eReader

[Anonymous No.18953957]

>there are people on this board who haven't switched to an e-reader yet

[Anonymous No.18953963]

My copy adventures of huckleberry finn has colored pictures and doodles everywhere. Can your eReader do that?

[Anonymous No.18953994]

>>18953963
*African-American pictures

[Anonymous No.18954003]

>>18953957
There're no good e-readers, change my mind.

[Anonymous No.18954024]

>>18954003
>not pirating the world's most important literature onto a lightweight portable device
ngmi

[Anonymous No.18954030]

>>18954024
Are you a shill or something?

[Anonymous No.18954090]

>>18954024
I own a Kindle. It's still software built for integration with Amazon which is only slightly customizable. Good luck getting older files on there, let alone decent scaling on PDFs.

[Anonymous No.18954113]

>>18954090
he posted a picture of a kobo you dip shit. its your own fault for buying amazon l o l

[Anonymous No.18954175]

>>18954113
Sorry I'm moderately drunk and couldn't be fucked differentiating between the Kobos and the Kindle Oasis. Though I'm almost certain the Kobo lineup locks you into an ecosystem as well

[Anonymous No.18954217]

>>18954175
>the Kobo lineup locks you into an ecosystem as well
nope, Kobo supports sideloaded PDFs and epubs out-of-the-box

[Anonymous No.18954233]

>>18954175
Then Pocketbook. Runs on Linux, no ecosystem except the PB library that you have no obligation to buy from. 23 ebook formats supported natively that you can extend by sideloading Koreader.
A 6" device will cost around $120 with warm/cold back-light and a sd card slot, to around $400 for a 10.3" unit for comfy pdf reading.
Fully customisable fonts and dictionaries that you can find on mobiread.com.

[Anonymous No.18954442]

>>18954024
>>18954217
Gotta second this guy. My ancient Kindle died last year and Kobo replacement has been a huge upgrade for pirating books. It's just way less fussy with conversions/file transfers.

[Anonymous No.18954506]

I like physical books

[Anonymous No.18954512]

>>18953957
>>18954024
Poorfag devices that are objectively inferior to physical books. Only 13" sony digital paper chads are allowed to claim superiority over the physical medium.

[Anonymous No.18954599]

>>18953957
will try a kobo for pirated material when they release a usb-c version, meanwhile they can fuck off

[Anonymous No.18954647]

>>18953963
colored e-ink devices have been available for years, not sure how they are because I don't have money for that

[Anonymous No.18954676]

>>18954217
>>18954233
>>18954442
Jeez LOUISE the hoops these retards go through to save four dollars lmao.
Who here is a used paperback Chad?

[Anonymous No.18954842]

>>18954599
Kobo Elipsa has USB-C

[Anonymous No.18954847]

>>18954512
What about Boox Max?
Or Dual-13" like the Gvido?
Do the Papyr and Quaderno A4 count as Sony?

[Anonymous No.18955282]

Question about new ereaders - does the screen always look as crisp as in >>18954024 pic? My 10 year old kobo glo distorts the letters a bit if it hasn't been refreshed for a few pages.

[Anonymous No.18955314]

>>18955282
Yes, it does. Newer e-readers have significantly higher resolutions.

[Anonymous No.18955317]

These console wars give me the idea that nobody really reads at all here. If I need to read some essay I just mail it to the Kindle. If someone suggests I read a small novel I buy it for 2 dollars. I don't have room for hundreds of random paperbacks. Paperbacks are also terrible and in no way superior just because they're paper. This is just consoomer fetishism at work. They are not pleasant to read. They do not open flat like a sewn hardcover. Now I do buy actual books but it's sewn hardcovers occasionally when it's a book I particularly value. What OP does is how it should be. A device for reading random shit and a hardcover if you need it to last or to make heavy use of it.

[Anonymous No.18955323]

>>18953957
there are people on this board who care more about justifying their choices than the literature they supposedly read.

[Anonymous No.18955337]

>>18955323
>there are people on this board who care
Tedious.

[Anonymous No.18955359]

>>18953957
>>18954024
Yeah it's so fun and good until we get a solar flare/storm and we get the world wide equivalent of the Library of Alexandria burning down because fags decided that all of our knowledge should be stored on the same medium.

[Anonymous No.18955372]

Am I the only one who reads books on my phone using Adobe and Google Books?

[Anonymous No.18955391]

>>18954512
this is a stupid take.

digital paper is for STEM chads reading studies

why would you want to read a novel/fiction on A4?

stupid contrarian

[Anonymous No.18955394]

>>18955337
>pretext
Tedious.

[Anonymous No.18955404]

>>18955359
> but guys, what if the thing that already happened to our old technology multiple times could maybe under very unlikely, never seem before circumstances happen to the new tech?

you are so unbelievably dense

[Anonymous No.18955423]

>>18955391
You read it horizontally in two page mode so it feels like a book.

[Anonymous No.18955425]

>>18955317

Pretty much what anon here says. Also, ereaders are great for reading in a foreign language

[Anonymous No.18955438]

>>18955359
>last 4chan autist switches to e-reader
>the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Library of Congress, and British Library collectively announce they are burning their entire physical collection to switch to .epub because "it's so much more convenient lol"
>big solar flare ensues
>"nooooooooo!!! not the heckin bookerinos"
many such cases

[Anonymous No.18955451]

>buy e-reader
>a month later it's collecting dust and I'm back to reading physical books
It's nice to have options and there are obvious advantages to it, but it just isn't the same.

[Anonymous No.18955454]

>>18955425
>foreign language

I read Blood Meridian on an eReader, and the built in translation tool was handy for the Spanish parts.

[Anonymous No.18955473]

>>18955282
you still need to refresh every once in a while. that's just e-ink. it's a setting you can change to set an automatic refresh as often as you want

>>18954676
>four dollars
correction, ALL the dollars, and there are zero hoops to jump through.

[Anonymous No.18955506]

I read pdfs on my computer monitor

[Anonymous No.18955511]

>>18955423
lmao have fun accidentally breaking your 500 euro device trying to closeit

[Anonymous No.18955512]

>€15 has been deposited into your account for shilling on /lit/
How do I get your job?

[Anonymous No.18955513]

>>18955511
800 and it's worked great for the past two years.

[Anonymous No.18955518]

>>18953957
At some point it just stopped being fun to lug around books I was reading at the moment. Shit, if phone screens were any better I wouldn't use e-readers.

[Anonymous No.18955545]

>>18955513
>nooooo you're a retard for buying this practical 60 euro device
>buy this 1000 euro device instead for a marginally better consoomer "experience"
let me guess, you're just baiting so you can post
>stop being poor
do me a favor and gut yourself with a rusty bread knife

[Anonymous No.18955582]

I used a kindle paperwhite for years but went back to physical books.
>hated the forced adverts - no I do not want to read random political books that I have no interest in
>hated the fact that books could be updated - what if Amazon decides to censor a line of your book?
>even though it uses e-ink, it still feels uncomfortable to stare at a screen for hours. paper books feel easier on my eyes
>you remember more from physical books, and can use your spatial memory to pinpoint exactly where in the book a specific piece of information is located
>you actually own a physical book, you aren't just renting a license for the book

The only real advantage that kindle had for me was the ability to access all kinds of books that I can't buy in a bookstore or order cheaply. I can't speak for Kobo or other ereaders, but it was definitely not worth it. The way I see it, ebooks vs paper books is like steam vs GOG. I like to own my books and have control over them.

[Anonymous No.18955622]

>>18955582
>kindle
You were destined for failure. Should have went for the Kobo.

[Anonymous No.18955655]

>>18955622
Yeah when I got it I didn't know what Kobo was. Indeed I should have bought it in hindsight, or just not wasted the money. At this point I'll just stick with paper. The very thought of reading another ebook makes me want to vomit.

[Anonymous No.18955718]

>>18955582
>steam vs GOG
that's a good analogy for Kindle vs Kobo, actually.

[Anonymous No.18955748]

>>18955372
good luck to your eyes

[Anonymous No.18955759]

>>18953957
I have. Althought maybe I'm an outlier because I read very little before buying the e-reader. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who wants to read more but doesn't want to spend money on it. Just pirate the shit out of practically every book ever written and you're good to go. Shit, depending on your tastes a good portion of what you're downloading might be in the public domain anyway, so you're basically getting ripped off if you buy a physical version of it. Definitely beats reading text on a monitor or a tablet screen either way, that's for sure. Also, nobody ever seems to mention this but the ablity to tap a word and immediately get a dictionary definition for it is supremely useful, espcially if you're reading the aforementioned older texts.

[Anonymous No.18955790]

>>18955582
You're pretty much right on all these points to a degree, except the ads. Kindles go sharply on sale often and when they do, the extra cost to remove the ads is negligible (yeah it's retarded that you have to pay to remove the ads but at least it's a one-off extortion).
All I don't understand is this assumption that an e-reader means exclusivity. Unless you get a 300 dollars device it pays for itself very quickly. The only true argument I have toward boycotting e-readers entirely is that they somewhat promote shoddier printing on physical books. Assuming that by using e-readers you are actually damaging print, physical books will eventualy become more and more of a display/collector item and less of something you're supposed to make use of. I think this is actually a big deal because all this technology shit is a slippery slope and you only notice what you have lost far too late.

[Anonymous No.18955879]

>>18954676
>four dollars
My hard limit is usually 3€/book desu. There are exceptions but not many

[Anonymous No.18955891]

>>18955438
>Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Library of Congress, and British Library
Do you have full, physical access to one (1) of them?

[Anonymous No.18955895]

>>18955454
>Spanish parts.
Can you post a sample of the Spanish parts?

[Anonymous No.18955897]

>>18955655
Your loss.

[Anonymous No.18955903]

>>18955582
>>hated the forced adverts
wtf, ADs while I read? No fucking way

[Anonymous No.18955915]

>>18955879
Everything that isn't popshit is usually sub 2€ in digital format. The vast majority of classics are free.

[Anonymous No.18955923]

>>18955903
Nah it's just in the main menu and you can remove them with a one off payment

[Anonymous No.18956115]

>>18955915
>Everything that isn't popshit is usually sub 2€ in digital format.
If I usually get 1-3 physical books for 2 euros, you can clearly see which one is the better deal.
>>18955923
Absolutely haram

[Anonymous No.18956125]

>>18956115
If I had a nice used bookstore that offered me books in English and in a decent condition for that price I'd obviously prefer that. You are lucky anon,.

[Anonymous No.18956186]

>>18956125
I actually don't have a favorite used bookstore, I browse multiples, but to be completely honest, I try to avoid "used bookstores", they usually charge crazy prices (5-10-20 euros or so). The best are the thrift shops where books are not the core business - those were they also sell furniture, clothes, random objects, see pic (of course I'm not speaking about upper end antiquarian stores). These ones usually don't really know the value of a book, so they just throw them at you. The actual used bookstores """know""" the value and they just try to scam you. It wasn't just one time that I've seen the exact same edition for 10 or 20 bucks while I had payed mine 1-2.

On top of that

my library sometimes has books on a table "FREE TO TAKE, OTHERWISE WE TRASH THEM"
Bookcrossing in random public places or bars, degree of strictness vary (some will tell you "just take them bro", some will ask you to bring them back, some will ask you to bring something else back)
Literally taking them from the trash (paper bins, not generic trash bin)

[Anonymous No.18956188]

>>18955895
They speak Spanish quite regularly in the book, usually when they’re talking to Mexican characters.

[Anonymous No.18957067]

>>18953957
I read only indoors, where e-readers have no advantage over phones/tablets.

[Anonymous No.18957073]

>go on b-ok.org
>pdf only
>have to read super tiny font
>ereaders are superior
Why can't I just read both physical and digital depending on the situation?

[Anonymous No.18957085]

I like physical books

[Anonymous No.18957211]

i'm still using my 10-year-old DX. is the newer stuff an improvement in any way?

[Anonymous No.18957215]

>>18953957
I want to hold one in my hands before buying but I ain't getting the vax no sir

[Anonymous No.18957375]

>>18957073
No, you must choose.

[Anonymous No.18957545]

>>18955404
Good bait. You do know there's a thing in the universe called magnitude, right? I thought people who read books and liked boasting about how many books they read at least knew THAT concept.

[Anonymous No.18957758]

>>18955454
which ereader did you use for that?
sounds like a useful function

[Anonymous No.18957844]

>>18954003
Kobo's button e readers feel great
Amazon Paperwhite

[Anonymous No.18957855]

>>18954676
Nigger I live in fucking south america
There are plenty of books that I can't get anywhere, or otherwise they're super fucking expensive.
Fucking Dostoyevski's Notes from the Underground was available in 1 bookstore across my entire region and it was 20 dollars. Wasn't even a nice edition.
Same with books in other languages.
I only use e books because they allow me to read what I want with piracy.

[Anonymous No.18957891]

>>18957855
Fuck off back to 4channel.co.br ya trashcunt nobody invited ya anyways ya fucking peckermelon

[Anonymous No.18957900]

>>18957891
Echame po, chanero culiao

[Anonymous No.18958189]

Literally just bought the KOBO Forma yesterday, waiting for it in the mail.

I'm travelling a lot for work, and it will just make my life so much easier for carrying books, reading on planes, reading in the airport. I've been wanting to read The Count of Monte Cristo for months now, but I don't want to lug a piece of lumber through airport security every couple of days.

Plus my paperbacks arent IPX7 rated for when i go to the beach.

Lot of pros to the ereader, though I would still prefer to read a physical book. Can't deny the convenience of the ereader though

[Anonymous No.18958290]

Currently use the books app on my iPad for reading. Would I be better off getting a Kobo?

[Anonymous No.18958306]

>>18957855
>20 dollars
That's not a lot

[Anonymous No.18958335]

>>18958290
It would be much lighter and you wouldn't have a light pointed at your eyes the whole time you are reading.

[Anonymous No.18958372]

>>18954024
>he thinks he can find every single book on the internet
>he fell for the "all the human knowledge at your fingertips" - meme
I never thought that I would ever type this with genuine heart and unironically but : NGMI

[Anonymous No.18958417]

>>18957855
>Nigger I live in fucking south america
I'm sorry.

[Anonymous No.18958569]

>>18954003
Pocketbook Touch.
HD if you want audio out for music, audiobooks or speech synthesis.
Lux if you don't (but get an sd card slot instead).

[Anonymous No.18959343]

>>18958372
It literally is IF your goal is reading non-fiction or the classics. You can find most of what you need from sites like libgen or the pirate bay which is common knowledge for most users of this site. For authors with less of a following you're out of luck but there are alternatives that come pretty close with some searching.

[Anonymous No.18959459]

>>18958306
In South America, for a book in the public domain, not even a nice edition?
Yes it is.

[Anonymous No.18960048]

>>18958290
The whole point of an ebook is backlighting, so your eyes don't burn like when you try to read a PDF

[Anonymous No.18960277]

>>18953957
My kindle is too small, indeed its been convenient to have while travelling but I want something more...

recommend me some new tried and true shit please?

[Anonymous No.18961034]

>>18960277
Kobo Elipsa
Boox Note Air
Boox Max Lumi

[Anonymous No.18961195]

Kobo
Onyx for A4 PDF (also supports EPUB)

[Anonymous No.18961243]

I was close to buying one but realized I couldn't bring it on my job and I didn't need another screen to stare at

[Anonymous No.18961384]

>>18961243
It's completely different to a computer or tablet screen

[Anonymous No.18961391]

>>18960277
A book

[Anonymous No.18961403]

I bought a Kobo once but ended up going back to my iPad.

The Kobo didn't display PDFs well and was sluggish to use. The iPad weighs a bit more, but not enough to be less comfortable, and the battery life is about the same, not to mention the iPad is more useful in general.

I don't get why you'd want a dedicated eReader if you have an iPad. Are the dedicated page-turning buttons really that good?

The only thing that I dislike about the iPad is how large the bezel is.

[Anonymous No.18961404]

IKR lol plebs.

the only trouble is what to read next with the abundance of stuff out there.

[Anonymous No.18961408]

>>18954024
Why does it only have 23 lines for text?

[Anonymous No.18961423]

An ereader? No anon you need TWO ereaders. TWICE the power. TWICE the amount of reading. BUY BUY BUY BUY

[Anonymous No.18961433]

>>18961403
> and the battery life is about the same
You can get over a month of battery out of a Kobo. Try keeping the light and WiFi turned off.
Most people don't have an iPad and the iPad pales in comparison to E Ink displays. You can get readers with more functionality like Boox if you want that but many people just want something for reading.

[Anonymous No.18961686]

I'm thinking about buying Tolino Shine 3 -- it's basically the copy of Kobo Clara HD but I'm currently in Germany and it's under a different name here.

What are your thoughts on Kobo Clara HD, anons?

[Anonymous No.18961837]

>>18961403
ngmi

[Anonymous No.18963089]

I lost my e-reader today. I spent 2 hours looking for it but it's just up and vanished. I've only had it for a month.

[Anonymous No.18963149]

>>18954003
they're all functional. but the technology has barely improved in ten years. it's not an industry that will see any technological pushes, and there'll never be a standardised format.

[Anonymous No.18963197]

>>18961403
>he used his e-reader for .pdfs
please continue wasting all your money on apple products

[Anonymous No.18963453]

>>18961686
You can get the Clara HD in Germany. Tolino run their own, worse operating system.
Clara HD is an excellent entry level choice.

[Anonymous No.18963865]

>>18963089
Shit dude I hope you'll find it soon. Unless it was an amazon device, then you got lucky and now can get a proper device.

[Anonymous No.18964963]

>>18953957
which e-readers have built-in translation devices?

[Anonymous No.18965261]

>>18964963
kindle paperweight does

[Anonymous No.18965309]

>>18961408
Dyslexic Chad mode is activated

[Anonymous No.18965354]

>>18954024
>Being poor
No buddy, you are ngmi.

[Anonymous No.18965445]

What ebook reader has the best battery life?

[Anonymous No.18965502]

>>18965354
consoom

[Anonymous No.18965582]

>>18964963
On Pocketbook you can sideload as many dictionaries as you want, including bilingual ones.