinda metal

I think you should consider putting Librera on your phone if you don’t have a social media addiction problem. Dark mode is very comfortable. It’s not good for comics (unless you are using it on a tablet), I use Perfect Reader for those. An e-reader would probably be better but this is just so cheap, and more portable.

I would just get ReadEra Premium (life time payment, which is how it should be)

Maybe Calibre or freda but I think ReadEra has a cloud storage too