I freaking LOVE this thing. It takes all the weight out of reading. Like you can look at serious stuff the same way you would read an internet shitpost. I've been glancing at more words that i did before thanks to my E-reader. Now if you excuse me, i'm going to read the SHIT out of the next Ebook on my virtual bookshelf (which contains over a thousand books i downloaded in the last week btw).
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me too, i already read before having my e-reader, but now i easily double (or maybe thriple) the ammount of reading i do per year
and the best? it's all free! the little money i spent in this thing is meaningless when compared with all the savings i made reading books that would cost me a 16th part of the e-reader itself
this has to be one of the best purchases of my life
>cost
I simply pirate all my books and load to ereader. I have 3 ereaders, one big, one small without touch screen and one small with touch screen. Mostly using the small without touch. 1508 books in e-library.
damn, thedse Ai go brazy these days
Bro the bezos bots are actually convincing me
i know i look like a shill, but notice i talked about an "e reader", not a kindle e reader specifically, so i'm not shilling for amazon, any e reader will do
Kindle really is the best, though. (No I am not an AI!)
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AI or not, Kindle is one thing Amazon did great and I hope they will manufacture it for at least 1000 years
it's simple, to the point, and just works. what do you need more?
I spoiled myself and bought a Kindle Oasis. I sure love it--weighted perfectly in my hands and I can read in the bath.....mmm and there's bluetooth and Audible audiobook service!
it's actually really nice for walking on the treadmill and reading at the same time. I do most of my reading like that now.
i do most of the reading on the bus while i'm going and coming from college, it's incredible the amount of free time i have while on the bus, i only realized this with my e-reader
i even wanted to do a long distance travel by bus just to force myself to read and study even more in the bus, it's comfortable and efective
wait until you get beat up by morons just because they think it's funny
This is not a problem is civilized Nordic countries.
um, never happened to me???
It, indeed, is. Infinitely comfier read = you read more, love that thing to bits
>t. Started and finished book on long-distance bus trip
>kindle
nobody cares you marketing team homosexual please have a nice day at the nearest opportunity, cant believe a thread died for this advertisement shit
e-ink is genuinely good tech for reading and notetaking though, and kindle products are far from the best models on the market
it's a god-send item for readers
i can not reccommend e-readers enough to anyone who reads or WANTS to read, it makes it so easy it's unbelievable
I have an old kobo. It's actual ass. Everything takes forever to load.
Got it cheap though so can't complain
I really like how they have timers for how long it might take you to finish. Really helps me with finishing reading sessions, I've found.
i like that they come with a build-in dictionary and that you can also underline passages that you find interesting, that's why you can study with the thing
the formating of some of the documents though... it bugs to me when i try and convert txt files to mobi files through calibre (maybe my archive just got corrupt, but it happened and i couldn't use the underline function on it properly)
How long does a Kindle last? I heard after 5 years they all fail regardless of how good you take care of them.
Bought mine in 2011. Bloody thing still works. Battery certainly lost some of it's capacity, but not to the point of being unusable.
mine died in about 7 years, I think, but I used it every day
Is an e-book worth it?
use libgen and you'll recoup the price in 15 minutes
TOTALLY WORTH IT, i'm being sincere here, if you read or WANT to read, it will be one of the best purchases of your life
>OMG YES YES YES BUY BUY BUY BUY AHHHGHGH IM BUYINGGUUUUMING AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>what is enjoying a good purchase
who is more of a consumerist, me, who can read hundreds of free books for years after spending a little bit more on a e-reader, or you, who just wants to spend, spend and spend to just read like 30 books in the same amount of time?
unless you're a bibliophile reading an electronic book is much more convenient than reading a physical one
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My Kobo Aura has far exceeded my expectations. So far I've read two Sherlock Holmes books, e-girlta, and the Metamorphosis, and it's still on 23% battery life with moderate backlight usage.
Please recommend me a solid e reader. I will only be using it to read, not write.
Any 10 year old non-Kindle piece of crap honestly. You can't drag and drop books onto Kindles without jailbreaking them, so it's easier to just avoid them.
>You can't drag and drop books onto Kindles without jailbreaking them
You can. However they don't take epubs, you have to convert them first. Which is enough of a reason to go for a Kobo or whatever anyway.
i have one of the newer kindles and you can do this.
just open up calibre (the software), add your books there (epub format is prefered to txt, doc, or other formats) and right-click "sent do device"
easy as pie, it takes no time (except for huuuuge books, like the bible or les miserables, then it can take like 1 or 2 minutes tops)
I've been using kindle for almost a decade and I feel like switching to other brand mainly because I want to pirate some books
How does pirating works on Kobo and Boox?
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and all I've done is drag and drop ebooks onto it via USB. It reads them without giving a frick about where you got it.
You can pirate on Kindle you know.
Anyway it's the same for all of them:
Download Calibre
Drag your pirated books into Calibre
Tell Calibre to send them to your device
That's it. Book piracy is so easy that it's amazing that people buy ebooks at all.
Can I do this on my non-jb Kindle Oasis ?
Yup.
>goes a decade without realizing
Lmao
I've never really cared about it until a year ago approximately. I'm fed up with digital shit, the only books I'm buying are the physical ones.
sadly it doesn't support footnotes so you can read books but not biblios with greek and latin quotes everywhere. bilingual books aren't possible either
i'm moronic, care to explain?
On e-readers, notes normally at the bottom of the page often get pushed at the end of the chapter or of the book. You thus have to go back and forth to read them. Pic related is a comparison.
>he actually answered me
thanks anon i'll keep that in mind, have a good one
I don't know about that particular model of ereader but on Kobos, tapping on a footnote marker will open a popup with the footnote inside instead of taking you to the end of the book.
Which is still not ideal, don't get me wrong.
Kindle or Kobo?
Kobo every time.
>no audible
>no goodreads integration
>he needs worthless online services on his book reading device
>no goodreads integration
I use both Kobo and Goodreads. How does this interaction work? It updates reading status automatically when you finish the book on reader? Idk, I can easily live without that.
Are you moronic? Kobo of course
Is Kobo truly worth the money?
I got my first cheap Kindle with my first paycheck a few years ago because there were no other brands available in my country at the time. I wanted a Kobo with buttons.
I'm considering getting one just so I can read the right side of pages comfortably in bed. Which e-reader does IQfy recommend?
Doesn't matter. Just look up the slightly different features each one has and decide how much money you're willing to spend.
I only want one to read rare/expensive books mostly available in PDFs. So I need one with a big enough screen but can't figure out which to choose. Anyone have experience with optimal pdf reading on ereaders? I just want to be able to drag and drop, no converting.
I've had good experiences with Boox Max. You can adjust a lot on the fly to improve the experience, e.g. brighten the background or increase contrast.
Think the 10.3'' boox note air 2 plus would be sufficient for pdf? The max looks nice but seems hella pricey.
I am interested in this as well. Currently, thinking of buying the Note Air 2 Plus model because the screen seems big enough for .pdf files to properly display themselves. Also, note taking capabilities seems good as well since I like underlining stuff and writing on margins.
I have watched some of this guy videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St5bZDCWRpE (Note Air 2 Plus)
(Max Lumi 2)
My only concern is lifespan. If I'm going to drop hundreds on a big enough reader it better last at least 10+ years.
Yeah, do not know about that, but I understand. Frying that much money better guarantee a long lifespan. Maybe somebody has the device and can comment more on that.
My biggest concern is regarding reading .pdf files. 13.3 inches on Lumi vs 10.3 on Air is quite a difference in size. What I wondering if Air's size is good enough for comfortable reading of .pdf files, without too much resizing and playing with settings.
Is there any program that could automatically optimise some epubs to make them load faster? I got a study Bible from the Kindle Store and used KindleUnpack to convert AZW3->epub, but the epub it gives me takes no joke like 20 minutes to load on my Kobo Clara HD with KOReader. and when it finishes, I've lost 20% battery on that alone.
i don't know, i transfered my bible to my kindle using calibre, it took a while to do the conversion (althought it was already an epub file, that was converted to a mobi file) but it worked fine after it finished in my device
maybe try using calibre
KindleUnpack is a Calibre plug-in that (in theory) repacks the AZW3 (basically just an epub in a Mobipocket container) into epub without the need to rewrite an epub document from scratch. Still, either way I have issues loading it.
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/AZW3
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/KindleUnpack