What's the best option these days? I had a 2014 Kindle which was ok for a couple of years, but it was very slow.
Kobo Elipsa 2E unless you're a handlet or have endless free time to tweak KOReader or whatever people do on their chink android tablets
>>25312295I have big hands and I'm fine with tweaking, but I'll look into this anyway, thanks man.
i had the kindle from like 2011-12 right prior to the paperwhite. I finally got a paperwhite last year with the no-ads and i couldnt be happier. I'd stopped using my old kindle for a long time but had started using it again but the thought of no buttons and a backlight were appealing and since im not a moneyless highschooler anymore the few extra bucks for no ads didnt have me cursing the jews
>>25312264paperwhite>>25312330No issue with the ads thing, but I am pretty pissed that they doubled the price. Or, I will be when I have to replace the current one.
>>25312330>>25312337OP here, I'll take a look. I wasn't aware that ads were something to be aware of, WTF!Also, can I still use my own SD card for offline ebooks or is it all online-only DRM nonsense like so many services are these days?
>>25312343kindles don't have SD slots, but you just need anna's archive, so it doesn't matter. Get a paperwhite, put it in airplane mode, and do everything with Calibre. The only ad you have to deal with is the screen saver.
I have a first gen kindle I still use and a kobo clara bw - Though I'd buy the colour option if I bought a kobo again. Try and get one with side controls, it's more comfortable to hold on the side one handed.
>>25312264just get a kobo and save yourself from a lot of headacheI've sage myself, and apart from the battery life being short (~10h), it's simply great.
If you've got no problem fucking around with Calibre, the best options is whatever Kobo suits your usecase. Best time to buy is when Rakuten has the 15% to 20% cashback deal via their browser addon/website. Battery life is great, only downside is lack of auto-brightness on the Kobo Libra Colour at least. Sometimes you get screwed with the panel lottery and you get a few dead pixels, but customer support isn't too bad if you live in the US.I went from a Kindle Colorsoft to a Kobo Libra Colour solely because it's easier to manage a huge library *and* be able to natively use .cbr/.cbz files.Kindle is worth it if you're going to use their marketplace or you get a decent deal but otherwise, it's just a fuckin' headache to deal with. It's not hard to throw whatever books you want on there if you get it from Anna's or elsewhere but you've got to go through a bunch of hoops with Calibre to convert your library if it isn't .epub or .PDF, keeping filesize limits in mind with Send-to-Kindle, and they're going to keep on being pricks about DRM and locking their ecosystem down even more.Upside is, trade-in value is good?Just go with what your budget allows and don't really pay any mind to the Android readers unless you've absolutely got some niche reason for it.
I was just thinking about e readers. I see calibre and koreader get recommended in these sorts of threads, what are their advantages over whatever comes standard on the device and which one is better?Also recommendations on ones with buttons and a larger (8 inch minimum) screen?
>>25312295I use koreader on my kobo :^)>>25312830Calibre is software on your computer. It managers your library of epubs. You can edit metadata, covers, and formatting before sending the book to your e-reader.Koreader is an alternative way to read on your e-reader. It's more customizable, which may or may not matter to you. It's also better for PDFs than the stock reader on kobo.
my kobo came loaded with tranny porn
>>25312264I have a Boox page (chink android ereader). I really like it and it's endlessly customizable, but it was such a massive pain in the ass getting all the settings to where I like them. The default fonts on the device are some ugly chinese san serif fonts; figuring out how to install my own serif fonts took hours
>>25312884based
Someone finally bothered making a stripped down version of Koreader without the settings hidden in endless menus giving you the actual improvements of Koreader without the endless tinkering without adding bloat or slowdown.https://github.com/AnthonyGress/zen_ui.koplugin
>want to koreader my Kindle>Kindle is too old>would have to gamble and upgrade to some modern firmwareWelp! I am glad I never use the internet and/or go online on mine, so it works for me.
I got pic related a few months ago.I'm afraid of sounding like a shill, but i really like this thing. It can read EPUB and PDF out of the gate so no need to fuck around with koreader, i can transfer files directly from my PC to it without any issues, has removable SD card slot and no DRM like Kobro and Fagmazon.Just don't get the Pro Version, i heard it has an higher DPI but in return it loses the SD card slot and i don't find that to be an tradeoff that is worth it (the pro version isalso 60 bucks higher in price than the normal one here in my thirdie hellhole.)
I'm undecided between the Kobo libra colour and the Boox Go color 7. My main usecase is reading LNs and Manga from my personal Kavita server. I was leaning towards the boox but I'm worried about it being fragile like other people have said and the price. Also, does anyone know if the Kobo can format the text to look like pic rel?
>>25313289This or Simple UI?
>>25313336Where can you even buy pocketbook stuff? I've been trying to find an inkpad lite for sale but every link redirects to something else, even on their official amazon page
>>25312264Tangentially related query. So I mostly read physical books and have for most of my life. When I was a young teenager my Mum gave me her Kindle Paperwhite 6th gen as it had become damaged with two tiny holes in the screen with light shines through. For rarer or expensive books, journal articles etc I use it, but it is always a pain in the arse to find AZW3s or Epubs (which reliably convert to AZW3 with good formatting using Calibre). Most rarer texts I find on libgen welib etc are in PDF form of course, and converting PDFs to AZW3 never truly works. What is the workaround for this?
>>25313918jailbreak and install koreader on it, it works well with pdfs
>>25312264Ive tried to use kindle devices beforeIdk they just dont really do it for meI kinda need to read books physically or i cant focus that well
Brainrot device. Go borrow books from the library.
>>25313724Is reading manga enjoyable on e-readers? I looked into it, but saw that the DPI just isn't that high, which for nice quality scans seems like a waste.
>>25312755>Battery life is great,My kindle is an older paperwhite, so maybe they’ve changed things, but it’s insane to me that the thing can’t just be turned off. Even though it’s asleep, after I spend a month reading physical media I can’t just come back to the kindle because it died in its sleep. It’s not a terrible inconvenience to set it aside for a couple of hours to charge but it could be avoided.
>>25314345I've got no idea, I've used a 10 inch samsung tablet for the past years and it has been perfect, even for reading books with readera. I wanted to switch to an ereader because people keep harping on about how superior ereaders are for these applications so I got curious.
>>25314381Your tablet probably has a higher DPI than any e-reader you can buy, something to be aware of depending on how much you care about sharpness of manga.
>>25313852All KOReader UI plugins are hot garbage and mostly vibe coded. Zen UI and Project Title are the only ones that aren't a complete mess. Project Title has perfected the list view but lacks Author/Series/Tags views. Zen UI has those views and has cleaned up a few other things like page browser and highlight menu, but is still dialing in a decent list item layout. As soon as he does that, I'd consider it 1.0 ready. If you're a Mosaic fag, Zen UI is ready for you already.
>>25314345Even single spread is unusable on less than 8 inch ereaders and bigger is better. 10 is okay but kind of cramped for double spread, 11 is better, like 90% of the size it is supposed to be and around 13 would be about the same as how double spread manga is printed.>>25314407I bought my first 300PPI ereder in 2018.
>>25314369It's just yours I think. I had a kindle oasis or whatever it was called and battery wasn't so good on that, but I've had two paperwhites and they just go forever
>>25314335>Go borrow books from the library.They don't have the books I want
>>25313336Second the recommendation - I got the pro for my birthday, and really enjoy it so far. I especially like the size, as it is smaller than my gf's paper white, it was also much cheaper and is not locked down like amazon's shit. Got koreader for the dark mode pdf capability, tho use the built-in reader for epubs.
>>25312264kobo bw and free .epub files from Anna's has changed my life
>>25315103>11 is betteranything below a 40 is rookie numbers.
>>25314537Project title causes my koreader to crash like crazy. Haven't had a single crash since uninstalling it.
The other day I pulled out my xteink to find out that the some random open sores FW for a fucking glorified ESP32 is already more feature complete than koreader, which still doesn't have basic language support.And yet, people constantly talk about koreader as if it's some massive improvement. I can only assume the "improvement" is some kind of worthless syncing so you can show everyone online how many books you read this week, and not things like formatting support.
>>25313336I bought the Verse Pro Color and I'm starting to hate this device, it's my first e-reader, so I can't say if other models have similar issues, but mine has issues with connecting to PC, sometimes it will show correctly as a device, other times it wont show at all or will appear and disappear after a while, sometimes it resets the app bar or other settings, but the most common and most annoying issue is broken long-press recognition, it loves to threat it as regular tap or,worse as double-tap.
