e-reader

If you care about freedom or whatever, get the kobo.
The kindle ships with your amazon account programmed into it and shows ads on the lockscreen unless you pay extra.
If you want to buy from amazon get the kindle. If you don't care or just plan to pirate anyways, then it doesn't matter. Calibre will put books onto any device.

i am in europe
was choosing between Tolino vision 4 HD and Aura H2O

but then few days later sister brought me her broken kindle 3 with actual keyboard, broken display

am waiting for aliexpress to get me replacent for 18€
will see if it will work

Just use your phone. Amoled is extremely energy efficient when ready books because like 70% of the pixels in the screen will be off.

>>59438019
oh, and btw, you americans can buy old kindles on ebay for like $20

while we're at it...
what's the best one in 8"+ category?
I dont actually care about anything but reading books and maybe some pdfs, so good screen, good battery and decent backlight is all I need.

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The pictured Kindle is pretty great. Good brightness and build quality. No complaints.

>>59437974
Kobo Glo here, all i do is drag and drop epubs into my device and it just werks.

also has a microsd slot for a total of a shit ton of books

>>59438030
Proving once again that retarded tripfags don't understand

Kindles suck for one huge fucking reason: no ePub support, and for that reason they should never be recommended over a Kobo or even an old Nook or Sony or whatever device.

ePub is just the standard, period, and even though it takes no effort at all to crack mobi encryption and convert to ePub there's really no point to going through that when ePub is just fucking better.

>>59438110

>see pic
>that text of the story
>wtf man

>>59438570
that's not how you greentext

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>>59438511
You clearly don't.

Amoled displays have made e-readers obsolete. Text also looks miles better on a 1440p amoled display than on a super low res kindle.

The eye strain thing you get with shitty IPS displays doesn't happen with amoled displays.

>>59438627

>white text on black background
>hideous

I would love to try programming on a big epaper display.

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>>59438695
You can change the font color, font size, font type, ect. The only requirement is the background to be black to get the most battery life from reading on an amoled display.

app is moon+ reader pro btw, which supports all ebook file formats

>>59438742

NO FUCKING DUH

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>>59438741
Lolno, you'll definitely want an amoled display for that.

>>59438030
Idiot.

>>59438870
see >>59438627

>>59438892
see >>59438870

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>>59438901
Are you just here to jerk me off or are you gonna provide a counter argument to what I presented?

>>59438952
Idiot troll.

>>59438110
What's that excerpt from?

>>59438627
my phone screen is too small, 5.5"
e-ink looks better still, compared to my amoled screen, doesn't matter if it's 1440p
ereader gets way better battery life than my phone, don't know what you're smoking, amoleds refresh 60 times a second, backlighting being turned off for most of the pixels won't change that

why am i responding to a troll
where has my life gone

>>59438627
>Text also looks miles better on a 1440p amoled display than on a super low res kindle.
>his ereader isn't hi-res
lol

>ereaders
Fuck t hat.
I'm already letting my computer and my phone track me, I'll not let my books track me as well.

You'll have to pry my dead trees and my reading lamp from my cold, dead fingers.

>>59439657
Put your phone in airplane mode for 1 hour, clear all active apps, and open a book with the background black. Turn a page every 5 minutes. I guarantee the most you will lose will be like 5% battery life.

You're seriously underestimating how energy efficient phones have become for simple tasks. Also if you can't read a 5.5" screen then you need some glasses m8.

>>59439730
>lose all ability to use your phone for anything other than reading
>conjecture at best
Or I can use both and not have to worry about that
Tell me though, attention whore, have you ever used an eReader? A recent one, mind you, as you're referring to recent phones.

>>59439766
>Tell me though, attention whore, have you ever used an eReader? A recent one, mind you, as you're referring to recent phones.
As a matter of fact I have and I have to admit I was pretty disappointed. Lag is the first and last thing experienced loading shit, text looks low-res, and the piece of shit just feels bulky and a hassle to have around.

>>59439730
Why are you using a tripcode you stupid fucking retard?

No matter how energy efficient your phone is, you won't be able to read books for a week without recharging, some people go outside the house for longer than 20 minutes Anon.

>>59439823
>ohh no, my books are lagging

t. Clark Kent

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>>59438030
>>59438627
>>59438742
>>59438742
>>59438813
>>59438892
>>59438952
>>59439730
>>59439823
neck yourself

>>59437974
I have a standard kindle. Drives me absolutely insane without backlight, so prioritize that feature no matter what route you go. Paperwhite seems to be the go to. I'm considering kobo aura one for 8" manga glory, but I've never seen one in person.

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>>59439826
>Why are you using a tripcode you stupid fucking retard?
What the fuck does this have to do with OP's thread?

>No matter how energy efficient your phone is, you won't be able to read books for a week without recharging
No shit, an Android smartphone is a general purpose device meant to replace an array of things. Having to only recharge this one single device is still way better than having to constantly worry about recharging your camera, portable typewriter, ebook reader, and whatever else is being replaced.

Also phones can be recharged to 60% in 30 minutes. Can your shitty ebook reader do that?

>some people go outside the house for longer than 20 minutes Anon.
To do what, get street cred for reading 50 shades of cocks at your local starbucks?

>>59439846
Excellent contribution to this thread anon.

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>>59437974
Just in case you e-readerfags want to know, there's this dual screen phone. I don't have one but it looks pretty neat.

>>59439895
>>59439912
Calling out newfags is always related, welcome to 4chan.

I like to go camping and do all kinds of trips, the last fucking thing I need is to drain my phones battery for reading when i might need that thing in an emergency.
Reading in nature is comfy, carrying books up a mountain is not.

If you plan on paying for books via the walled garden bookstore, Amazon is by far the best/biggest book store so you should get a Kindle. If you plan on finding books online (usually epub and PDF) then get a Kobo. You can convert Kindle files to epub and vica versa with software but Kobo is really easy to work with, literally drag and drop. You don't even need to make a Kobo account unless you need to update the device I think. Personally I have am Arua HD and it's great, they also have a newer even bigger model nowadays.

Also don't listen to anyone saying anything else is as good as e-ink for reading, ereaders with e-ink screens literally looks exactly like paper and not even AMOLED is anything like it (though AMOLED may be way better then other LCD shit). Just understand that e-ink is ONLY good for reading and nothing else. If you just want to read get an ereader, not a phone or tablet.

>>59439895
>>59438030
>>59438627
>>59438742
>>59438742
>>59438813
>>59438892
>>59438952
>>59439730
>>59439823
>>59439912

How do I permanently ignore this moron? He's like the stupidest motherfucker on /g/. Can mods just ban him plox?

>>59440075
you can filter tripcodes with a third party extension like 4chanx. Don't know if that's the one people use anymore

>>59440113
this

>>59440184
doesn't mean you shouldn't aspire to be less of an idiot

>>59440113
Thanks. Just ignored him through settings.

>Falling for the kindle jew
Get a kobo. Or anything else.

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>>59440023
Alright I guess that's one of the few instances where that shit would be useful. I would still rather just carry a small solar panel battery bank up a mountain desu.

>>59440213
Did you just seriously defend a newfag? Please add me to your filter.

>>59438030
Bro I use my entire iPhone battery on a 5 hour flight reading with the kindle app. A actual kindle device lasts for like 2-3 weeks of heavy reading.

>>59440663
Ok I'm also playing music I guess, but still you get weeks on a kindle battery but only 1-2 days on any type of phone.

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>>59440663
>>59440694
>iphone
Well there's your problem. I used to own a 6+ before it got touch disease btw.

>>59438003
Just don't ever connect to WiFi and run everything through calibre. Boom, no ads

>>59440840
>t. 4 hours SOT