eReader

It's still something that's only really good for technical work. For reading, and for reading convenience, it's a bust. Being able to take your library with you is an e-reader's biggest selling point. You can't slip something that big in your coat pocket, or a day bag or whatever.

>It's still something that's only really good for technical work.
Why? I have a lot of fiction books that are bigger than that.
The entire device is only as big as an A4 page so it fits in my bag just fine. Plus it's extremely light for the size.

Don't knock it until you've actually tried it. You can use it with tablet arms, page turners and similar equipment that's just silly on small models.
I have a 7.8" reader but I stopped using it since it doesn't really have any advantages.

I regularly read on the bus.

If you can't afford it then just say so instead of sour graping about their usability.

The thing is also, I wouldn’t buy a boox either, and you going ‘Oh you don’t like it cuz you’re poor haha’, ignoring all the points people listed against boox, is you being shallow and thinking ‘if I just waste enough money on it it’ll be best quality experience’, now trying to convince everyone else of just that.

“Don’t knock it until you tried it!” is a bad argument in general. Anyone falling for it will far for the same buyer’s remorse as you do.
>“Electric cars are a waste and nowhere as efficient? Don’t knock it till you tried it!”
>“Eating bugs makes you sick to the stomach? Don’t knock it till you tried it!”

Don’t hate others for having made better decisions than you. You, too, are mistaking quality for the price-point of a device.

That's a pretty big argument though. The whole selling point of ereaders and tablets is their portability. Take that away and what do you have - an inferior PC. You can buy a 13 inch Chromebook with a touchscreen for the same price or slightly less.

I would like bigger ereaders for comics at least

Because books are not the size of tablet screens. Someone who reads books will be uncomfortable with a device for book reading that’s not as comfortable to hold and carry as one. Also is utterly frail due to size and width. I don’t need a reader with the advantages of ‘oooh apps, ooh notetaking oooh documents’ when I can buy a tablet for the same price and that can do these specific things vastly better; and no, the eink screen isn’t a good selling point to get a reader for these features.

When the argument for knocking it without trying is that it's expensive, it's clear that they hate it because they are poor.
There's no real argument against a 13" reader beyond it not fitting in your pants.

>It’s clear that they hate it because they are poor
>*Hasn’t read a single argument in the thread*
I have an actual tablet for office and study work. You’re trying everything you can to justify a poor investment, when it’s really useless: People aren’t buying it. Even when they’re becoming more accessible. It’s a niche for those that like comics or want to use a reader for the office, which is a microscopic fraction compared to the people looking for e-readers for book reading.

How are paperbacks in any way relevant? Is all you read the side of an Oxford dictionary?

Are you intentionally picking bad examples?

What bad examples, when you want to convince an internet board to buy a reader the price of an IPad Pro?
The philosophy that you somehow get better quality with a higher price is consumerist, and these modern consumerist examples fit, hence I chose them

That is on you, most people don’t. It’s a weird and disconnected way to think that your average reader will have books of that size.

I’m not denying the niche demand for bigger e-readers doesn’t exist, but that it stays a small demographic for a reason. No one’s insulting you for your preferences, but you saying they’re somehow ‘objectively better, just that these peasants are too poor to get it and have too small bags’ is what makes you sound unreasonable.

But you started going off on how a 13” is generally a better e-reader option, when it’s not for the reasons we’ve talked about. A pdf is made for the size of the original, and having the closest to it is the rule. Too close it’ll compress, too big it’ll stretch out. ‘the bigger the better’ is at most, only for the PDFs that ARE the size of A4s, which I’m not talking about because I talk about the general demographic readers.

Sure, it doesn’t harm your ability, but the comfort is where most people tend to turn away from bigger readers, me included even if I could’ve just gotten it.

>”Most people”
Who? The Boox subreddit?
Most people I talk to would love to have something as neatly portable as a common size reader, because they can travel with it whenever, can treat it like a book too due to size.

And no, because again, the functionalities of a 13” model I’ve got on a tablet already.

The plus-point is that it fits in your hand. And so far, few are agreeing with your boox tablet size ereader advocacy

>two ereaders
>identical price
>identical specs
>except one fits in your pocket and the other is the size of a textbook
gee which should I get, what a decision

Books, Black person

If they are the same price why not? Portability is the top selling point of ereaders. You can carry a thousand books in your pocket or carry a thousand books in a slightly larger than A4 device. You can read both at home. One fits easily in the palm of your hand. As for the other, please upload a photo showing your comfortable reading posture with a foot-long screen in your handS.

Not him but most people, when they say they read, don’t mean comics

But anon…the standard ones you can hold and flip pages with just one hand…all at once too..and they’re not even a foot across…

Very few people are going to upload pictures of themselves on the internet, let along on IQfy.
Why do you even need proof that it's possible to hold something the size of a sheet of paper? People read newspapers that are significantly larger without problems.

Do you have trouble holding anything larger than a postcard?
Maybe you can use one of these.
Add a remote control and you can stop moving your limbs altogether.

I fail to see how anybody has trouble holding something the size of a sheet of paper unless they are literal babies.
Common trade paperback books are the same size when opened.

Depends on the manga but you can get multiple spreads in a single chapter. They're a lot more common than color pages.
Famous authors have also stated that their works are intended to be read in double-page mode.

>I started with Just an iPhone, but then iPhone XS came along and I upgraded, still not big enough, I need it to be the size of a tablet, why do they make phones so small-

So far, that’s how your thinking comes off.
Probably no one can relate to you.

And you know that’s not the main reason, but one of them, and especially one against buying a reader as bulky as yours. If you need something that big that’s your matter, but acting as a free advertisement bot for a reader format people just aren’t interested in(nevermind that no one recommends your big boox for Manga, or anything above 13”), is sad.

You can have double page mode on a 6" or even on a smartphone but it mainly becomes usable on a bigger format.

>Misc aren’t buying it just cuz they’re poor peasants >:(

You’re back at it again. It gets tiring arguing on the point after everyone told you why that argument is nonsense and you just pretend to forget those and needing to have it chewed again

Don’t theorise, do just one google search on e-readers for mangas and tell us when yours comes up

>”Maybe you should look in my obscure forum for answers instead of those of the general public, fricking normies don’t know whats good. Neither does IQfy when they don’t want my newspaper-sized reader. And saying ‘mangas’- pff, you moron pleb thats not the plural” t.

You are honestly the best advertisement against 13” readers, now I know how hard one copes after buying one

The iPad Pro doesn't really compare. It's still a LCD screen (possible OLED in the future) and you are limited to Apple's appstore.
The Apple Pencil has a poor writing feel compared to the options for ERM and needs charging.

For note taking I want a display I can look at without tons of reflections or having to ramp up the lighting to unpleasant levels.
The latency for handwriting is now around 30ms, barely notable for most people. What's relevant for the writing feel is friction. Apple means writing with plastic on a smooth glassy screen while e-notes use felt nibs on a rougher surface.
Most stores are actually present on the Appstore, it's things like Tachiyomi that people care about and don't get.

Even an extra screen layer isn't going to turn the plastic tip into felt.
>No one’s using a tablet for office purposes out in the sun.
And why do you think that is?

Do you ever leave your basement?

Because they don’t work in the office, when they’re out in the sun.

You trying to turn it into some ‘gotcha’, thinking people will start working outside just because their screen isn’t as reflective anymore is disconnected from office environments.

>Debates the feel of a tip
Just to show you the silliness of that argument:Don’t knock it till you tried it.

That is your personal experience, it reflects nothing but your own. Doesn’t even speak for universities where, since covid, everyone’s gotten a tablet to take notes on.
>People get them because they don’t know any better, how can they not see the enlightenment in a functionally much more limited, slower device for their average purposes. Why do they go get something everyone agrees is good, and optimal for their purposes that aren’t even reading

Go work in the sun to your heart’s content, but most people, really, just don’t.

>Thinks he is in any position to criticise consumerism with his, basically, lesser but just as expensive and matte IPad with a felt nib on the pen, see

And also, the notion that “Bigger is better! More bells and whistles are better! Pen Touch camera phone appstore VR video(etc etc etc) capabilities are better!!!” Is…just consumerist, overall.

You’re still utterly dramatic about the reflections, which I get if your habit is pointing the tablet directly at the sun while you work outside. It still doesn’t speak for anyone else.

>Watches…videos, on a matte reader? Thinking the video streaming apps are better made for that than tablets?

>Criticizes recharging like Boox isn’t taking up much more charge than the average ereader

>”All these students who are used to doing research are just stupid, not seen the enlightenment yet”

At this point your arguments are, to say it like it is, clusterfrick. None apply to an average reader, but to you specifically. It is again fine if you’re just that turned off by everything else, but it’s no experience anyone else can share

>The reflections are an issue indoors unless it's extremely dark. For brightly lit lecture halls etc it's extremely annoying.

Not really, dunno what disco shows your lecture halls are though so sorry for that. And the light of a tablet isn’t that blinding, eyeballs burning and skin melting sensation you make it out to be either, otherwise someone out of the hundreds of students would’ve stumbled upon your enlightened alternative

What makes you assume people aren’t watching videos on a TV? Why is watching videos on a tablet your point of critique when watching it on a Boox e-reader is by no means better?

>Manga are at least 5% color,
More like 1%. For compiled volumes the color pages are at the start so you can easily look them up on a color monitor while reading the rest on an ereader.
The 13" modules are Carta, the latest models use Carta 1200 and Carta 1250.

It’s recommended to read manga on a normal sized reader precisely due to a similiar size, your 13” stretches it out as a pdf. Your argument for bigger readers for comics only makes sense if we’re talking about Western, A4-sized Comics

>best manga are fully in color
Into the trash you go

>and what's with all the ghosting?
E ink has staining where old content doesn't fully disappear. You normally counter it by doing a full refresh either manually or automatically every few pages.

Yes, Boox has extra modes for faster refreshes. It can be useful for navigating certain apps or if you really need to watch a video but I wouldn't use it for normal reading.

I had it on a faster mode in that picture, yeah. Forgot to change it. When I read I put it back in Normal mode and the ghosting goes away. The faster the mode the more ghosting.

The Poke 3 is from 2020.
Normally I'd assume he's running a third party app which tend to have worse ghosting than the first party ones but the bookmark is from Neoreader.
My guess is that it's set to speed mode.

It's not permanent and for reading books it's a complete nonissue.

Amazon has their own DRM that they use on all their ebooks, which means you cannot view Kindle books without a Kindle or the Kindle app.
Kobo is easier and better, as they accept every file. But DRM and other faculties can still be detected, thus remove the metadata for safekeeping. You don't have to do this, I just do it for OPSEC and precaution.

If I read a book that I enjoy and that is worth it, I buy it. It's like having a free trial for the whole book lol.

>I wouldn't say smaller devices are more convenient.
They are more convenient to store on a smaller bag for example. But I understand your point.
>Having a lot of screen real estate is very useful.
Well it depends, why would you want a 8" over a 6", what exactly does that difference offer?
>Portability and price are the main advantages.
Yes, I agree.

it hardly matters what files it accepts when you can easily convert any epub with calibre. import book, right-click, send specific format to device, azw3, done.

Didn't know about that. But it could still have formating issues. An epub is easier to find and is just "plug-and-go" on a Kobo.

You can still view a lot of text on a 6" screen, and flipping more pages/easier readability mentioned are not really an inconvenience. I do agree with your comments though.
I never had to zoom in unless it is a pdf, there are certain ones that are a bit less optimized but still functional. But this is an issue on the pdf itself, not Kobo's.
8" is liken unto a book's size, a 6" is liken unto a pocket book. I guess it comes down to personal preference, if you are or not willing to give more money for a 2" difference (and a few more features).

Name the full color manga you supposedly read.

Are we referring to the same post?

>best manga are fully in color
Into the trash you go

refuted that the best manga are full color. Do you actually read manga at all?

If we can agree that full color manga barely exists and doesn't represent the best of the medium then there's nothing left to discuss.

>not for manga
Yes for manga. We're talking about manga you double Black person.
>the only thing dude porn
You sound like a fricking moron and I fricking take this shit personally.

Why? You already claimed they do not exist. When that's the current average for modern releases. This implies you don't believe me. Not that you did your own research and concluded this fact.

If we can agree that full color manga barely exists and doesn't represent the best of the medium then there's nothing left to discuss.

Why can you not respond to the contents of my post? And how can something that barely exist not also represent the best of something? That is objectively speaking a non sequitur.

>When that's the current average for modern releases.
Here's the current state for the main publishers:
Koudansha - x1600
Shogakukan - x2048
Shueisha - x1200
Akita Shoten - x2048
Square Enix - x1920
Kadokawa - x2048
Ichijinsha - x2048
Hakusensha - x1200
Futabasha - x1600
Houbunsha - x1920
Bunkasha - x1200
Shonengahosha - x1920
Takeshobo - x2048
Nihonbungeisha - x1200
Shinchosha - x1920
Micromagazine - x1600
Leed-sha - x2064
Kill Time Communication - x1920
Mag Garden - x1920
Flex Comics - x1920

These companies are responsible for most non-pornographic manga. The numbers are for tankobon, magazines can be the same or worse, for instance Shogakukan or Akita Shoten still use x1200 for their magazines.