What's the best book reading device?

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>>61313124
It's for my mom's birthday she likes the things, I love books so I have no idea.

>>61313045
oh, sorry I was a taint. Get her a Kindle. She's a mom and it's no-hassle to get more books and shit on it via amazon.

Kindles idiot-proof for normal consumers. Easy to purchase everything and easy enough to navigate.

>>61313164
Thanks!

>>61313045
>>61313213
one thing i forgot to mention whilst being a taint, make sure to get he back-lit version. the one i have isn't back lit and most times it's fine but when i'm in a place with no ambient lighting I can't read :( the kindles that are backlight aren't LED they are some glow in the dark shit it's nice.

>>61313045

the cheaper you could find (preferably with a plastic screen) wifi is not necessary if you are a piratefag.

>captcha: unipex nigger

>>61313045
Kindle Keyboard is pretty comfy. I don't know if you can anymore, but I remember when it was sold as the Kindle 3G you could "jailbreak" the device and do stuff like put your own wallpapers on. Since you said you're getting it for your mom you could maybe customize it for her.

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>>61313286
>>captcha: unipex nigger

>>61313320

yeah, I found that shit in /diy/. You could use the old captcha and put nigger in half the words.

Oh the memories!

>okha nigger

I'm interested in the Kobo Aura One myself. Mostly for the size. Kindle's all mimic trade paperbacks, the worst cheapest format of book. The Kobo is something like 7.8 inches but still 300 PPI, so it's closer to a hardcover or trade paperback.

>>61313124
Or this.

>>61313124
real books aren't better than an e-reader. fight me.

>>61313045
Iphone

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>>61314476
enough.

beware of amashit readers. can't even change the keyboard layout on them. albeit you rarely use the keyboard on an e-reader, it's still fucking retarded.

>>61313045
a phone with oled display and inverted colors. Nothing better on the market, not even kidding.

>>61313164
I'd have to agree with this. Mine also kept saying how she wanted a kindle, I spent time trying to find a better ebook reader but gave up in the end and bought the kindle. She was overjoyed and reads it almost every day. Personally I find the screen too small

>>61313511
this. kobo are bigger and have better software.

Holy shit how is calibre so fucking retarded?

Why is it so fucking difficult to edit collections on a fucking Kindle without attaching it to an Amazon account?

The fucking cunts at Amazon and the fucking retards who developed Calibre are inbred faggots and I hope they all die in a fucking greasefire.

>>61314417
Hyphenation.

>think about getting a kindle oasis if the prime day price is somewhere south of full retard
>it's $20 more "on sale"

>>61317434
Maybe don't get a kindle

>>61317901
the oasis is literally the worst model currently available

>>61313045
Ebook software developer here. Get a Tablet. Doing things on ebook reader will always be slow and frustrating.

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>>61313045
tfw, no A4 e-book for my pirated pdfs.

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

I prefer the Nook Simple Touch, just because I pirate the shit out of books and load them all onto an SD card, but if your mom isn't that tech-literate, There's nothing wrong with an Amazon Kindle.

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Are either of these good?

any tablet
epub readers like moon+ are great

>>61318008
Try a nook HD+ anon, I have one, it's great for all my pirated pdfs and comics

>>61313045
Paper.

Kobo aura one

>>61317724
not a problem. unlike a real book you don't have to have hyphenation, but if you do most readers have a hyphenation dictionary so words are only cut on syllables.

>>61319867
>not a problem
>you don't have to have hyphenation
Why do you think "real books" are justified?
Because it looks good and helps you focus on the content. How are ebooks different? Are you saying that they don't need hyphenation, because they look good even without it? That's not the case and you know it. Or you're willfully ignorant.

Try it for yourself: open your favorite word processor or page layout application and copy or type out some random text. What you're going to see are fuckhuge spaces in sentences which happen to be hard to break. Even state-of-the-art hyphenation algorithms, like the ones used by LaTeX or Adobe InDesign, don't always produce satisfying results, so they have to break some rules (use different values for min and max allowed space size etc). And you're telling me that "ebooks don't need hyphenation"? You're full of shit.

>>61313045
paper bound together.

i'm between an 8th gen kindle or a kobo aura touch.
How durable are these? Like, will they shit the bed after 2 years?

>mfw no proper electronic notebook to be able to write down notes, read pdfs, and do basic non-video/game stuff
Why? Why?!

>>61314417
>>61313124
quality over quantity my man

>>61313376
never forget anon
calle is a nigger
>captcha: brasil nigger

>>61321304

sometimes you can put double nigger

>captcha: nigger nigger

>>61314417

I can have all my atheist literature in my pocket ready to fight Christians.

Kindle paperwhite is best. Can't go wrong with a amazon case too, most of the others are cheap.

>>61317434
Calibre dev is pajeet

>>61317966
It has good ergs but is massively overpriced

>>61323002
I'm considering this, does anyone know if you can put pirated pdfs on a kindle or does it have to be from the official store? And if the latter, can you easily root it to get around that?

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>tfw used book store downtown closed
>nonfiction textbooks look like ass on 7" eink screens

>>61313045
you just answered your own question

>>61313208
just cause you're a normie retard does not mean the rest of us are

>>61313224
They're front lit with LEDs

>>61317724
Hyphenation works by default for kfx format. There is also a plugin for Calibre that can hypenate an ebook for you. Well, calibre can do everything with an ebook. Try to change a font on you paper book if you don't like it.

>>61313045
eyes

>>61313045
ipad mini 4

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>being literate in 2017

>>61313045
The library, NEET.

I'm still using a Kobo Touch. Runs most things I throw at it, and Calibre converting the rest just fine.

Crazy battery life, decent contrast. Shit's old as hell though.

I can't imagine going for an LCD/LED display.

If you have Prime, Amazon's running ok sales on Kindles right now.

>>61327709
"Runs" being "properly shows all pages without rendering problems"

>>61324125
pdfs aren't great on it, but calibre works well enough for putting anything on, pirated or not

>love being able to look up words I don't know instantly
>but hate the screens and starting at another electronic device
>like to buy books but then they might get taken away since it's a license

>can focus easier on paper books
>can't get taken away from me it censored

Fuck this planet.

>>61327709
How responsive is it? Is it worth getting one for $30? How good would it be for textbooks and pdf's full of large image scans?

>>61313045
Is upgrading from the Paperwhite to the Voyage or Oasis worth it? I'm thinking no.

>>61313045
seriously anon ignore everyone here and just get her a fucking Kindle Paperwhite. Get her black and if you wanna spend more get her a nice official amazon kindle cover for like $40.00 . Or get her the $10 warranty. Or both, I dunno how much you wanna spend.

Everyone knows what a kindle is. If her friends ask her, she'll say it's a kindle. If she says it's a kobo they'll be like what what wtf is that what what

No don't do that to your mom just get her a fucking paperwhite kindle. Idiot proof and glareproof.

Also, I bought one for myself, best idea I've ever had. I didn't want something that I could jailbreak or whatever the fuck, I just wanted a fucking ereader that didn't let me surf the web and let me use the included dictionary. jesus.

KINDLE PAPERWHITE I love mine btw

Also I don't know how but get her calibre or download books for her, they're rather expensive. Or maybe get her kindle unlimited on amazon, although most of their books are complete shit unless she loves reading romance novels

>>61332692
no get her a paperwhite

Fuck amazon. Get a Kobo or a ching-chong android eink.

>>61322987
>I am a retarded that cannot memorize a book like my.opponent,so I need a e reader with a search function.

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Kobo Glo HD, running KSM08 + KOReader, on a 32GB µSD

>300dpi screen
>upgradable internal memory
>backlight
>reads PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, EPUB, DOC, MOBI, and ZIP files.

you don't want anything else anymore.

How are PDF results on the newer readers? I want to buy one, but so many of the books in my collection are old digitised textbooks in PDF which i've heard supposed to be awful.

Have a kobo glo hd since it's been out. Working great for me, one of the best purchase I've ever done. You can mod it (pretty easy, just put some file on that a press some key) and put the night mode which make the background black and text white so that at low light conditions it hurts less your eyes.