Hey /lit/ I've been avoiding getting an e-reader for a long time but I'm going to be traveling for pretty much a year in South Asia and was wondering what the best e-reader is?
How many pages/books can they hold?
Can you torrent any e-book onto any model or which models can you add torrents onto?
Are they all backlilt and easy on the eyes?
Anything else I'm forgetting?
I've got a paperwhite. Don't know about other readers so can't really compare but it works.
Only downsides I've notices:
When selecting a word or sentence I find the touch screen is not accurate. Selecting a sentence below/above the one I'm trying to select happens quite often.
Other problem: It resets some of my books to page 1. Only happens to torrented books, not the onces I've bought on amazon. Anyone know how to fix this? It happens when I go back to home menu, or when I havent turned on my device a few days.
The Sony e-readers are generally good. The reason why you don't see them around much is because normies preferred developed "ecosystems" for their e-books; that is, being told what to buy in an all-in-one marketplace with variety and publisher marketing. This is probably why the Kindle is now ubiquitous, even though Sony's tech was just as good if not better. I will answer for my Sony PRS-T2, bought used for 50€ this year.
>How many pages/books can they hold?
1.2 GB of usable internal memory available plus microSD port for additional 32 GB. To give you an idea, I have 150 books on my e-reader in a variety of formats (from massive .pdf textbooks to slim .epubs) and they occupy 700 MB.
>Can you torrent any e-book onto any model or which models can you add torrents onto?
For Sony, yes. Natively it supports .epub, .pdf, and .txt but with calibre (third-party e-book software) you can convert Amazon's proprietary .mobi to .epub. I've never bought an e-book myself but since getting an e-reader, I've purchased more physical books than ever.
>Are they all backlilt and easy on the eyes?
Newer e-readers are pretty much all backlit, but my PRS-T2 is from 2013 and doesn't have it. I use the official Sony cover with a light hanging over the screen, much like one would traditionally use when reading in the dark.
>Anything else I'm forgetting?
Browse the classifieds of whatever your local reselling website is. A lot of people receive e-readers as gifts and never use them, and the kind of person to receive an e-reader as a gift is generally easy to deal with. You'll find everything from the latest Kindle to older Sony's like mine.
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I have a kobo aura but the pdf support is terrible. Is the Sony really capable of handling massive textbooks?
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The pdf support isn't terrible, but it's not good either. I can zoom in and out as well as drag across the screen to see the rest of the page, but it's quite slow. E-ink also causes the screen to constantly flash/refresh black when doing so.
Can one still find a Kindle keyboard with actual complete free 3G?