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

>>25312295
I 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

>>25312264
paperwhite

>>25312330
No 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
>>25312337
OP 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?

>>25312343
kindles 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.

>>25312264
just get a kobo and save yourself from a lot of headache
I'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?

>>25312295
I use koreader on my kobo :^)

>>25312830
Calibre 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

>>25312264
I 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

>>25312884
based

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 firmware
Welp! I am glad I never use the internet and/or go online on mine, so it works for me.

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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.)

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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?

>>25313289
This or Simple UI?

>>25313336
Where 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

>>25312264
Tangentially 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?

>>25313918
jailbreak and install koreader on it, it works well with pdfs

>>25312264
Ive tried to use kindle devices before
Idk they just dont really do it for me
I kinda need to read books physically or i cant focus that well

Brainrot device. Go borrow books from the library.

>>25313724
Is 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.

>>25314345
I'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.

>>25314381
Your 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.

>>25313852
All 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.

>>25314345
Even 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.
>>25314407
I bought my first 300PPI ereder in 2018.

>>25314369
It'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

>>25313336
Second 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.

>>25312264
kobo bw and free .epub files from Anna's has changed my life

>>25315103
>11 is better
anything below a 40 is rookie numbers.

>>25314537
Project 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.

>>25313336
I 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.

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>>25313724
>Also, does anyone know if the Kobo can format the text to look like pic rel?
It doesn't support centered text unless the publisher already has it set as such, otherwise it's only flush left alignment or justified.

>>25312264
There are no good ereaders nowadays, they're debunked benefits and failing consumer confidence, so all ereader manufacturers are cutting back on materials and producing garbage to sell to retards. You would do best to buy a superior ereader from before 2011 refurbished, hard to find but worth it.

>>25316435
you can fix this with calibre. the ereader doesn't support it but you can edit the file of book
.

I'm disappointed the flexible page ereader didn't go into production. I dream about an ereader that's similar to the book from Diamond Age, sorta. A physical book with all the ereader pages laid out, turn pages as normal, etc. Reflash it and you've a new book. A small form factor and, say, 300 'pages'.

>>25316462
300 ereaders and some tape outta do it

>>25316447
Do you type on a typewriter from the 1800s too you gay contrarian? I have bought a new one every seven years or so since 12017 and each one is notably better than the last. Every current gen B&W Kindle, Kobo and Pocketbook is better than every ereader from 2011.

>>25316793
I type on good technology that works and will continue to work for generations. Plummeting consumer confidence doesn't lie. Ereaders are getting worse and worse every year and cutting costs to sell what they can offload on idiot shoppers while they still can, but smart consumers are fleeing fast to integrated reading environments on the phone and desktop, or good old fashioned paper books and shunning ereaders. I definitely believe you that of the two ereaders you purchased in 2017 and 2024 that the 2024 ereader was the better between the two, since 2017 was the worst year for ereaders up until then and your 2017 ereader could not have survived in so good a condition as the 2024 ereader is now, which might last another five years if you're lucky, but will you answer the same when your flashy brick craps out on you and you buy another one in three years? You will answer the same when you need to subscribe for annual ereader maintenance just to keep it running in good condition.

>>25316849
>Ereaders are getting worse and worse every year and cutting costs
Such as? As far as I can tell every basic Kindle is better than the previous model apart from losing the buttons. And I can just buy a Pocketbook with Buttons instead which is much better than the Kindles from 2011.

>>25316849
Why are ereader threads always full of dumb fucking idiots like this

>>25316447
I have a Kobo from 2019 that's been great for me but is starting to show its age. So I was looking at their current line recently and had a sense and worry that this might be happening. I noticed that everything is made with recycled materials - how about an "all new materials" option? Annoying that they're pushing annotations and their $70 stylus as well. I don't write on my fiction books because it's stupid to, and I usually read recreational fiction on an ereader. It's just not a plus feature for me, and they could've done some other improvements instead.

Simply not buying a Kindle though, because fuck Amazon.

>>25312295
Came here to write this. Get it, sign in, update once, aeroplane mode, download infinite free books and then use Calibre. I only got mine a few weeks ago but I love it. If it lasts for more than a few years I'll probably just replace it with the exact same model if I can find it.

>>25312343
Buy a Pocketbook. The Verse and Lux 4/Basic Lux 4 are ad free, have a SD card slot and a damn good battery and screen. Also physical buttons.
>>25313336
I bought my Basic Lux 4 for my birthday a month ago and have went through half a dozen books and a ton of short stories and the battery is still at 73% life despite 40+ hours reading in the month. Epub and Mobi work great, have not tried PDF but I want to.

>>25312264
I snagged an used (basically new) 11th Gen Kindle Paperwhite off Amazon for $80. Instantly jailbroke it since the firmware came outdated.

>>25312264
I still use a Kindle Oasis from 2019 or something. I haven't had any major issues with it, but the ecosystem workarounds are enough of an annoyance that I won't get another Kindle. I suppose I'll switch to a Kobo when the next generation of e-ink comes out in a year or two.

>>25316447
>>25316849
fucking retard hipster lmao

Isn't the kobo clara too small?

>>25317165
For what? 6" are fine if you aren't reading PDFs, 8 is fine and 10 is better for PDFs.

>>25317188
I wanted to put it into my ass and have my boyfriend read me a bedtime story from it.

>>25317030
Same device here. It's in the sweet spot where it just got usbc and warm light, but before they retardedly made it larger.

Here's a case tip. Don't let reddit convince you that microfiber lining doesn't scratch. If you have a flip case and your ereader has a flush screen (like paperwhite 10+), any speck of dust or sand that gets into that case will scratch up your screen. So either go bezel or screen protector with flip case. Also, if your flip case has an inner pocket, never stuff any paper into it. Why they sometimes include this now is beyond me.

>e-readers
You didn't read the book

>reading a translation
You didn't read the book

What ereader is good for
>books
>manga
>textbooks
>can load files easily from an sd card

>>25314407
dpi means shit with eink. Its tech is so much more natural that even super low dpi manga will look better on it than on a tablet.

>>25319589
That makes no sense, DPI applies and works in the exact same way. The 'texture' of the image is not related to DPI.

>>25316924
The materials they're using are cheaper and less reliable, the firmware, like Amazon's own website, is vibe coded for the moment and overall garbage. The planned obsolescence is accelerating every year.
See >>25316935
knows what's up.

>>25316927
Because we are right.

>>25317164
I am definitely not a hipster. I read physical books that will outlast me, like everyone besides stupid consumerist idiots with the big tech ring and chain thru their nose are doing. Hipsters have the big tech ring and chain thru their nose as well, just with more rareified firmwares. That is not me.

>>25319742
So buy a Pocketbook instead, or an older Kindle that can be aquired for nearly free. If there was a general downward trend why wouldn't the older models demand a premium like how the 2013 Macbook or Thinkpad T430 does? You are just a whiny faggot.
>>25316935
>I noticed that everything is made with recycled materials
>my kobo neeeds to be first press extra-virgin plastic, I can feeel the difference.
Pocketbook don't do this. You can't perceive the difference between recycled materials or not and it is just a stupid marketing plo

>>25317636
i have old kindles but im thinking about a used scribe for the size for pdfs

>>25319742
I wonder why /lit/ is always full of fake performative "readers" like you.
>muh paperback will outlast you
And I couldn't give less of a fuck. I've read more than a thousand books on my tablet without even paying a cent for them. If they are great enough I'll buy a physical copy.
Not to mention how reading on a ereader is just so much better than reading physical books.

>>25319742
Why are you in a thread about ereaders if you don't like them? Is your life so devoid of human warmth that you need to cling to every bit you can scrounge online by going around acting like a contrarian retard?

>>25317827
people with ereaders read much more than anyone else.

>>25318863
a 10 inch tablet.

>>25319801
Now that makes sense if you read enough fixed layout books. Size is king in that situation. I read mostly fiction and therefore reflowable formats and so I prefer to go a bit smaller.

I've got an 8th Generation Kindle from ten years ago thanks to my dad finding it at Goodwill once. It's served me well, especially since I've got KUAL and KOReader installed, but the age is showing what with its 4GB of storage and barely being able to handle PDFs.

But I'm not gonna buy anything new until someone make a more-than-decent color e-ink eReader. Once they get that technology worked out, I'm all in.

Wish I saw this thread earlier.

I just got a Lenovo Idea Pad because Lenovo was having a decent sale, and I was able to get for $230 (free shipping too).

I want to use it as an ereader for both ebooks and comic books. Also basically my media center (Tired of watching and reading stuff on my phone).

Was this a good purchase for that? The only thing was looking for was Android tablets with the best color and Google told me Samsung tablets, but they were a bit too pricey for me.

>>25323197
Oh, and I might at some point turn it into an emulation mobile gaming handheld, but I probably wouldn't go past fifth generation console games.

>>25323197
No your fucked mate.

>>25323197
certainly it's enough
I've had a worse tablet (samsung tab a9+ or something) for like two years, and it's fine for videos/series/reading
I actually thought about getting a "proper" tablet, but those prices get way too high

BTW, I just bought a kobo libra colour. it's small as fuck

>>25325055
Why color? You get a weird darker screen when reading B&W content and the PPI halves when reading in color.

>>25325118
>>25325055
I wish I could find a B&W one with SD card slot.

>>25325118
Because it was 190€ with a store discount, and the bw version is being scalped online because it isn't produced anymore.
My first impression on it being small is going away, I was used to my 10 tablet, but even a 7 incher is fine for reading.
Definetly too small for manga/comics tho.

>>25325452
>the bw version is being scalped online because it isn't produced anymore.
For how much? Which version exactly?

>>25312830
Nothing has buttons nowadays, so your only option is second hand if that's a deal breaker.

Calibre is for managing your library, it is near-essential if you have any amount of ebooks.

KOReader is an alternative reading software you need to jailbreak your device to install.

>>25325494
>Nothing has buttons nowadays
there are plenty of modern ereaders with buttons

>>25325494
>KOReader is an alternative reading software you need to jailbreak your device to install.
you don't need to jailbreak anything.

>>25313336
I was looking at this one but I couldn't get over how retarded the page turn button placement was.

>>25319769
Yes. Except it will break pretty soon anyway because they were never built to last, and not market priced as they don't have the newly minted scam of currentgen ebook readers where every one goes for the cool vibe of opening brand new packages. That's why they are not too expensive, they are like a used Mercedes Benz actually. I would instead recommend ereading on sturdy pocket devices built in 2000-2004 such as rocket, palm pilot, Nintendo consoles with homebrew ebooks, or manfagging an IBM Thinkpad or a Casio F91 into an ereader. *sips smugly his onions latte*

>>25319904
>I wonder why /lit/ is always full of readers like you rather than subhuman ADHD piracy parasites engaged in killing literature.
If only

>>25319940
I am recommending pre-2016 ereaders instead of new ones. Are you stupid?

>>25326548
>if the older models are better why can they be acquired for almost free why aren't they coveted like 2013 Macbooks or Thinkpad 430s or anything else where the old models are subjectively better?
>because people like new things
These are the people criticizing your writing.

>>25325545
Link?

>>25312264
i love using an e-reader, but an important caveat should be mentioned. if you get a non kindle e-reader, your chances of ever having it repaired are nil. i've been in the situation twice of trying to get one fixed, in both cases there was only one shop within an hour of me that was even willing to look at them, and he couldn't do anything for me. i believe he tried in ernest. he's a native chinese speaker and he claimed to have supply chain connections in china that he was trying to reach, and in the end charged me nothing. i still won't buy a kindle, they once took copies of 1984 from user's devices and even beyond that i don't want to give any money to bezos, but it's something to be aware of.

>>25326675
> if you get a non kindle e-reader, your chances of ever having it repaired are nil.
The tech advances to the point buying a new one every five years or so is worth it to me anyway and they last at least that long but this is definitely true. Keep your shit in a case.

>>25326606
are just page buttons plus some okay or do you want a full button no touchscreen?

>>25326824
Ideally I want this: maximum SD card size, just the basic buttons (page or page+menu), ability to control with a remote, and decent size/resolution because I'm blind. Battery life that lasts forever.

Also I don't want AI, spyware, etc.

I'm not sure if I need a stylus or whatever to highlight things. Feels like I might need it but I'll probably never use it. Is it very useful?

>>25326876
if it wasn't for the size, you might've been okay with a boox go 7.
>stylus
I never used it in years

>>25326878
It says it has the TF card slot and optional stylus, hmm... but it also has Android and some kind of connectivity.

>>25326880
>but it also has Android and some kind of connectivity.
from a security standpoint and risk there is no difference between an android device not receiving updates anymore and a kobo or kidle in the same situation.
If you truly don't want to be spied then you would need to live like a caveman.
Android on an ereader needs more tinkering, but it can use all reading apps from kindle, kobo, libby, mihon and what have you. Self hosting become easier as well since making stuff like kavita work with koreader can be a nightmare.

>>25326886
An Android ereader has 10x if not less battery life than a normal ereader.

>>25326905
not in my experience, usually around 30% less

>>25326675
>what is ifixit
consoomer brainlet or amashill

>>25312264
I got a waterproof kobo and it's great. It's supports every file type and you can easily upload anything onto it. Only problem is organizing files on the kobo is tedious

>>25327174
do you read under water

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>>25327154
thank you anon, very cool!

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so helpful

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this one, which is supposed to be easy to work on, has a page, but no guides whatsover.

>>25327247
yes at the beach

>>25327294
>buys chinkshit
So, retard consoomer. Gotcha

>>25326601
It's because there's a high chance they will break anyway. Kobos / Sony much better than Kindle / Nook and have a high resale price on old models in good condition, but they still aren't reliable enough.

If you have to make the best of a bad situation and use an ereader instead of a phone, you would better go for one from before 2013 that might last long enough to read two hundred ebooks in full instead of definitely just fifty before it bricks itself. Most ereader users prefer hoarding more books than they will ever read, so they should really prefer an ereader with reliable cloud storage so they can painlessly migrate their library to a new device as soon as theirs breaks or slows down when cyber monday comes around.

>>25312264
Kobo Clara BW. The colour fucks with the ink too much.

>>25329168
Has it the ability to make notes and record reading progress? And do you need Calibre, the ugliest program ever devised by a human (?) being?