/lit/ - Literature

>>17353626
ipad pro

end of discussion

>>17353638
>no e-ink
enjoy your ruined eyesight
for everything ipads are great, yes

>>17353626
>YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY
Fucking bugs asking for the best way to be enslaved.

>>17353626
I'm a kraut and thus use a tolino, which is basically just a Kobo. I like it well enough. Also tried using a Kindle for a while, but there's too many commercials and the gesture controls are pretty unintuitive. I also don't like that they refuse to support epub.

I bought a kindle oasis and it has the best UI I’ve seen on any e-reader. And the best feel to it

But I sold it because nothing will beat physical books, plus I decided to not be an Amazon consoomer anymore. Kobo is probably your best bet

>>17353626
Yes it's excellent, just get books from b-ok and use calibre. pays for itself.

kindle is for old women
get a kobo

>>17353626
Get an Oasis. It's worth it.

>>17353667
Oasis is a great, but it’s twice the price for marginal additions (a bit bigger screen, buttons, yellow light)

From the previous threads on the subject I've gathered that there are two basic schools of thoughts when it comes to e-readers:
A: Get a Kobo, greater freedom, not locked into the walled garden, can buy from many different shops and pirate at will
B: Get a Kindle, good interface, easy to do business with Amazon, everything you buy stays in a single cloud with no problems, can pirate at will and Amazon even saves your pirated books in their cloud.
I own a kindle paperwhite, probably from 2016 or 2018. It's good enough. I'm kind of hoping it will fail, so I can convince myself to buy an Oasis.
I had a Kobo some years ago, it was good, but I wasn't able to buy the third party books I wanted because Adobes DRM management was shit. Kobo has Pocket integration, which is the only thing I miss when using a Kindle.

>>17353667
Are pdfs readable on?
Larger screen + higher res so it should be better, but is it good enough?

>>17353648
Wait what commercials in the Kindle?

>>17353744
Do you pirate on the Kindle or do you have to download on the PC and then transfer to the Kindle? Any can you find almost everything you want pirating?

>>17353643
Dude people have been renting books from libraries for centuries. They didn't own shit. Not everyone has the money or space for thousands of books. The Consoomer meme is getting tired.

>>17353803
You can't pirate directly to the kindle. But it's easy.
Download book
Email to your kindle

You'll find almost any English language book on b-ok.org.

>>17353626
more like peereaders

>>17353786
Since the page layout is static, you’ll still end up with quite small text in most cases, although readable. Also, the bigger the file, the slower it will work: a PDF of Wittgenstein’s Blue and Brown notebooks takes 5 seconds to open up and 3-4 to turn a page (Kindle’s slow processing power are to blame for this, I believe).

>>17353803
you can find epubs for everything
I usually then convert it to the bezos format and copy to kindle via usb
it’s all quite easier than it sounds and takes less than a minute.

>>17353738
It is, but I read so much on the damned thing that I would pay three times the price.
The yellow light is glorious. Once you use it you will never turn it off.
The fact that is water resistant and the extra screen size are also a very big plus.

But you're right. Its priced is very inflated for what it makes to manufacture. The same applies for the cases. The only good ones are made from amazon and cost almost 50$.

>>17353786
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-CIESDs78g

That's an older generation but it looks great to me.

>>17353880
How sturdy is it? Do you throw it in your bag when your on the go?

>>17353908
I have a case with it. But it's just as sturdy as any good quality phone.

I had a Kobo GLO HD before, and it was plastic trash in comparison. This one feels heavier and sturdier. It also has a nice handle.

Protip: Turn of your homescreen so you are always in your library when you exit a book. Unless you are a turbo normie that buys one book at a time and reads one book at a time you don't need the homescreen.

I finally splurged and bought a Kindle Oasis, after my 8+ year old 4th gen kindle's battery started to be worn down a bit. This is the first device I've had with backlighting and it's great. I pirate all my books, usually from libgen. Converting if I have to with Calibre. Takes like a minute.

I have tons of paper books and often buy a paper copy of something I've finished reading, just to have it around, if I can get it cheap.

>>17353626
kindle pw is the best balance between price, feature, and durability.
>but no epubs!
I've pirated 500 books and I've been able to find a mobi or PDF of most of them. You're also able to convert files very easily using calibre (or on zlibrary itself).

>>17353908
It's the best you can get.

>>17353786
Oasis is tiny with just 7". And it costs more than many 7.8". And the Kindle software for pdf sucks.
If you want to read pdf you should get a Boox Note Air or Max Lumi.

>>17354172
>Boox Note Air or Max Lumi.
Cheap plastic trash.

>>17354182
The Note Air is made out of aluminum and neither of them is cheap or trash.

>>17354189
How often do you have to recharge them?

>>17354193
Depending on your usage maybe once every week or two.

>>17353626
yes, they are good for reading on, especially at night (at least on the oasis) since you can alter the screen to be non-straining and read without any lights at all.
good for long series with multiple entry's since you don't have to dedicate a bookshelf to them.
however, there's no real sense of progression in terms of reading a book physically and personally ill have breaks where i read almost exclusively between the two since there really is no substitute for turning a page.

>>17353790
iirc they sell a cheaper version of kindle that has ads, but I think there are many ways of getting rid of them

>>17353790
>>17354231
The ads don't interfere with the content you consume. You see them when the kindle is turned of and there is a small banner at the bottom of the home screen.

>>17354231
Can't wait till ads are directly broadcasted into my skull with proprietary Amazon M2K tech.

>>17353880
So i'm also thinking in to boying one, and i would like to know if all ereaders are that small? was going into a search and all that i could find was, 6 inchs, 7 inchs, 8 inchs tops... are all of the ereaders that small? is there a bigger model?

>>17354364
There are 10.3 and 13.3 inch models.
Not by Amazon, B&N or Kobo but by Pocketbook, Onyx or Likebook.

>>17354279
>>17354299
Previously there was an option to pay a fee to remove ads or something, but I didn't find it.
I contacted the amazon support in the chat, asked them to remove the ads and they just did it.

>>17354364
There's no real benefit for having a disproportionally large display if all you want to do is read books.

>>17354373
thanks, but let me ask, does the small size interfere with anything?

>>17354402
why? can you elaborate?

>>17354402
>>17354412
Of course there is.
Fixed format ebooks such as pdf are far more readable on a large screen, remember that E Ink isn't suited for excessive zooming.
On reflowable formats like epub you get more information per page so you need to flip pages less often.
You can also use split screen to read two different books, take notes or do whatever else you might want have next to a book.

>>17353880
Literally every kindle has bluelight removal. Even the fire.

>>17354431
You can turn the light off but you can't switch to a red light like you can on just about every other e-reader.

>>17354425
Unless you're reading PDF's, Manga or anything with images, anything more than 7 inches becomes worthless.

The 300 ppi is more than enough resolution and you can change the text size/font/justification all you like.

It's also the only way you can hold something with one hand.

You can adjust

>>17354430
>reading e-books
>pdf

>>17354443
I can hold my 13.3" Max 3 with one hand without problems. Are you a baby or something that you can't hold an A4 sized paper?

>>17354431
It's not the same. The yellow light gives a realistic warmth like I've never seen. I almost forget that I'm looking at a display.

>>17353626
kobo

>>17354458
>"Hurr dur I'm gonna read an entire book while holding a 13.3'' display in one hand"

>>17354459
if you remove the blue light all thats left is yellow. There is near zero difference between the light from my Paperwhite and my Fire (not talking about e-ink which clearly looks better). Does the oasis do something no other ereader does with its lighting or something?

>>17354475
Hardly. Unless you're outside of Amazon's reach.

Virtually every single thing about Kobo is inferior to the Kindle. Book Pricing, Foreign book editions availability, hardware quality, dictionaries, support etc...

Kindle has the X-ray functionality on top of having a Wikipedia "hyperwindow" and a fucking translator. It's perfect.

>>17354493
>Does the oasis do something no other ereader does with its lighting or something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM2bLJx7cAg

>>17354493
The Paperwhite has a white frontlight.
The Oasis, Kobo, Boox, Likebook etc have RGB frontlight that lets you turn down blue and green for more warm red lighting.

>>17354512
Ok I guess I'm still unclear on how thats different than the bluelight removal function but that video does seem to show the Oasis as even more amber-colored than my Paperwhite with bluelight all the way off.

I got a Kobo Forma. My hands are very delicate and the buttons are so hard to push. I've developed thick calloses and it still hurts. I often hesitate turning the page because I know how painful it will be. Even the touch screen hurts. My arms get so tired holding the Kobo up, especially my wrist and elbow. My muscles get so sore they feel like they're on fire and I sometimes weep while reading which makes the text blurry. I often have to take lukewarm bubble baths to rest up after an intense half hour reading session. I usually prop the Kobo up against a bottle, which luckily I have a lot of, and press the button with a chopstick, which is difficult because the Kobo will flop because my bamboo tabletop is uneven even with a silk doily spread on it. My eyes get eyestrain easily so I use a magnifying glass and one time it caught the sun and lit my thigh on fire and I had to go to the hospital and the nurses made fun of me and laughed at me and said it wasn't really burnt it just made my skin a bit hot for a few seconds but the doctor said I was brave. I'd go back to reading paper books but I used to get painful paper cuts all the time and bleed and books were also very heavy.

>>17354575
The Paperwhite doesn't have blue light options.
The difference between to a Kindle Fire or whatever LCD screen is that those will use software to tint the image red which is then displayed by the backlit LCD.
Meanwhile with E Ink the front light is changed on a hardware level.

>>17353803
There is a great kindle (and maybe other e-reader) management app i use on my laptop called Calibre. You can drag all your pirated or otherwise book files on and it will sync wired or wirelessly with your kindle

>>17354626
>or wirelessly with your kindle
I know about and extensively use Calibre. It's very well known in the community. Why I haven't heard of is this wireless functionality. I do every connection by cable.

>>17353643
More like I'll pirate everything and save money.