>eReaders are basically castrated tablets, they should be cheap right?

>Basic kindle costs 99€ 

>Second hand prices are ridiculously high

>Picrel shows up for 52€ brand new prime shipping

>No wifi, no touchscreen, no account, no globohomo, just me and my pirated epubs

Why are eReaders so expensive?

>>93191784 (OP)

Stop being poor

>>93191784 (OP)

>No wifi, no touchscreen, no account, no globohomo, just me and my pirated epubs

how you put epus in it?

niche and duopoly of store fronts for the average normiefag who cant into SideloadedMode=true

>>93191784 (OP)

The second hand prices are so high because old kindles had backdoors to load your own epubs in, the new ones don’t.



Kindles are also just expensive because of the branding. When you ask an average Joe about battery brands, they say Duracell, when you ask them about e-readers, they say kindle

have zoomers seriously not heard of usb cables?

Through usb

>Need another device to make current device usable

I'll pass

if you can post here you have another device already. so your point is moot

Woot currently has a refurbished kindle for $28. They regularly have kindle sales because they're owned by amazon - I bought like three refurbished kindle paperwhite 3s, the ones with the really nice high resolution screen, for $20. But, you'll have to wait for them to have another sale to pick that one up because they're currently sold out of that model.



There are also decent deals on refurbished ereaders on ebay - particularly nooks, but, you're gonna have to shop around. If you're willing to buy second hand there is literally a sea of used ereaders that people want to get rid of for 20-30 dollars. Some of these used older models are more advanced than their newest counterparts, having features like physical buttons and 3.5mm jacks. 



Warning - some kindles arrive unregistered and I can easily load gutenburg books on them. Others required access to wifi and being linked to my amazon account. After linking the account I just disable wifi and turn on airplane mode in the kindle. Every nook I owned required an account.

Are you talking about not being able to put epubs and needing to convert to mobi format ? I used to have a new kindle like a month ago and I just used calibri to convert all of my epubs and pdf's. Worked great.

>>93191784 (OP)

If you can't find second hand under 30 you're not looking very hard. They hold value because they last for forever. My mom's 12 year old Kindle Keyboard is just now acting like it needs a new battery.

>>93191784 (OP)

I can't speak too much about it but one of the main reasons why eink devices are so expensive (besides patent bullshit) is that when companies learn you can make a cheap, low-end device be a comfortable experience they immediately shut the project down and reassign everyone.

Why?

Because it means that there is no reason for their premium devices that get new releases twice a year to be as slow and poorly optimized as they are. If you can make a device that can do most modern tasks with only 512MB of RAM then there is no actual reason for you to buy the newest phone or tablet or whatever.

And companies do NOT want that.

Fucking sucks. All I want in an ereader is something with a responsive screen and expandable storage that isn't too pricey.
