#is there a third party ereader app that uses existing metadata?

[vashti-lives]

I have finally conceded that gremlins have eaten my kindle voyage and I do, in fact, need to replace it. It's been more than year of waiting for it to "turn up" interspersed with frantic episodes of looking. It's not happening! It's in the negaverse now.

WHY IS THE EREADER MARKET SO FUCKING TERRIBLE??? ALL I WANT IS A REASONABLY PRICED SMALL-ISH EREADER WITH DEDICATED PAGE TURN BUTTONS.

That's all! I don't need to be able to write on it! I don't need it to play videos! I don't need a big screen! I don't want to pay $200+ dollars. I just want to be able to read long fanfic on an e-ink screen again.

#ugh #the options are #buy a used kindle that is either quite old and unsupported #or way too expensive for a secondhand device #or pay like $200+ #i'll probably end up with a boox page or boox palma eventually #but jfc that's so much money and i don't *love* either design #for now... might just buy a used kindle voyage #i've been peaking in the ereader market now and then for the past four or five years #and it's just gotten worse and worse and worse #is there a third party ereader app that uses existing metadata? #it baffles me to this day that i can't sort and search my kindle library by genre #amazon has the metadata!!! #boox at least isn't restricted to one ebook ecosystem #but the boox palma and boox page are both weird shaped imo #and the boox page doesn't really have any good cover options #i've heard mixed reviews about the boox brand cover #and literally the only other cover is a weird aliexpress thing #boox palma #boox page #if you have one of these two devices what is it like reading fanfic on them? #can you download it directly from the site while on the device? #do you read via a browser or a third party reader app?