I regret buying the Onyx BOOX Color 7 Gen 2
> Last last December I bought the Onyx BOOX Color 7 Gen 2. It was a neat little device and I wrote up an extensive review. I have really enjoyed my time with it. It's helped me read about one dozen books in just nine months.
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I regret buying the Onyx BOOX Color 7 Gen 2
Last last December I bought the Onyx BOOX Color 7 Gen 2. It was a neat little device and I wrote up an extensive review. I have really enjoyed my time with it. It's helped me read about one dozen books in just nine months.
Then it randomly entered a boot loop the other night, completely out-of-the-blue. And it's impossible for me to overstate this:
I did nothing to cause the device to get bricked.
The last thing I did with the device was on Tuesday the 29th of September... I read another chap
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Gardiner Bryant
@gardiner_bryant may I suggest having a look at Kobo? It's often the same eInk platform as found on multiple devices, but (say unlike the Tolino sister brand at Rakuten) the Kobo branch of ebooks runs Linux Qt and has never ended up in a bootloop(*) into our experience (me, my parents, wife).
(*: unless not enough power left in battery to boot, in which case topping it up is trivial)