/lit/ - Literature

>>17183240
>I've already found multiple poor edited books on their store.
I think this is a problem universal to ebooks, not their particular store. You'll find many complaints of this in Amazon reviews as well.

>>17183257
What about the available dictionaries? Is Amazon any better.

>>17183333
I don't know, sorry. From everything I understand the Kobo models are superior on a technical level, though. If someone doesn't drop by who knows more about this you should check the archive as there have been many threads on this subject.

>>17183240
onyx boox max lumi

>>17183240
Read somewhere that the text rendering engine and hyphenation was better on Kobo. That’s pretty important.

>>17183333
I’m using the French dictionary profusely on my Kobo. It’s very useful and works well 99% of the time.

>I'm honestly interested in purchasing the very best e-reader available on the market.
Boox makes the best e-readers on the market.
They allow you to use Kindle, Kobo and other stores since they run Android and everyone is on Android.
You can load additional dictionaries to their dictionary function as well as load whatever Android dictionary app you want.
The latest generation offers split screen so you can display any combination of apps.
The pack far more powerful hardware than Kindle or Kobo so rendering pdfs is a breeze and their own reader software is far more suited for pdfs than the barebones effort on other readers.
Their flagship device is the Max Lumi. It's 13" so it's perfect for reading folios and the like.

an actual book from thrift store

>>17184483
¿

>>17183240
I'm not an e-reader expert, but my Kindle Oasis has served me well.

>>17183467
>>17184452
Don't get onyx boox. They're cheap chink shit.

>>17183333
kindle doesn't even translate latin. finding dictionaries is hit and miss.

shitty ebook quality is a publisher problem and it's widespread. artfully made ebooks are rare.

>>17183240
I like my Kindle Paperwhite because it's got a nice compact size, it's easy to put pirated ebooks onto it, and the Kindle store actually has lots of cheap quality ebooks that you would be hard pressed to find in print.

>>17184452
>>17185633
GOD DAMNIT ANON MAKE UP YOUR MIND

>>17183240
>Is it really worthy to switch to Kindle?

Not for better edited books. You can find appalling editions with typos that stem from poorly digitised books. Dictonaries are very good, though. Get 8 inch reader, it'll change your vantage point the most.

>>17185633
They're unironically the only ereader to be living in 2021. Everything else looks like it was made in 2008 with their autisitc bezels and micro usb. If literally any other company would pull their cock out of their own ass and release a good product, Boox would die.

>>17184452
Should be good. Only thing that matter is screen quality, and they all use the same tech.

>>17184452

>using stores to buy ebooks

Why would you do this?

>>17184452
I paid £380 for my Likebook Mimas. The Software/Operational System is not great, but everything else works great for me. Memory Card, Android 6.0 (you can download all the apps) internal light, both yellow and white.
I will never buy any book in my life again.

>>17186950
Forgot pic

go for a kindle

I have a paperwhite that I really like but I'm thinking of upgrading, how is the oasis?

Kobo and Kindle might as well be the same fucking thing these days. Their flagships looks identical.

Go with Kobo unless you really like feeding the Amazon beast. That said, my old Auro One just stopped working one day after about a year's use – some glitch with the screen.

Been using a Boox Poke 2 since, which I really like. Perfect pocket size, and formats everything well. I appreciate being able to load my own dictionary, too. You have to fiddle with the settings to get everything set up good (for instance, the on-screen ball is annoying until you disable it), but that takes like 20 minutes.

>>17186891
>Buy $100-300 ereader instead of buying books
>buy books on said ereader
Why would somebody do this?

>>17183240
>multiple poor edited books on their store
What books? My dad had some issues with free copies of public domain books from Amazon having a bunch of errors. He switched to getting anything in the public domain from Project Gutenberg and hasn't had issues since.

>>17187577
You ever try to move with a whole bunch of books? It's a nightmare.

I use my iPad with the kindle app. The kindle app is tied to my kindle account and lets me upload any book by either buying the book or emailing the file to my kindle email. Have hundreds of books on my kindle account.

>>17187577
You know you can have both physical books and an e-reader, right? I have read hundreds of books from Project Gutenberg on my e-reader, that's why I have it.

>>17186891
Because it's impossible to find some titles at libraries or through piracy.

>>17187577
> $100-300 ereader
We're talking about Boox here; 300" is the lower end and $900 the upper.

>>17187867
>that
hes only a kp.
leastthatswhatibeantold.
told.

>>17187577

My point was why would you spend the money on an ereader and then buy the fucking books? Just pirate them and have infinity books for $0

>>17188297
You wouldn’t be an antisemite would you anon?

>>17188297
Are there quality control issues with pirated books? You know, like how the ultra-cheap copies of public domain books in the Kindle store tend to be riddled with scanning errors.

>>17188387
There absolutely are. I'd rather just pay $8 and not have a formatting nightmare and half the 'rn's in the book displaying as 'm'

>>17188387
I did have scanning errors when I read the Stephen King books. Gage comes out as "Cage" in Pet Semetary

>>17187887
Project Gutenberg has jack shit

What about the fucking dictionaries? Can someone give me a rundown on these?

I know that Kobo dictionaries are shit, especially in German.

Is it easy to upload my own dictionaries to kindle?

What about Boox?

>>17189368
Boox allows you to load dictionaries in Stardict format.
https://medium.com/boox-content-hub/the-way-to-add-dictionaries-to-your-boox-d226b4f0316
That way they will be usable in the dictionary app as well as in the default reader (Neoreader). Dictionaries in other applications will depend on the application.

>>17189385
Here's an instance of running the Kindle app and the dictionary in split screen so you can copy paste words you want to look up.
As you can see you can also use Baidu and Bing translate and save words to a vocabulary builder.
Some apps like Kobo do not support split screen.

>>17186960
Is that as big as the Lumi?

>>17189454
Another nice thing about Boox is that you can install a variety of keyboards which comes in handy when you want to write in something other than Latin script.
The default keyboard has a text and speech recognition options.

>>17189463
10.3, as big as the Note devices.
There only other 13.3" readers are the Sony DP and the dervied Fujitsu Quaderno and Quirklogic Papyr.
The Sony and Fujitsu are specialized for pdf note taking while the Quirklogic is for collaborative working. Neither can handle epubs or other formats.
Another 13.3" device is the Dasung Paperlike which is a monitor with no standalone functionality.

The only real alternative to the Max Lumi as a reader are its predecessors. The Max 3 has Android 9 instead of the Lumi's 10, no front light and somewhat worse specs for CPU, RAM and storage. It is lighter due to the lack of front light.

Can I put my kobo library on my Kindle?

>>17183240
>>17183257
a lot of ebooks just get scanned in, so, especially if you're reading an ebook that was scanned from an old book- by a shit or lazy distributor, you get a lot of mistakes like, rn instead of m.

>>17183240
kindle paperwhite is the best bang for your buck

>>17184452
Is this e-ink though? I wouldn't want to read a ebook on a normal screen.

>>17189724
use google nigga i literally got the answer in 3 seconds

>>17184452
overkill for reading books

>>17186950
Shit, it looks good, but I hate all the apps. It stresses me out, having so many different apps from different distributors. I just want a streamlined little thing that works

>>17185633
so are all other ereaders

>>17189744
Necessary if you want to read pdfs properly.

>>17189938
read PDF's on your computer/laptop, duh

>>17189783
Blame the distributors for wanting their own walled gardens instead of using a standard format without DRM fuckery. At least Android allows you to use a single device instead of needing different models for different platforms.

>>17190177
yeah, but so does calibre

>>17190236
Calibre can hardly crack all DRM.

Repent from globohomo simulacral police state Capitalist minimalism and buy real books zoomer

>>17190247
maybe, but unless you're looking for something very old or obscure, you can find it on libgen or b-ok

You will buy the e-reader
You will get in the pod
You will eat the bugs
You will own nothing, and you will be happy

>>17190269
Happiness doesn’t mean anything when we die.

>>17188420
Ask me how I know that you don't know shit. I have read hundreds of pirated books and I have had formatting issues with fewer of them than I can count on my hand. Also, you are a woman.

>>17189649
Probably, just use calibre to convert if the kobo books are epub

>>17190337
Unless you're talking about books with drm, but you can probably get a program to remove that

>>17188420
Sounds like you downloaded some shitty OCR'd book that doesn't even have an ebook version. A good rule of thumb is that if there's not an official ebook then you should pirate the pdf instead, but there's absolutely no difference between a pirated and bought epub because they are literally the same file.

>>17190343
i think it's called the De-DRM plugin in Calibre

>>17190269
>*snifffffffff* ooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MMMMMMMMMMM I LOVE THE SMELL OF BOOKS I LOVE THE SMELL OF PAPER AHHHHHHHHHH OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *snnnnnnnifffffffffffffF* OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I LOOOOOVE THE TACTILE FEEL OF MY SHITTY PAPERBACK *sniffffffffffffff* OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I AM COOOOOOOOOMING AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I will buy the e-reader and I will be happy, I am not shilling out 15 eurobucks for a shitty paperback, I will only buy physical copies of the books that I like and that I want to keep for my children. You can own both you massive faggot.

This whole fucking shit is so confusing.

I have Calibre installed. I just plugged in my kobo, and I can´t even read my books. What the fuck is this shit?

>>17190470
What do you mean? I use Calibre for my kobo and it works fine. What's your problem?

>>17190495
I bought some books on the Kobo store. I can see them listed on Calibre when I plug my kobo to the computer via usb cable.

What I cannot do is open them (read them) on the computer. I also cannot convert them which was my main goal.

>>17190470
i don't know, give us some more info and maybe someone can help you
watch the Calibre demo if you haven't if you're that confused

>>17190520
Oh sorry I wouldn't know I just pirate all of the books in epub or failing that pdf. Good luck anon

>>17190520
Preferences > Get Plugins > De-DRM
it might not be updated for the latest version of Calibre yet, i didn't find it just now

I use a koboLibra h20
its significantly cheaper than the equivalent kindle(oasis). it works really well. Its reliable and wroks well with calibre. loading it up with epubs is simple (most pirated books are epubs). You have to convert to mobi for kindle.

Bottom line, kindleisn't worth the extra money and Jeff Bozo is a prick

>>17190606
Oasis only advantage might be the dictionaries and the build quality. Kobo is cheap plastic shit.

I have an Oasis (8th). Love the physical buttons.

Just wish the Overdrive/Libby integration were better.

>>17190571
Not available yet. Hopefully soon.

Not a single mention of the Nook from Barnes and Noble?
I've been using a Nook since 2010.
Great for reading Books, PDFs and CBR/CBZ!
Built in dictionary is pretty damn good!
Expandable Micro SD storage as well.

>>17191024
Because they have crashed and burned.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=1c3e1765a0dfaa201e23d18733d89088&t=330732

The Kobo will die out eventually.

Read a physical book nigger

>>17191132
There are literally zero advantages to that

Is 300 PPI necessary for reading epubs?

>>17191590
300PPI is already shit, as it is.

>>17189368
I once downloaded some french-english dictionaries from libgen and installed them in my kindle. I don't remember the process but it was easy.

>>17191590
I'd prefer it but 207 works for me.

>>17190269
I haven't stopped buying physical books. If anything, thanks to my kindle I'm only buying books I'm certain I'm going to enjoy.

>>17191601
I have the choice between 300 PPI and a higher resolution screen or 212 PPI and a lower resolution screen but with physical buttons and a bit cheaper. What would be the better choice?

>>17191665
Get the 300 ppi one, make sure it has bluetooth.
Then use a bluetooth page turner to turn the pages.

>>17191590
>>17191601
>>17191665
167 ppi is enough for me. I've looked at 300 ppi and 167 side-by-side and didn't notice the difference. Other people act like it's unreadable.

>>17191665
Sadly, I believe that 300 PPI is the current high-end industry standard. I still haven't seen anything going above that.

Just Don't ever go below 300 PPI.

>>17191696
>167 ppi is enough for me. I've looked at 300 ppi and 167 side-by-side and didn't notice the difference. Other people act like it's unreadable.
Sorry buddy, but you should definitely contact your optometrist.

The difference is night and day. It's like reading from a shitty pixelated game-boy and having a real book in front of you.

>>17191708
I just messed around with it and I can see the pixels if I crank the light way up. But I always have the light down as low as possible. And I read on the 2nd smallest font. My eyesight is fine.

> Thought i wanted an ink ereader
> but in reality, i wanted a tablet for manga and comics
just buy used books online

>>17192295
>implying a premium e-reader isn't the best medium to read manga.

>>17192295
Used books are either expensive or nonexistant in my country because no one reads.

>>17192460
Where are you from?

>>17192679
The Netherlands.

Remarkable 2 is the true superior option. Fast updating screen and scribble notes in your margins.

>>17193199
The remarkable is only fast at drawing and you pay for that with jagged lines since it skips post processing.
The reader capabilities are a joke. All epubs are converted to pdf so you can scribble on them which takes a huge amount of time and fills up the 8 GB of storage it has.
A Boox Note or Max is on a completely different level.

>>17185633
literally the only ereader running Android 10 and run every proprietary DRM shit that hasn't been cracked yet (useful if you want to read books that aren't in English and aren't available through Amazon, Google, or Kobo, so hasn't been pirated yet)

>>17193309
That depends on whether you want to consider the Hisense A5 Pro and A7 ereaders.
Boox does have the advantage of the Google Playstore.