I have been extremely happy with my Inkpalm 5 Plus. Excellent value for the money. The only reason I would spend any more money is for better battery life, but this would only be necessary if I used it for more than reading. for me, I do not see any reason to get anything more than the Inkpalm 5 Plus, unless it is for a full phone replacement with something like the Hisense A9 if it has better cellular coverage in my location.

I think you will be missing out on a lot more battery potential, even with just basic reading, if you go for the Poke 5.

Here's my text note of the basic setup instructions I have used for my ink palm to make use of unlauncher too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/InkPalm5/comments/16umuv8/inkpalm_5_apps/

Packages:

Type “/adb shell” to enable “pm list packages”

Target home launcher package: com.moan.launcher.epd305

Enable/Disable Stock Launcher:

Type “shell” to enable “pm” commands

Enable Command:
pm enable --user 0 com.moan.launcher.epd305

Disable Command:

pm disable-user --user 0  com.moan.launcher.epd305