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I still use my Pocketbook Lux 3. It must be about 10 years old now and still works beautifully (even the backlight). One battery charge usually lasts me weeks, even with heavy backlight use. They are made in Europe (Switzerland) and run some flavour of Linux. They‘re not rock-bottom bargains, but the cost of the entry-level model seems quite fair in my opinion (€107). https://pocketbook.de/
Tbh, the current ones are pretty fantastic - and I find 100€ for the B/W verso and 140€ for the colour one still "reasonably cheap".
So far they have eaten anything I gave them to read, work with calibre web (sadly only for download,not sync, but that's not PBs fault), support the German Onleihe (public library ebooks... fantastic system getting you hundred thousand of books,often for less than 20€/year or even free) and the battery is rock solid.
So,I don't really understand the point of the discussion. I am an absolute early adopter with E-readers and can't remember any cheaper offers on readers that weren't Amazon's "bait" ads to sell you kindle unlimited,etc.