Building a full function browser is a huge project that can really only be done by a big organization. And it's mostly for the benefit of advertisers and other hucksters, so not a satisfying thing to work on for purely charitable reasons. Basically the web sucks. We'd be better off with a privacy protecting fragment that was designed for end users rather than for upstream. See Rfc 8890 for more.
Tech has advanced technically (for lack of a better word) but yeah, it's being used against us more than to our benefit a lot of the time.
It's a good positive step but there's still a way to go. Headline makes it sound different.
What size boox did you get for $300? If it's 13.3" that is pretty interesting despite it being Android. The current one is around $800. I think I'm ok with a normal backlit screen in the right format.
Someone in another thread suggested the pillow guy. That would have been epic.
The Hacker News crowd likes the reMARKable but I don't see what's so great about it. Inkplate is the only one I find interesting for now, and I'd want it to be bigger.