E-Reader Thread

[Anonymous No.11151727]

What ereaders does /lit/ recommend? I’m thinking of buying a new Kindle Paperwhite today, I had one several years ago that I liked until it was stolen. Is there a lesser known competitor that’s worth looking at??

[Anonymous No.11151752]

>>11151727
Wait for Christmas. You can usually get one for $60-$90.

[Anonymous No.11151760]

>>11151752
I’m not going to wait six months to make a $120 purchase I’m not that poor.

[Anonymous No.11151860]

I would look at kobo, those things look pretty snazy

[Anonymous No.11151875]

>>11151727

I have a Kobo Aura One and it's fucking good.

[Anonymous No.11151887]

Get a Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 you fucking poorfag.

[Anonymous No.11151893]

>Getting off the Amazon plantation
Are you a nigger? Just get the damn paperwhite, they're fine. Lesser e-readers are trash.

[Anonymous No.11151911]

>>11151893
>willingly getting fucked by Bezos

[Anonymous No.11151928]

>>11151911
Listen bitch, transniggers are people too. I willingly get fucked by Muslim refugees and rent movies from Amazon Prime instead of pirating. Just accept your new future you fucking white male.

[Anonymous No.11152046]

>>11151727
If you're not completely required to use an e-ink display, I recommend a foldable chromebook

[Anonymous No.11152071]

>>11151727
there are cheapter tablets but they aren't optimized for reading. Paperwhites have the e-ink display, front light that keeps your eyes from being strained, high PPI, really long battery life and a bunch of other stuff. If you're just gonna get a regular tablet you might as well just read on your computer.

[Anonymous No.11152094]

>>11152046
just made this so you can see what it's like to read on a chromebook.

I think eink is a meme. What's great about e-ink displays is that they're effectively very high resolution, which was a big deal a decade ago because cheap laptops almost exclusively came with 720p TN displays with poor brightness.

Not the case with chromebooks, I'm not sure what the nit rating is, but the resolution is 2400x1600 and there's no character aliasing. I don't get as great of battery life as I'm sure a kindle would get, but it's good enough for me. Easily 8+ hours.

[Anonymous No.11152101]

>>11152071
Paperwhites are cheap as shit, if you buy anything cheaper than a paperwhite you're buying chink garbage. I will never understand "people" that buy that trash. It's not like paperwhites are at some unobtainable price.

[Anonymous No.11152108]

>>11152094
I read on my S3 tablet and it's fine but it can be too bright, even on the lowest setting. I liked my paperwhite very much but I dropped something on the screen like a tard.

[Anonymous No.11152119]

>>11151887
>>11152046
>>11152094
this is an e-reader thread, fuck off with your tablets/laptops.

[Anonymous No.11152178]

>>11152119
You're a fucking idiot if you buy an ereader. I'd rather have a device that wasn't a single purpose POS. I use my tablet for reading AND my job, daily. Get fucked you NEET faggot.

[Anonymous No.11152182]

>>11152178
lol retard

[Anonymous No.11152194]

>>11152182
>muh e-ink

[Anonymous No.11152211]

>>11152194
that plus
>muh battery life
>muh light weight

tablets just can't compete

[Anonymous No.11152219]

>>11152194
>>11152178
>>11152108
>>11152094
Your probably a troll, but the main thing with eink is that it has no glare, and you can read it at night without staying up tell 4 o'clock.

[Anonymous No.11152225]

>>11152094
>What's great about e-ink displays is that they're effectively very high resolution
The benefit of e-ink displays is that they aren't backlit, so they're much easier on the eyes and don't glare. It looks like an actual page. For some people looking at a backlit screen for too long tires their eyes and diminishes their focus

[Anonymous No.11152226]

>>11151727
If you're just look for something cheap, then a Nook Glowlight 3 or Plus is great. Though I wouldn't recommend a nook if you're not going to pirate your books. Barnes and Noble are on borrowed time. Also telling people you own a nook feels gross.

[Anonymous No.11152232]

>>11152178
>>11152194
E-ink just looks better. See>>11152225

[Anonymous No.11152236]

>>11152219
>you can read it at night without staying up tell 4 o'clock
So a tablet, phone, or book hold a gun to your head until the clock strikes four? Kid pls go

[Anonymous No.11152254]

>>11152236
Spend a little time looking into how blue light effects your brain.

[Anonymous No.11152265]

>>11152225
I've owned a kindle before, and in direct sunlight it was just as useless and you still had to worry about sunlight. If you intend on reading outside, you're fucked unless it's paper...

Ironically, I find that modern LED displays actually are bright enough that they can work decently in direct sunlight, so maybe even better than an e-ink display.

[Anonymous No.11152275]

I've had 2 kindle 3rd gen. First's screen broke, I think, lasted some years; second was a gift, lasting many years. Probably best electronic thing I own along with my thinkpad.

If you can shell out the cash and find a decent review (such that you get a feel for the UI, which on SOME chink and russian ereaders is wonky) you could buy a 9, 10 or 13'' one from onyx, sony, and there's a polish company too, some of em also support note taking and it's intuitive and save on top of a copy of the pdf so you have an annotated ver. and the orginial.

[Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 No.11152293]

>>11152265
What the fuck are you talking about? I was just reading outside in direct sunlight during one of the sunniest days of the year so far and my kindle looked as good as paper.

My iphone was readable too, so I don't think that it's a major selling point, but my kindle certainly looked better.

[Anonymous No.11152294]

>>11152108
You can try the app "Twilight". With that you can turn the brightness very low.

[Anonymous No.11152309]

>>11152265
You've never owned a kindle.

[Anonymous No.11152316]

>>11152275
>you could buy a 9, 10 or 13''
Yeah, but I recommend most people who just read books "casually" to not go over 6" screens.
The portability and light weight of a smaller reader is a big plus.

[Anonymous No.11152328]

>>11152254
Considering I fall asleep with my phone in hand I think your science is fake news

[Anonymous No.11152345]

>>11152328
Blue light is a boomer meme.

[Anonymous No.11152365]

>>11152309

[Anonymous No.11152390]

>>11152365
That specific model of kindle maybe has a more reflective screen? I've never had that issue and i've been reading outside with kindles for years.

[Anonymous No.11152394]

Get the Kobo Aura One H2O
you can do this with it
>pic related

[Anonymous No.11152423]

>>11152394
Reading with bathing, showering or swimming seems unnecessary, but whatever floats your boat or kindle..

[Anonymous No.11152443]

>>11152423
well that's exactly the problem. Reading has become a sort of signal that you send to others rather than something that people genuinely enjoy. So much of the appeal of an e-reader is to carry it around as an accessory so you can signal to others what kind of person you are. The point for many people is for it to be a prop in an instagram post, you and your kindle in the tub, you and your kindle in the grass at the park, you and your kindle in the airport. It's a signal that says, "hey, I read so much that I own a device specifically for reading!"

But if you own other devices that do it equally as well, and if you're honest with yourself and you know that you're not some sort of attention whore that is even remotely dressing up the idea of walking around in public with an e-reader, well, what are you wasting your money for?

[Anonymous No.11152571]

>>11152265
that might have been a problem with the first gens from like a decade ago

but they work fine in direct sunlight now

[Anonymous No.11152576]

>>11152365
Cause it's not the Paperwhite

the Paperwhite doesn't do that

[Anonymous No.11153113]

>>11151875
Same

[Anonymous No.11153133]

>>11152394
Mine died as soon as hit the water. Resistant not proof.

[Anonymous No.11153234]

>>11151727
paperwhite is good i have it and i recommend to everybody but without a cover it gets really smudgy and its basically an amazon botnet

10/10 would buy again

[Anonymous No.11153496]

>>11152443
autism