I bought a kobo ereader recently and what even is the point of it? I went to the kobo book store website and it's all just smut and slop. I can't find Jung to put on it or the books I want, and when I do find it as ebook it's like proprietary and 10-50 dollars. Why would I pay money for a book I can't own? >inb4 get books from project gutenberg or internet archivethe internet archive books are not proper epubs the files are huge and all fucked up and project gutenberg doesnt have the books i want.also fuck kobo for making me make another account on something that doesn't need account. and fuck captcha.
>>25300221>it's all just smut and slopAKA what 99% of readers want to readYou are not the target audience
>>25300221l2pirate ebooks zoomerhttps://annas-archive.gl/
people should have to go through a computer literacy test before being allowed to buy electronics
>>25300221dude you can pirate every single book that's been published ever and put them all on your e reader. you're fucking retarded if you didn't realize this
>>25300221>OP can't pirate
>>25300221>doesn't know how to pirate and convert a filetypeEmbarrassing.
I love these little magical tablets like you wouldn't believe. >lightweight, as easy as holding an old calculator>no pages to flip through>no dust and mold>fits my entire library>can read in public without being performative>can read books that cost half my monthly wages>can read books I can't find in my country's marketI love them so much I buy physical books and still download the epub to read it on the e-reader. The only problem is reading history books where you need to constantly reference dates, names, locations but I just read those in physical form. E-ink is the greatest invention of the century.
>>25300228This thread literally only exists because OP doesn't know about Anna's Archive lol. Embarrassing.
>>25300241Electronics shouldn't have become so user friendly. There needs to be a certain level of difficulty to use electronics.Sadly, the race to have the most user friendly devices will always win, even though it's at the cost of your brain.
Why the fuck would you buy e-books you stupid nigger-nigger-nigger. Holy Niggers.
>>25300221Are you retarded?>open-slum. org
>>25300221I like them for when I go camping. I charge my kindle before and don’t have to worry about battery life.
>>25300373I had to go through 700 books in my parents dusty and moldy garage, and with an ereader I can read every single one of them. It takes up almost no space whatsoever and I don't have to worry about any dust, mold, or poop on any of the books. Its perfect.
I have found every book I've ever wanted to read on Zlib in either epub or pdf format that fit my old kindle perfectly. Not sure wtf OP is going on aboutThat being said, my favorite way to read a book is in an aged paperback format. Something about the feel and smell of older paperback is comforting.
>buys a product without doing proper research>despite the fact that this board has had ebook threads consistently >thinks he has to buy books (LMAO)>too stupid to see where to find pirated books>struggle with catpcha toojust go back to your tiktok you little shit.
i think you should kill yourself, op
>>25300221>I don't know how to use a search engine and I'm retarded Thanks for letting us know
When it comes to physical books I just buy them. Sometimes I borrow them from the library.For ebooks it's kind of 50/50. I buy 50% of the ebooks online - the other 50% I do pirate. It is true what the other anons say: You can get any book pirated ( = for free but illegal). Like I said, I still buy some and don't pirate everything, because I want to support the authors I like :-)
What e-reader to get bros
>>25300221Standard Ebooks is a website that provides well formatted ebooks for works that are in public domain.This will likely not have all of the books that you want, but hopefully it will have some.
>>25301702I'd say anything but Kindle. Personaly I use Tolino, but good ones are Kobo and Pocketbook too.
>>25300228>>25300241>>25300342>>25300352>>25300446>>25300516>spoonfeeding summer
>>25300221>storelmao you are meant to fill it with all the edgelord pirated content you can retard
>>25300221Why would you ever buy these if not to pirate? You failed the intelligence check.
I just use the kindle and nook apps on my phone. I don't know why you guys have to be so gay and cringe and insufferable and have to purchase a standalone computer tablet just to read digital books.
>>25302298Because we actually know what we are talking about. Also we value our eyesight
>>25302320>m-m-muh eyesight!Never heard of brightness settings and eye comfort shield, huh idiot?
>>25302298what's gay and cringe is reading on a phone screen. bad for your eyes and you have to contend with all the *bing bing wahoo* attention-stealing app notifications.
>>25302328See>>25302325
>>25302325E-ink has a very different feel to it. It's not light-emitting in the way a your ordinary phone-screen is even when said phone-screen is on its lowest brightness settings with a blue-light filter to boot.
>E-ink (digital letters) has a different FEEL you just don' unnerstan.. Schizophrenic.
>>25302383It work entirely different than pixels
>>25302298>>25302325>>25302383>bad faith backtalkingit's new to 4chan and likely underage
>Nooooo, you called me a schizo! You are underage actually!!!LMAO, cope.
>>25300221I got a kindle after my wrist started to hurt after reading GoT when I was a teenI probably already saved triple of the Kindle's price with piracy
>>25302444>I probably already saved triple of the Kindle's price with piracyhell yeah
>>25301844Yeah, you're right, I'll do better next time. Don't know what I was thinking, I think I was feeling charitable because he bought a Kobo and not another fucking Kindle. It was a mistake.
>>25301832>PocketbookLove my Pocketbook. Cheap, great, SD card slot and zero need for internet or accounts. Reads well too.
>>25302402>>>/v/
>>25302631Just came from there, lol. I'm 35 though and I've been posting on /lit/ longer than (You)
why do people pay money for these things though if you can just read on your phone? Do these ereaders even allow you to download note-taking apps like Obsidian?
>>25302383I mean, I could be schizophrenic; I won't argue that point. But, as I was swilling my meds around, I just wondered, have you ever seen an e-ink display through your own neuro-typical eyes? Or looked up how they work compared to phone/tablet/tv screens? I ask because this seems a strange hill to die on.
>>25302383He's right you insufferable faggot. If you haven't used both before to compare then stfu
My ten year old Kobo is dying. I see the new Kindle scribe is 11 inches, is bigger always better if I read PDFs and am too lazy to process them? I don't need glasses and colour eink sucks.
>>25302931What are the arguments against "Kobo Elipsa 2E" or "PocketBook - InkPad One" ?
>>25302748Stop responding to an obvious newfag who only wants to "debate" his personal opinion while insulting everybody who doesn't agree with his psychosis.
>>25303009There is zero reason to buy the Kobo over the Pocketbook so it is between the Kindle and the Pocketbook. The Kindle has a Higher DPI screen and is bigger. This is because Eink is run like a cartel and Amazon pay for timed exclusivity of the new screens. I don't care about it being locked down since it will be in Airplane mode and get everything through Calibre anyway. Regarding the UI reading PDFs, Kindle is faster and Pocketbook is more customisable, which is odd because the Pocketbook has more RAM and a better processor. Pocketbook seems to suck with optimisation.
>>25302497Fucking kill yourself, parasite
>>25302706How embarrassing.
>>25302931I'm fine with reading on an 8" screen so I prefer my Libra 2 with a larger SD card in it, and KOReader can kind of handle zooming in automatically if it's really necessary
>>25303028Why is Kobo better than PocketBook? I thought they are similar
>>25303363All of Kobos recent models have colour screens nobody wants and they jacked up the prices on the older models. The Elipsa 2e is the best thing they ever made but it was a massive flop for some reason.
Oning a physical, dedicated ereader is tranny-coded behavior.
>>25304714Explain why in detail
>>25304714oh no you're new to 4chan and being intentionally inflammatory D:
>>25300221You get the books on libgen or your library They are easier on the eyes and more portable than a PC or laptop, easier on the eyes than an iPad, larger screen than a phone, easier to store than a physical book
>>25300221you are clearly a mongoloid and that's ok that you at least acknowledge it. LITERALLY DOWNLOAD ANY BOOK YOU LIKE FOR FREE YOU MORON
>>25300221Check out Anna's Archive. There you get any book for free
>>25300221IT Illiterates like you might not be the target audience
>>25303028My Kobo was a gift. I'm getting a Kindle HD for my birthday next month, though.
