What has your experience with e-ink devices been so far as of now the year of our lord 2026?
got a kindle way back when and it's been always good to me. jailbroke it a year or so ago because amazon became annoying with the format that it'd allow to be transferred and it's been even better since.
>>108817504Placebo.Just buy a 13 inch tablet and call it a day.
I got a chink e-ink tablet, reading wise I have no complaints but the writing leaves a lot to be desired, is not a direct transfer, I cant write the same as when I write on paper.When you write on paper you hover the pen just a hair above the paper between strokes, you dont even think about it, but I cant do that on the tablet, I place the pen very much above the screen not touching it and it will still draw, I have to exaggeratedly lift the pen between strokes or else it will leave a bunch of scratchs I didnt mean to do. Which makes writing so fucking slow.
>>108817590I dont know if other brands have this issue or is just my chink tablet
>>108817504bought the small 6 inch Kobo, it's too laggy and touchscreen is trash. Now I read on my iphone with the default books app. So far it's undefeated
>>108817587x6 battery hrs placebo, sure
i got a used kobo sage and installed koreader and syncthing on it. It's pretty ok. The screen size is good enough for single page manga, though I still wish it was bigger for spreads. For actual books it's fine. Though I honestly still do most of my libgen epub reading on my regular phone, because I always have it with me. And in my extreme niche autism, I like reading in bed in complete darkness with red text on oled dark background. With an e-ink screen it's still backlight on black, so it's a giant yellow rectangle compared to the comfy small glowy text.But besides that yea they're decent, but get a used/refurb one. Oh and I also got a cheap chink pen to try out the notetaking on the sage and it's trash. other readers are probably better but sage is too underpowered or just bad software (takes like 60 seconds to export a single page to png)
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The touch gestures on boox are infuriating I wish it had physical buttons
best technology to save your eyes and to stop consuming slop. I use the boox mira pro 25' as my main monitor for a year now. The low refresh rate, response time and the ghosting is a bit annoying tho.
I've used the same 10" Kaleido 3 reader I got three years ago.
Are there decent models with a backlight?
>>108821232no. the technology only allows frontlight dumbdumb
Got a Xteink to read on the go. Really cute device, I love it.
>>108817516>got a kindleDitch Amashit and get a Kobo.
>227ppi What were they thinking?
>libra color arriving tomorrowmy first readerhow disappointed am i going to be with the screen brightness?
I have a Remarkable and it's nice. It's expensive but big, battery lasts, and drawing is responsive. I use it to write my journal and read stuff in bed. It has an interesting third party ecosystem / you can "hack" it.I have a Boox which kinda sucks because it's chinkshit android. Color is overrated IMO. Battery life sucks even with everything off. It does an okay job of turning my handwriting into text.My Kobo Clara works great for pure reading. I take it when I travel. It's what I recommend to anyone looking for just a regular e-Reader.My dad has a Kindle and I would not be caught dead with one.>>108821232The backlight on my Kobo Clara is easy on the eyes and doesn't use much battery.
>>108817596Remarkable has amazing touch pen tech. It's pretty much as close to writing as you can get with the limitations of e-ink we have right now. I have had no problems with it drawing when I don't intend to.
>>108821622Thinking? Its more like>based on E Ink Carta™ 1300They are Norwegians. They are not going to do the negotiation to setup a new production line of displays, they are going to buy off shelf components. as far as possible. It do make me wonder if they are doing 4, 6 or 8 shade levels per pixel.
>>108823204Amazon, Boox or Supernote also use off the shelf parts but they all have 300ppi in their 10" devices.Remarkable actually stands out due to producing usable Gallery 3 devices.e-ink has been stuck at 16 shades of grey for a long time.
>>108817590Sounds like calibration problem on a magnetic digitizer
>>108817504Explain to me please, why the fack e-ink is still so expensive technology?Why the fack there is still no decent AND chip e-ink copybooks that won't charge you for storing your fucking writing?Why the fack e-ink screen are so unpopular in schools and tech jobs?
>>108823434Because they don't have the economy of scale. A small group of people buy e-readers and use them for a decade.Many flat out don't even know they exist. They may have heard of Kindle but even /g/ has posters that think such e-readers use LCD panels. >that won't charge you for storing your fucking writing?That's just Remarkable with their weird idea of a cloud service.
>>108817504ive used a clara hd for a few years upgraded with 128gb storage its a great divice but ive beenn wanting something a bit bigger and colour. just ordered a bigme 7 color. its a bit bigger so should be better for manga. looking at these colour options in the middle price range though the options arent that great. the 7 inch boox and bigme both have upgradeable storage but have shit colours compared to both the kindle colorsoft and the inkpad color 3. if the inkpad had upgradeable storage itd probably be the perfect device. also sucks that kobo has now moved to emmc or i might have gone with a libra colour instead. i dont care about android and as an ereader dont think its worth the battery drain but the android options are the only ones that support sd cards and for manga 16-32gb is jsut not enough
>>108824292>its a bit bigger so should be better for mangaTry 10" instead of such a marginal increase.
>>108824310im not sure if id like something bigger 10inch seems to big to read with comfortably with 1 hand i quite like the size of the clara hd, only wanted something slightly bigger. 10 inch models are also quite expensive dont really want to pay out that much until the colour screens are better it feels like kaleido 3 has been out forever. its been ages since i last looked into coloured e readers but thats seems to be the standard panel still
>>108824366Bigme 7 color is $300. A 10" wouldn't even cost twice as much while offering more than twice as much display real estate.Reading on 13" one handed or hands free is fairly doable. Kaleido 3 is as good as they can get with the color filter. There's no reason for another generation since the only options would be a different compromise between screen darkness and color saturation.
>>108824449i was looking at the boox note air 5 color earlier before ordering the bigme and its £500, bigme i got for £260. thats quite a big price difference for one of my least used devices
