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I'm going to have some bonus money this month and I want yo but an e-reader.
Kindle is out of question because I don't want to enrich Bezos, what are the other options?
I thought about Kobo but does it support pirated formats decently?
I also need something with decent battery life.

>> No.18611469

Hey OP, I am gonna hijack your thread to ask a related question:

Is anybody using an 8" tablet to read pdf books? How is the overall experience? Moreover, is it light enough to read while lying in bed?

t. thinking of getting the lenovo tab m8 specifically for pdf books

>> No.18611490

Kobo supports

Books: EPUB, EPUB3 (Note: Kobo Original and Kobo Wi Fi does not support EPUB3), PDF, FlePub and MOBI
Documents: PDF
Images: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, and TIFF
Text: TXT, HTML, and RTF
Comic Books: CBZ and CBR

sorry for wonky formatting copy pasted from their site. I have a Kobo clara HD, if youre using it for multiple hours a day you should get at a few weeks of use. I've also left it on sleep for months on a few occasions and it will still have battery life. overall its pretty solid.

>> No.18611491

Also to answer your question OP, get any kobo and you re good to go. I have the kindle and its a pain in the ass to transform files to mobi everytime

>> No.18611539

>>18611490
piggybacking off of this post to mention that Kobo has a feature that tracks stats like how much time you've spent on a book and average reading pager per minute, but it only does this in it's own proprietary format, which is kepub
if you care about that

>> No.18611548

>>18611539
Should I get a kobo for pdf or go for a tablet like >>18611469

>> No.18611553

>>18611548
if pdf is your main focus
get a real tablet, any e-reader with a screen big enough for pdfs are going to be in the same range as an actual tablet in terms of cost

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I have this Sony PRS T-1(?) from like 2009, it works just fine. Also like the aesthetic, it is quite actual book-like

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I have a Kobo Aura H20 2, got it refurb'd from their website. Works well for me with lots of format options, though I mostly try to get EPUBs anyways. I use it for books and also for manga in CBZ format, which looks pretty good on it imo.

>> No.18611819

>>18611458
>Kindle is out of question because I don't want to enrich Bezos, what are the other options?

Paperwhite is best, and if you want to hurt bezos buy one used or new, and pirate books since they are made at a huge loss presuming that normies will buy off of amazon

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>>18611458
>Kindle is out of question because I don't want to enrich Bezos,

yeah I'm sure he's really gonna miss that ~$80 your purchase would've earned him.
Damn how will he survive now?
Bezos on suicide watch

>> No.18612494

>>18611819
>>18611854
OP, don't listen to these shills.
Buy whatever brand you want to buy, it's worth considering that kindles are produced by Amazon and are mildly harder to put free books onto than some other ereaders.

>> No.18612504

Don’t a lot of epubs off libgen have weird messed up formatting issues?

>> No.18612549

>>18611854
this, but unironically

>> No.18613088

>>18611815
How do you "read" double page spreads do you have to always flip the device.

>> No.18613317

Speaking of e-readers is kindle unlimited worth getting I don't give a fuck if Bezos makes a few bucks off me if it's a good deal he's making more money than most governments shipping junk to people anyways

>> No.18613328

Get an Android device so you don't get locked in, preferably one with access to updates.

>> No.18613359

>>18611458
Pocketbook Touch HD3. Don't buy the new colour model, it's bad in B&W and too expensive.

>> No.18613362

>>18611491
>I have the kindle and its a pain in the ass to transform files to mobi everytime
Calibre can do it automatically, how is it a pain?

>>18611548
tablet

>>18612504
i had a few early on (not many). i used the Calibre setup guide that floats around here and haven't noticed any since. could just be coincidence, i don't know.