E-Reader thread? Does anyone like/use them?I’m looking to get my first one, and the general recommendation seems to be the Kindle Paperwhite.How easy is it to hack? Is it even worth hacking? I generally don’t mind paying for books if they’re formatted correctly (I’ve found some pirated copies over the years that have had horrific formatting, almost to the point of looking like some schizo’s journal).
>>25251403You can buy one running Android or Linux and that way you dont need to hack it
>>25251403As a nocturnal person that loves the darkness I love reading on my Kindle. But honestly Kindle is pretty fucking trash, I was surprised at how little Amazon offers, you don't even have a sepia option for the screen color. But since you said you were going to hack then it's worth it, it's pretty easy to hack, but you have to follow the instructions step-by-step, just search for the site. If you're willing to buy anything other than Kindle then there are some Chinese brands that offer some really good ereaders, just search for "ereaders list reddit" on google, this will show you a comparison table between all ereaders available on the market.
>>25251445For the colors, I’ve seen the paperwhite having some sort of warm backlight, is that the sepia tone you’re talking about?Have you tried reading any graphic novels on kindle?
>>25251403It's ridiculous how expensive e-ink screens are but yes, I like my paperwhite. Better reading experience than my phone, and I just "send to kindle" stuff from AA or wherever.
Are there any straight up android tablets with e-ink displays?
I just download shit from Internet Archive and read it on my PC or phone.
>>25251566Yes, Bigme is one of them
>>25251403I've heard that the japanese brand is the best, but it is more expensive. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is the alright, one negative is that it cannot read epubs so you will have to use calibre to change the file type to mobi or azw. You also need to run it in airplane mode always on if you have any books that are not from the amazon store, otherwise they will get deleted from your device at random. As a person who would never buy ebook that he can get for free and as a person who would never browse internet on the device I don't care at all. In fact running airplane mode you don't get ads on the lockscreen so it's win win situation.
>>25251403>E-Reader thread? Does anyone like/use them?I have Boox Note Air 2 Plus. Being able to annotate PDF on 10.3 was worth it.
>>25251403my kobo came with a credit card skimmer and gigabytes of tranny porn
>>25251503Different anon here but no, its not sepia. The warm backlight is a soft yellow, and it's great. I debated paperwhite vs. normal kindle thinking "oh my last ereader didn't have a backlight, I don't really need it" but it's really convenient and I don't know how I'd go without it. I use darkmode every chance I get on other devices but I actually do prefer the yellow warming light for kindle. Protip: make the margins smaller so your eyes have to cover less distance side to side. Another tip: kindle paperwhite for kids is the same as the normal one, it just comes with a free case and no ads. You just set it up as a normal adult device and it gets the exact same features. One thing that's frustrating is that if you haven't jailbroken your kindle you have to store all your books on amazon's cloud and can't transfer locally via usb. So technically if you fill up your kindle with pirated books they could deactivate your amazon account or something I believe. But I've never heard about this happening to anyone ever and I've sent books from libgen to mine for years now and haven't had a problem. >>25251607Wrong, you can use epubs now on kindle and have been able to for at least a few years now.
>>25251403I have two, and I pretty much don't use them at all. Sounds gay but it saps something out of it for me. In recent years, I've pretty much exclusively used them when I'm traveling for work.
>>25251403just buy a kobo
>>25251403If you don't use one you're drastically limiting your reading options
Kobo libra 2 is the best ereader ever made but it's out of production. Don't buy the color versions they are all crap and it's bizarre they are even legally allowed to sell that broken technology.
I bought a Supernote Manta and use it a lot. Really fucking expensive though, so you better like to write.
>>25251819Nothing broken about it, it's beautiful.
I use a kindle paperwhite 10th gen with koreader
>>25251403Newer Amazon kindle software versions don't have jailbreaks out, so you can't hack it yet.Software/UI for different ereaders don't matter because you should immediately install koreader on whatever you get. I wouldn't get a more obscure brand just because it'll have less community support for koreader. I went with kobo because it's pretty popular and doesn't require jailbreaking or anything like that. It's more expensive though.
>>25251403I have the Kindle PW7 but i barely read on it. The material is nice. But do not get any Kindle..you will hate it. They force Ads on the device and recently removed the basic option that would show your current books cover img on your screen,instead they force random ads.My solution was this:Factory reset the device (you can't downgrade the version though which is required to hack)Filled the device with files until 10mb space left (to stop it from auto updating)Now turn on wifi and login your device ( to get rid off the annoying pop up message every sec)Once you've logged in and got rid off the pop up message, you can now remove the space holder files and go airplane mode forever.
>>25252380Kindles aren't cheap enough anymore to bother, anyway.
>>25251403I have a few e-readers. My current is a Polaroid LCD model that runs off of 6 AA batteries, but I have a Pocketbook Lux Basic 4 coming in the mail tomorrow. E-ink, frontlight and SD card which the modern Kindle lacks the latter of. Excited for it.
>>25251403Nobody likes them, they're just an empty consumerist fart bubble filled with real and metaphorical carcinogens. If you're asking about the formatting of books the issue is that nobody reads anything on Amazon they just buy it based on the title and let it sit in their content library forever, so they definitely push "updates" to the formatting and spelling, far worse than anything we ever dealt with in revised editions with their retarded additions, now in fact they will "accidentally" upload the contents of some fast food joints point of sale which modifies all the formatting into nutritional databases and say "whoopsy, so sorry, our AI did that yu'know how things are now, tee hee" and six weeks later they come out with an article about how fast food point of sale should absolutely be printed in books, it's not a mistake, it's what the author intended, and it absolutely can be hacked, as just last week a graduate student from Purdue hacked her way into my offline copy of Brothers K, and you wonder how they do it, well they insert microscopic batteries and antennaes into everything so if you have the credentials, and they'll give them to anyone these days with practically no oversight cause everyones so lazy and just lets the AI run the vetting processes cause it's cheap and low effort, then you can pretty much hack yourself into any book you want by pushing an update with manifested intention with a diode hooked up to a gas station cigarette lighter. Save yourself the headache and get a device that they can't brick when they arbitrarily decide they don't like you or want to keep you as a customer when you read more than a quarter of the crap you buy, so it won't have any transistor molecular gas chambers in it, or "accidentally" dim the screen in the sunlight, aka the beach reading essentials: a sun hat, a pair of light adjusting sunglasses, and a good old fashioned paperback book with a real spine and real, tactile feedback.
>>25251503If you wanna read graphic novels you should buy an ereader that has a micro SD slot since most mainstream ereaders like Kindle and Kobo have very small storage.
